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Posted by David Nebenzahl on December 22, 2006, 9:40 pm
Mark spake thus:
>
>>Ref; a recent thread advocating the advantages of PEX in relation to
>>replacing galvanized.
>>
>>Some homes in this area (municipal water supply) of similar age to this
>>house (36 years) have experienced pinhole leaks in their (generally
>>half inch) copper plumbing, within the house.
>
> I'd heard that the pin-hole leaks in copper pipe was caused by too much flux
> being allowed to remain on the pipe after sweating. Don't know how much
> truth there is to that.
I wouldn't think so, since any flux remaining would have long ago been
flushed away by the water. Sounds like an urban legend to me.
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