If I cannot tighten a compression joint quite enough..

[WaterTight]

On 3/4 pipe, with a new 3/4 olive (brass, not copper alas) under a bath, on the further away of the two feeds, with bugger all space between wall, pipes and bath, using grips, tap spanner, adjustables, jaw dropper, no matter how many blood vessels I burst, are you guys all going to hand on heart tell me I'm just a weakling? Or is it something that can get the best of some of you now and then?

Going back to solder it tomorrow. Didn't have a 3/4 to 22 endfeed coupler on me. I give in.

 

[lame plumber]

pfft try it with a shattered wrist

I seem to have some nice long spanners nowadays, leverage rules the day

 

[WaterTight]

Would it help?

 

[WaterTight]

I'll do it if it would help.

 

[Rickster123]

You're just a weakling WT!:46:

 

[lame plumber]

or you could work on the one furthest away first

 

[Best]

A few things to make it easier, - 1, use paste as it lubricates the joint, 2, use as good a brass fitting as you can get, 3, do the back pipe to bath taps first, with the front pipe out, 4, maybe try another fitting (with same depth) to compress the olive first. - A brass elbow will help with a piece of copper pipe tightened into other end. 5, use a big spanner for leverage. You just need to have patience and move spanner in small movements. 6, try Footprints grips for awkward spots

 

[Best]

Or, 7, get a girl to help you.

 

[WaterTight]

A brass elbow will help with a piece of copper pipe tightened into other end.

that's actually genius.

 

[WaterTight]

oh and i did work on the furthest away first. and then when it kept weeping removed the closer piping to regain access. i may have the body of a weak and fragile woman but i'm not a complete loon.

 

[newcastle phill]

Limp wristed southener pfffft [emoji90]

 

[REDSAW]

youve cross threaded it havn't you?!!!!
push fit, get the money and go already!

 

[newcastle phill]

Try getting rid of your current wrench snigger [emoji12]

 

[Best]

that's actually genius.

It is indeed! Makes life so easy because you only need to use one spanner and hold the pipe with other hand. Only needs a short bit of pipe of maybe less than a foot.
Good thing about compressing the olive first is you can then check that it is fully compressed. Just need to put another smear of paste on the olives and after hand tightening the fitting just give the nuts literally a nip up with spanner.

 

[WaterTight]

didn't have a 3/4 to 22 push fit either. not that i'd have risked it. there was so much scale on the pipe from a leak that looked like it went on for 10 yrs before sealing it self it took a lot of cleaning with strips and torch/wire wool to get enough pipe clean for a compression joint.

 

[lame plumber]

Or, 7, get a girl to help you.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm nice idea, somewhere to rest your head/

 

[Best]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm nice idea, somewhere to rest your head/

She could save you overusing your wrist.

 

[jonnyswamp]

She could save you overusing your wrist.

:tounge_smile:

 

[rpm]

there was so much scale on the pipe from a leak that looked like it went on for 10 yrs before sealing it self it took a lot of cleaning with strips and torch/wire wool to get enough pipe clean for a compression joint.

Could it be not you and the new olive then? Some other reason causing it to leak for years.

 

[Toxic Ted]

Limp wristed southener pfffft [emoji90]

you missed out the shandy drinking bit!

 

[WaterTight]

Could it be not you and the new olive then? Some other reason causing it to leak for years.

looked like it had been leaking from tap connector down both pipes and I cut it lower down but you never know. in between cleaning it i stuck a torch behind there and filmed it with my phone from behind it and then watched video back to see if it was clean enough yet. so could easily be a bit that isn't perfectly straight / round and i wouldn't be able to tell.

bath taps can be a massive pain.