Hot air gun for capillary joints?

[dilalio]

Here you go mate, reckon this is right up your street.

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&r...K8GZ5C&usg=AFQjCNGLgHUMg4TR1eNdQrMN6VYEuAm2kw

Hey! JP... don't give that link out! There's only 13 left in stock and that's the only place I can get it from!

 

[just pumps]

Hey! JP... don't give that link out! There's only 13 left in stock and that's the only place I can get it from!

Err, sorry bud, really didn`t realise. Was only trying to help the poor guy, honest.

 

[dilalio]

Piece 'o' pizz with one of these...

 

[just pumps]

Can you still get wicks?

 

[dilalio]

Can you still get wicks?

Nah! Wickes sold out... you have to go to B&Q

 

[just pumps]

Nah! Wickes sold out... you have to go to B&Q

 

[Dan Robinson]

Piece 'o' pizz with one of these...

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I've got one of those somewhere

 

[dilalio]

I've got one of those somewhere

I've got a heat gun somewhere

 

[qwertyb]

You checked a gas leak with a naked flame? Now who's a muppet?



Headaches from a gas leak? WTF are you on about?


If a heat gun is going to generate enough heat to melt solder, then it is going to do the same harm as a blow torch. If you are too unskilled to use a blow torch without setting fire to the surrounding areas (gas leak detection notwithstanding ) then you should probably give up.



There's every need. We can't offer you a solution if we can't see the problem. What you deem necessary information and what a professional deems necessary information are very different things.



Two words..... Capillary Action.

But then you're obviously such a clever clogs you know all about that and have never ever ever had it happen to you.




This usually happens when a space cadet doesn't get the answer they were hoping for but persists to pretend to know better.


Now... I politely suggest you go and learn to use a blow lamp properly.

Where did I say I checked for a gas leak with a naked flame. Suggest you learn to read.
Headaches from a gas leak? Yes. Quite common. I suspect I can safely say I've spent more time in gas contaminated atmospheres than the rest of you put together, and yes, it'll give you a headache.
I said nothing about setting fire to anything though there's clearly a certainty of scorch.
Capillary action? Yes know all about that. It isn't plumbers magic.
If you read the question, and I'm assuming you can read, there's absolutely no need for a photo to answer it.

 

[Dan Robinson]

How else did you get a nice wee flame on a coupling?

 

[qwertyb]

Here you go mate, reckon this is right up your street.

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&r...K8GZ5C&usg=AFQjCNGLgHUMg4TR1eNdQrMN6VYEuAm2kw

Don't know how good this brand is but, in any case, these materials, which tend to be polymer based, probably won't work on anything that isn't straight tube, due to lack of conformity

I remember using http://www.loctite.co.uk/metal-filled-compounds-4485.htm about 40 years ago to repair an exhaust manifold that had crumbled around a stud. 120.000 miles later, the repair was still good.

Doubtless, there would be scepticism among some on here towards the idea of bonding pipe using a polymer, but then, who would have thought about plastic pipe, or push fit connections?

 

[qwertyb]

How else did you get a nice wee flame on a coupling?

Please learn to read. It's not difficult. What I wrote was "I found the first on the first system I had - a nice wee flame on a coupling". In simple terms, I opened the cabinet, and found a flame on coupling. Coupling loose, gas leak, gas ignited, flame. Simple.

 

[qwertyb]

I think so. I have a degree in it.



I imagine you have. You have to live with the sound of your voice.


Yet another tea boy from an engineering firm of some kind that thinks he knows it all and doesn't like to be told he is a useless [insert appropriate phallic noun here].

Bit long in the tooth for a tea boy. Spent most of my working life around gas at up to around 1000psi, so had plenty of opportunity to learn a wee bit about it.
As for knowing it all, I certainly know a hell of a lot, but unlike some on here, have always thought that the more I learn, the less I know.

 

[gasbanni]

Get some strait sockets and a new corner put a new piece in with the elbow already soldered,
In other words make a new corner joint and two legs and solder in a new piece.