Cleaning the pipe and fitting. Remove flame from fitting.

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The longer the cone the hotter the flame.

How to solder copper pipes. Typically it s easiest to clean flux and assemble the entire run of copper and then begin soldering copper pipe joints in place all at once opening photo. The first step to assembling copper pipe is to cut your pipe to length. Rub down the outside of the pipe with a rag.

Its purpose is to remove oxides from the metal and ensure good copper solder adhesion. Spread soldering flux on the outside of the pipe and the inside of the fitting. Clean the inside of the fitting with a wire brush.

Prepwork is critical to ensuring a good soldered joint. Touch the solder to the pipe. Flux is a paste that you ll find next to the solder at the hardware store.

How to solder copper pipe step 1. Prepare inside of fitting. Apply flux to pipe.

Heat the fitting to sweat the copper pipe. How to solder copper pipe step 1. Clean outside of pipe.

Here are the tools. This video will explain to you in details how to solder copper the correct way so you can do it yourself and not have to pay an expensive plumber and save tons of. Fire up your torch and adjust the flame so the blue cone in the center is about 1 1 4 in.

The second critical preparation step is the application of flux.