Heat Gun Soldering Copper Pipe
Stop the trickle of water with a pipe plug.
Heat gun soldering copper pipe. Blow torches do a wonderful job of soldering copper pipes but they are also good at setting fire to your home. Another great tool to consider using for soldering copper pipe is a propane torch. Most of the heat from the torch goes into turning the water to steam so the copper wont get hot enough to melt the solder.
You will need a propane torch with a long hose such as one that you might find in a hardware store for plumbing. Types of Heat Guns and Soldering Irons Electric heat gun. Testing to solder a copper pipe with heat gun instead of torch.
Here are the tools that you may need for this method. Designed for the us space program. When you use a propane torch you must give the heat a chance to soak into the copper pipe connection which can take anywhere from 30 to 60 seconds.
In this video a Dewalt heat gun is used to join two pieces of copper pipe using a solder ring fitting. No heat or solder is required to create a permanent leak-proof bond. I wouldnt say never use a heat gun for soldering pipes together.
Soldering a joint in pipes that contain even tiny amounts of water is nearly impossible. In this video we show you how to solder copper pipe fittings with a heat gun. Copper brass steel and stainless steel can be braised together though you certainly need to have some experience - you might be able to clump it into a mess that holds on your first try if you are just joining copper to copper but anything else is out of the question.
Soldering copper pipes brazing and heating frozen pipes and rusted nuts. A heat gun is a much safer alternative and does not have a dangerous naked flame to come into contact with flammable building materials. It takes a little longer to get the pipes up to temperature but the result is the same and you arent working near any potentially explosive gases.