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Anyone familiar with this method of joining copper water lines? I just discovered their web site, www.propresssystem.com and they claim that it is accepted by all U.S. plumbing codes. It looks to be a lot faster than sweating, maybe a bit more expensive for tools and materials. There must be a catch. Why isn’t everyone doing it?
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Interesting. Once you get into the swing of things, soldering copper pipe isn't all that slow - but it certainly is more than the 4 seconds as claimed for this system. There are some places where I have soldered connections that these jaws definitely would not fit, however.
Since they appear to be manufactured and/or distributed by Rigid, I wonder if that means we will soon be seeing them promoted at Home Depot?
*There was a bit on this stuff on a recent 'This Old House'. The first thing I noticed was that it was a 'one shot deal' in that once you made the connection it was there for life, and heaven help you if you had to change something, unlike sweated fittings which can be unsoldered easily. Plus the tools cost a fortune and the fittings seem to cost 10X what regular ones do. If this doesn't catch on you end up with a hideously expensive toolset that is pretty much useless for anything.Mind you, there are some situations where flame is less than appreciated, so it might be a viable rental. I don't find soldering that much of a problem and not that time consuming considering the amount of time spend on measuring, cutting, and so on.
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Anyone familiar with this method of joining copper water lines? I just discovered their web site, http://www.propresssystem.com and they claim that it is accepted by all U.S. plumbing codes. It looks to be a lot faster than sweating, maybe a bit more expensive for tools and materials. There must be a catch. Why isn't everyone doing it?