Bob L
New Member
Attached is a photo from the inside of a bathroom vanity cabinet, showing a copper pipe and an attached valve.
I want to remove the valve from the copper pipe, leaving just the bare copper pipe. There is a nut on the copper pipe that joins the copper pipe to the valve. Am I right in thinking that between the valve and the nut there is some kind of compression seal that fits over the pipe so that when the nut is tightened, the seal is compressed and prevents leaking ?
So to achieve a bare copper pipe I would then unscrew the nut, pull the valve off, pull the nut (and compression washer) off the copper pipe.
And to put it back together I would simply reverse the steps. So I would not have to do any soldering.
Will greatly appreciate confirmation (or denial) that this is a correct understanding.
I want to remove the valve from the copper pipe, leaving just the bare copper pipe. There is a nut on the copper pipe that joins the copper pipe to the valve. Am I right in thinking that between the valve and the nut there is some kind of compression seal that fits over the pipe so that when the nut is tightened, the seal is compressed and prevents leaking ?
So to achieve a bare copper pipe I would then unscrew the nut, pull the valve off, pull the nut (and compression washer) off the copper pipe.
And to put it back together I would simply reverse the steps. So I would not have to do any soldering.
Will greatly appreciate confirmation (or denial) that this is a correct understanding.