How To Solder Copper Pipe With A Heat Gun

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How to solder copper pipe with a heat gun. 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. Move the gun around as holding it still in one can cause charring or burning of the wood. A heat gun is a much safer alternative and does not have a dangerous naked flame to come into contact with flammable building materials.

You will need a propane torch with a long hose such as one that you might find in a hardware store for plumbing. Follow along and you will be soldering like a professional in no time. As I was admiring this out of the corner of my eye I thought I noticed the GPU heatpipe sag very very slightly the heat pipe from the CPU plate goes to the fin assembly which also includes the GPU heat pipe which goes to the GPU plate.

Bending plastic pipes - 200 to 300C. Apply Flux to Pipe. Often a brass fitting is much thicker than the copper pipe it joins to.

Heat the fluxed copper touching the solder on the hot copper until it. Place the tip of the solder at the point where the solder iron tip and part you are soldering meet. Measure cut ream clean flux and add heat.

You might consider practicing a little on some scrap pipe and a. Most heat guns will have a built in safety thermal heat switch which will terminate the device if a dangerous heat level is achieved. When youre done soldering dissolve the plug.

Heat the Fitting to Sweat the Copper Pipe. Soldering a joint in pipes that contain even tiny amounts of water is nearly impossible. Both can reach 400 degrees in temperature.