Desolder with water in pipes, can it be done?

There is no problem, I'm not still stuck there scratching my head about it :LOL: I drilled the hole yesterday took it off and replaced it with a t-piece, it was only there for one day so I could have the water back on overnight, and I decided if it wasn't going anywhere now it would probably survive the night (it did).

I'm not having any problem with it, it's not the first stop end I've soldered, normally I jam waterpump pliers against them to hold it in place, just forgot to do it this time (though until this thread didn't know it was because the air expanded).

The thread is only still alive because people keep offering me useful stuff I didn't know, like you can put a plastic push fitting onto a live pipe! I've had to work on a live pipe before and if I knew you could do that it would have saved buying a pipe freezing aerosol.

The problem is long ago solved, thanks for all the help everyone, I learned lots of useful things here.

P.S. Plumbing is fascinating, think I made the wrong career choice!
 
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Hahaha. You are not getting off that lightly! You must now be referred to this thread:

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LOL. Hey, they are going about it all wrong though you should choose a job because it's interesting not because of the money.

The kick I've been getting out of completed plumbing works when I turn it all on, nothing leaks... well it's a lot like the kick I get from a completed IT system that works like it should, except complex IT systems take months to put together, sometimes years - plumbing offers a better feel good factor since there's more "ahh job well done" moments.

If I wanted to be rich, I'd be a banker :LOL:
 
Show me an 'IT system' that works reliably year after year... I suppose it would if you never updated anything!
 
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Show me an 'IT system' that works reliably year after year... I suppose it would if you never updated anything!

It depends what you need it to do. I've built many servers that never have reliability issues themselves, some of them running years after I left the company exactly how I left them... it's more about being careful what you put on it!

But then again, I walk around all day long marveling at how rubbish most IT systems are, how much money they cost when I could do it for a 10th of the price and still earn major money myself, if only they would believe me :LOL: (I do mean government, blue chip, etc contracts here).

Expect it's the same for plumbers though, minus the price bit, you'd walk around all the time looking at the pipes thinking, "what clown did that join, he was obviously in a hurry to get home" and so on :D
 
Actually my first career was in IT, as a hardware engineer - desoldering large chips from motherboards & logic analysers etc, but now that all the circuitry is disposable and made cheaply in far East, the nature of the work turned 'soft' so to speak, and I preferred to use my energies in the physical rather than the virtual plane.
 

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