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JEof45231 (OH)
I just moved into a new house with an existing plumbing issue I'm hoping someone can help me with.
Situation: I have an existing 1/2" copper water line going straight along a concrete basement wall and then angling up and sweated to the back end of a frostfree hose bib ( FFHB ) (rather than screwed to an adapter). Apparently, a hose was left attached to the FFHB over winter and the FFHB's stem housing split. Now if one turns on the valve, water floods the wall and comes out in the basement.
In order to repair the FFHB I am going to have to cut out the end of the copper pipe and remove the broken FFHB. In the process of replacing the FFHB with a new one (that will screw into a 1/2" female adapter rather than be sweated to the bare copper) I intend to install a 1/2" inline ball valve. This is where my question arises.
Since I plan on soldering the replacement piping, it would seem that I have two choices. One is to solder a new inline valve in place, but I'm concerned that my lack of practice might lead me to overheat the valve during the installation process, thus ruining it. The second option, which I'm much more comfortable with, would be to sweat a 1/2" male adapter onto the cut copper line and then screw on a 1/2" inline valve. But here's my dilemma:
How do I predetermine what rotational angle I sweat the adapter on the pipe so that later, when I screw the valve onto the adapter, the handle ends up on the side of the pipe away from the wall, and not facing the wall, or facing down, or facing up?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Jonathan
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george 7941 (Canada)
Easy. After sweating the adapter on, apply some pipe dope on to the adapter and thread the valve on. If it ends up facing the wrong way, unscrew it and apply two or three turns of thick teflon tape over the dope. With the tape, the valve will not need as many turns before it is tight enough to be leak free. You might have to repeat this a couple of times before you get the desired alignment of the valve.
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JEof45231 (OH)
Thank You ! I'll try that.
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