This is a basic plumbing question.
I do my soldering/sweating in my shop (uh, workbench in my garage) as much as possible and then carry the finished pieces to where they need to go. Thus this question is about reheating and then twisting a fitting that never carried any water.
By mistake I sweated a 3/4 tee onto 3/4 pipe so that it pointed 180 degrees in the wrong direction. It was part of a fairly complex piece of work (about 5 90’s) so that I was reluctant to start over. That wouldn't have happened if I had dry fitted the pieces first but carrying that much "semi-finished work" would have meant a lot of things would have gone out of alignment.
The question: I reheated the tee and then rotated it 180 degrees and then applied a bit more solder. I couldn’t tel if the solder got sucked into the fitting.
Is this a safe operation or should I have disassembled and recleaned and put on a new tee? Will I likely have problems a few years from now?
I still have the opportunity to disassemble that particular piece but, of course, I'd rather not.
I do my soldering/sweating in my shop (uh, workbench in my garage) as much as possible and then carry the finished pieces to where they need to go. Thus this question is about reheating and then twisting a fitting that never carried any water.
By mistake I sweated a 3/4 tee onto 3/4 pipe so that it pointed 180 degrees in the wrong direction. It was part of a fairly complex piece of work (about 5 90’s) so that I was reluctant to start over. That wouldn't have happened if I had dry fitted the pieces first but carrying that much "semi-finished work" would have meant a lot of things would have gone out of alignment.
The question: I reheated the tee and then rotated it 180 degrees and then applied a bit more solder. I couldn’t tel if the solder got sucked into the fitting.
Is this a safe operation or should I have disassembled and recleaned and put on a new tee? Will I likely have problems a few years from now?
I still have the opportunity to disassemble that particular piece but, of course, I'd rather not.