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Discuss Soldered Joints Rough / Grainy Finish at top of Joint (Lead free Solder & Mapp) in the Plumbing Jobs | The Job-board area at PlumbersForums.net
2 great mindsNeeds to be unleaded on mains water
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As far as I’m aware mate. You haven’t been able to use leaded solder on any pipework connected to your drinking water since the mid 1980’s you should not be using that on pipework in you house apart from heating or gas pipework.
I use the fernox stuff. It’s good. Screwfix can be quite cheap on it also.
Haven't read all the posts but the way I solder...
Clean pipes and fittings.
Add flux to fitting (flux to only pipe if gas)
15mm heat the fitting
Once upto temp tap solder on backside of fitting so isn't visible, always work from top to bottom literally only a few mm of solder needed. You will find a bottom joint will need hardly any solder due to solder running down from top joint(people will disagree...)
22mm same process although I rotate torch back and forth to disperse heat evenly around fitting
Turbo extreme torch with mapp gas
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