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Essential Plumbing Tools for Welding and Soldering

Learn about the tools used in plumbing for welding and soldering tasks, including blow torches, flux, pipe bending tools, and more. Understand the fire triangle concept and how oxy-acetylene welding works. Discover a variety of tools used in plumbing installations and maintenance. Explore gauges and meters for water flow, pressure, temperature differentials, and more.

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Essential Plumbing Tools for Welding and Soldering

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  1. PLUMBING TOOLS

  2. PLUMBING TOOLS Blow torches are used to heat metal during soldering. Gas can be supplied via a portable, reusable gas bottle.

  3. PLUMBING TOOLS Above: portable blow torch with disposable gas cylinder.

  4. PLUMBING TOOLS Flux is applied to prevent oxidisation of the surfaces of connectors.

  5. PLUMBING TOOLS Pipe work is heated using a blow lamp. Solder is melted to a liquid with the blow lamp, and is used to weld connectors and pipes together. Once cooled, the solder returns to a solid, forming a watertight seal.

  6. PLUMBING TOOLS Left: oxy-acetylene bottles. One bottle contains oxygen, the other contains acetylene, which is a fuel source. The gasses inside the cylinders are compressed and are in liquid form: once the gasses leave the cylinder, they become gas and are mixed to form a flammable mixture.

  7. PLUMBING TOOLS THE FIRE TRIANGLE HEAT FUEL OXYGEN In order for anything to burn, 3 elements, as above, need to be in place. Oxy-acetylene welding & burning provides these elements.

  8. Top left: oxy-acetylene torch just after ignition: bottom left: torch at full temperature. Below: welding lead using oxy-acetylene torch. PLUMBING TOOLS

  9. PLUMBING TOOLS Pipes are bent to shape using pipe bending tools. The series of images shown next show pipe being bent.

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  12. PLUMBING TOOLS Above: a selection of tools commonly used in plumbing. These are labelled on the following slide.

  13. PLUMBING TOOLS Grips Dust Pan & Brush Junior Hacksaw Plumb / string line Hacksaw Gas Bottles

  14. PLUMBING TOOLS Adjustable spanner being used to tighten a radiator valve.

  15. PLUMBING TOOLS Grips being used to tighten a sink waste pipe.

  16. PLUMBING TOOLS A weir flow gauge is used to determine the rate of water flow.

  17. PLUMBING TOOLS Hammer.

  18. PLUMBING TOOLS Above: slotted screwdriver. Below: Phillips screwdriver

  19. PLUMBING TOOLS Differential temperature gauge, used to measure difference in temperature between the flow and return of a combination boiler .

  20. PLUMBING TOOLS A manometer, used to measure pressure.

  21. PLUMBING TOOLS Test & training mock up of a typical domestic hot water system.

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