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Soldering in tight spaces Aaron Fude 09-11-2008
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Posted by Aaron Fude on September 11, 2008, 4:38 pm


Hi,

In the followling picture, you are looking up at an overhead soffit
where I have to insert tees in the 1/2" copper lines running across
the picture.

http://freeboundaries.com/tight.jpg

Is it doable or is just too tight to undertake given all the
electrical wires, the heater lines and the gas line?

Many thanks in advance,

Aaron

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Posted by Steve on September 11, 2008, 4:53 pm


It looks doable, but if it were me, I'd be using something as a heat shield
to protect the wood from starting a fire, or doing damage to the wiring.
Either use thin sheet metal of some sort, or possibly heavy duty aluminum
foil.


> Hi,
>
> In the followling picture, you are looking up at an overhead soffit
> where I have to insert tees in the 1/2" copper lines running across
> the picture.
>
> http://freeboundaries.com/tight.jpg
>
> Is it doable or is just too tight to undertake given all the
> electrical wires, the heater lines and the gas line?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Aaron



Posted by Steve on September 11, 2008, 5:11 pm


BTW, if you don't want to solder the tee's you can use compression fittings
on hard copper. They're just more expensive than sweat-type fittings.


> It looks doable, but if it were me, I'd be using something as a heat
> shield to protect the wood from starting a fire, or doing damage to the
> wiring. Either use thin sheet metal of some sort, or possibly heavy duty
> aluminum foil.
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> In the followling picture, you are looking up at an overhead soffit
>> where I have to insert tees in the 1/2" copper lines running across
>> the picture.
>>
>> http://freeboundaries.com/tight.jpg
>>
>> Is it doable or is just too tight to undertake given all the
>> electrical wires, the heater lines and the gas line?
>>
>> Many thanks in advance,
>>
>> Aaron
>
>



Posted by Edwin Pawlowski on September 11, 2008, 10:01 pm



>
>> Hi,
>>
>> In the followling picture, you are looking up at an overhead soffit
>> where I have to insert tees in the 1/2" copper lines running across
>> the picture.
>>
>> http://freeboundaries.com/tight.jpg
>>
>> Is it doable or is just too tight to undertake given all the
>> electrical wires, the heater lines and the gas line?
>>
>> Many thanks in advance,
>>
>> Aaron

For a plumber that does that kind of work every day, it is just another job.
He'd put a shield behind the tubing, such as a piece of drywall. If you are
not sure of yourself, it may be safer to call a pro.



Posted by SteveB on September 12, 2008, 1:51 am


I didn't come in on this thread early, but I'll give this advice on 34 years
of welding:

Make a heat shield out of thin metal that you can put behind the pipe. You
will make different U shaped cuts out of it to facilitate putting this
behind pipes. ALWAYS, REPEAT ALWAYS have a fire extinguisher or hose at the
ready, as big fires grow from small ones.

HTH

Steve



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