Interesting TOH Classic plumbing episode

As a follow up to the Scary TOH Classic plumbing episode I thought I would mention something else on the same Manchester, MA project that came up 2-3 episodes later. The project was splitting crews to get ready for the cold weather and one crew was weatherizing the home for warmth while the other landscaped.
Anyway, Richard brought in a damaged HW air-handler for heating the place temporarily while the inside crews works. He chose the air-handler unit because it would introduce moisture nor residue by using an LP or kerosene based heating setup. He fastened some quick-connects, which he got damaged for $100, and connected it to a PEX-based manifold that stemmed from the basement HW boiler.
But, he decided to show Norm (or was it Steve) what was going on in the basement. And along the same lines as crimping PEX with stainless-steel collars, he showed a power-crimper (sounded like a circular or reciprocating saw) than crimped copper connectors for a fluxless, solderless copper plumbing solution. Hahahaha Wow, so much for the power of the flame in copper plumbing!!!
But this power-crimper reminded me of one used by a crew from my electrical coop company a couple of summers ago when my next door neighbor’s service entrance cable burned out a couple of feet outside the transformer cabinet outside. I remember that tool as they used it to crimp some rather large aluminum couplers to metalically join two sections of 00 service entrance cables.
Well, the same tool seemed to be used to couple two sections of copper pipe with a 3-4″ long collar/coupler that was dry-crimped. Well, I am not sure this was scary or interesting, but this can be discussed as a follow-up to the other thread. Cheers!
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I saw one of those crimpers somewhere but I can't remember where. I know it was around 2000.00. I'll stick to solder and acetylene.
Headstong, I'll take on anyone!
You know, Roger Cook on that show and on that project mentioned something about his $1400 diamond concrete and stone cutter. It took him at most ten minutes to cut about 40-50 feet of thick outdoor tile that otherwise would have taken someone all day using a circular saw.
Now, take one inexperienced plumber and provide them with dummy-proof tools and maybe they'll actually not have a repeat visit. But, I bet that power crimper can't get everywhere a torch can get, either.
Copper crimper.
well that would be Propress¯ by Rigid¯
http://www.ridgid.com/Tools/Pressing-Technology/index.htm
& the fittings are by Nibco¯
http://www.nibco.com/cms.do?id=1568