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Water dribble when soldering

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I'm a complete notice and I working on my heatings motorised valves on my S plan system. I was modifying the system to add an arrester. Long story short, I made a bodge of the soldering due to persistent tiny water dribbling in the pipe being soldered which I overlooked despite the system being drained. How does one get around this? I heard of people using bread but that won't work here I won't be able to retrieve anything from the pipe afterwards.
 
Using bread is fine as it just dissolves in the water when filling so you dont need to remove. You don’t need t use a full loaf though just enough to soak it up to stop the drip. But failing that as already stated use compression
 
Or press fit.

Or get a small bore hose, insert in to pipe and blow/suck the dribble, then solder quick before it comes back.

Or open a drain off/compression near by to divert the drip.
 

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