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To answer Jimbo's question about how I revealed the joint, it was pretty simple: I cut the tube a quarter inch longer than the fitting, then cut the fitting with the tube inside it in half,...

Hello. While in the middle of a small plumbing change job in my house, feelling pretty good about my soldering skills, I decided just for fun to tear apart a joint I had just made to see if it was as...

As always, contributors of Teerylove.com, thanks for the advice. One last question on this drain of mine, and then I'll leave you alone for a while: What's going to happen once I remove the two cast...

Thanks for the reply, HJ and Plumber1. As you had suspected, the straight piece is cracked... I had just hoped that the crack would start low enough that I could amputate the straight piece and still...

Filipo,

At the end of the PDF file at the link below which I saw just today, you'll see some of the tooling and methods that are used to install fittings with compression-gasket joints. I hope it...

OK. My turn with a cast iron and ABS problem. Its pretty simple, really. I've got this cast iron Y piece into which a kitchen drain is connected. The problem is that the 2" ABS that feeds into it (on...

Look at this link (http://www.tamparubber.com/mainthd.htm). In short, they say:

"For stubborn to seal threads, apply a normal coating of thread paste followed by a normal layer of thread tape."
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Hello again. I was recently told that to solve a problem of mine, I should use teflon tape as well as teflon paste together, on the same NPT fitting. That kind of sounded strange to me, so I figured...

Ok. So I finished installing a number of valves for my shower remodel project, feeling pretty proud of myself until I turned on the water. The 4 NPT joints on two specific valves (but none of the...