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AAaaahhhhh. The Bonding Question Again.

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Do we main bond up an installation if a new gas boiler is to be installed when the old one is removed?


What are extraneous-conductive-parts, and what are not?


Now, to put a spanner into the works, do any issues arise if the copper pipes are "bonded" with solderless copper bonding?


Otto von Guericke would have known this for sure.


Over to you?


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    Chris Pearson:




    Zoomup:

    Now, to put a spanner into the works, do any issues arise if the copper pipes are "bonded" with solderless copper bonding?



    Leaks I should think. Who in his (or her) right mind would glue water pipes together? ?

     




    Back in the 1970’s I was doing some plumbing in a large country house that st one time had belonged to the Players who made cigarettes, then had been a boarding school and during the war a military hospital, before becoming a family home again.


    Under the floors were a ridiculous amount of pipes from when it had been a school and hospital with communal washrooms and bathrooms. There were lead gas pipes that distributed gas from an acetylene bank that had been by the back door, as well as lead, copper, cash iron and black mild steel with all sorts of fittings.


    However the section I was working on was thick copper pipe with gunmetal fittings screwed together with a gene thread. I asked the customer for the key to his workshop to let myself in to use the bench grinder to thin a piece of the thick down so I could solder a modern copper end feed coupler onto it to use so an adapter.


    The customer was really impressed and said the previous guy who had worked on the plumbing in the house had glued fittings on with Araldite. There were several places where this had been done and I ended up with the job of making adapters yo replace those as well.


    Andy Betteridge 

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    Chris Pearson:




    Zoomup:

    Now, to put a spanner into the works, do any issues arise if the copper pipes are "bonded" with solderless copper bonding?



    Leaks I should think. Who in his (or her) right mind would glue water pipes together? ?

     




    Back in the 1970’s I was doing some plumbing in a large country house that st one time had belonged to the Players who made cigarettes, then had been a boarding school and during the war a military hospital, before becoming a family home again.


    Under the floors were a ridiculous amount of pipes from when it had been a school and hospital with communal washrooms and bathrooms. There were lead gas pipes that distributed gas from an acetylene bank that had been by the back door, as well as lead, copper, cash iron and black mild steel with all sorts of fittings.


    However the section I was working on was thick copper pipe with gunmetal fittings screwed together with a gene thread. I asked the customer for the key to his workshop to let myself in to use the bench grinder to thin a piece of the thick down so I could solder a modern copper end feed coupler onto it to use so an adapter.


    The customer was really impressed and said the previous guy who had worked on the plumbing in the house had glued fittings on with Araldite. There were several places where this had been done and I ended up with the job of making adapters yo replace those as well.


    Andy Betteridge 

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