[Shop-talk] more water heater

[Mullen, Tim (IS)]

>>   Okay, what's the bread trick?
>
> When you have a valve that leaks a little so you keep getting water
> dribbling down into the joint you're trying to solder, take some white

> bread and smush it up into the line to plug it, then solder up the
pipe.
>
> The white bread will disolve / wash away when the water is turned back
on
>full.

By the way, I learned this trick on this mailing list a long time ago.
It's amazing what you can learn here.  :)

Tim Mullen

Chantilly, VA