Ideal amount of solder in a joint

[Stanios]

If you are like me and find it hard to grasp how much solder is enough watch this video which also made me realise I have been mispronouncing the very word all these years!

[video=youtube;kTak6vAaSjY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTak6vAaSjY[/video]

 

[Darren Jackson]

So it's pronounced sodder then! 31 yrs down the drain blinking college lectures told me wrong...next they'll be telling me it's zee not zed...he..he..

 

[Chalked]

Didn't know they were capilry fittings

 

[newcastle phill]

Ive never managed to do a joint with soda.

But have done quite a few joints with soda and gin [emoji106]

 

[joni os]

At local A&E unit, Iodine gets various pronunciations but Hunt is always pronounced with a "C".

 

[newcastle phill]

Chunt ???

 

[Last Plumber]

Well the Kermit voice over artist's lamp is too hot and he sodders from the top is all i've learnt.

I was always taught to sodder from the bottom of a fitting so you can see the capillary action has worked correctly.

Did anyone else get taught that ?

 

[Stanios]

Well the Kermit voice over artist's lamp is too hot and he sodders from the top is all i've learnt.

I was always taught to sodder from the bottom of a fitting so you can see the capillary action has worked correctly.

Did anyone else get taught that ?

As an apprentice my job was to wire wool the **** out of every single soldered fitting, never got as far as soddering anything myself though

 

[newcastle phill]

Yeh ive heard from the bottom too.
Tbh if the heat is right it hardly matters as a lot of the time we all solder from whatever angle we can get in from lol

 

[Last Plumber]

Yeh ive heard from the bottom too.
Tbh if the heat is right it hardly matters as a lot of the time we all solder from whatever angle we can get in from lol

So true but if I were demonstrating it on a video and in a vice I might add that bit in for the sake of it.

 

[Captain.rick]

:smile: hahaha sodder

 

[oz-plumber]

Chunt ???

No Phill,

I think Joni meant to remove the 'H' entirely.

Or.. if you prefer to keep it in ... it's a silent 'H'

 

[Stigster]

Yeh ive heard from the bottom too.
Tbh if the heat is right it hardly matters as a lot of the time we all solder from whatever angle we can get in from lol

I'll add solder on the opposite side to which I apply the heat as most situations allow. Where you can't do that you just know by experience that you've done it right anyway.

I am often amazed at the song and dance some apprentices (and a few plumbers) make when soldering small bore fittings. They wave the torch around, move around the fitting changing their stance, adding too much solder then going back at it with the blowlamp and adding a bit more solder then it goes black. I forgot to say they've put so much flux on the pipe and in the fitting (don't flux the fittings!) that there is flux pouring out and dripping on the floor followed by blobs of solder.

I have to unteach and retrain them so often. It's possible to teach an 8 year old child to solder properly so I don't understand why people make such a meal of it.

Lastly my pet hate is watching people add more solder when they are using a Yorkshire fitting. If you are doing that then why even bother spending more money on Yorkshires when you are endfeeding anyway? It makes no sense.

 

[Stigster]

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[newcastle phill]

Silly chunt lol...

Wow what a smelly Chunt you have...

Could have lots of fun with that