Okay only thing I want to know is that tool to link the pipes a real thing, because damn I want that.
I mean I see large versions used to link gasl ines and huge water mains, but never handheld versions.
Is it not just a heat gun with a shaped nose? It’ll soften and expand the pipe slightly before fitting them together, where they’ll cool and constrict into place
Heat guns are also used to make plastics such as PVC piping pliable for the purposes of bending
There are types of pex fittings that you use a special tool to stretch sort of like they show, but they appear to be using grey pvc electrical conduit which would be glued (and not plumbing) so who knows what’s going on.
Okay only thing I want to know is that tool to link the pipes a real thing, because damn I want that. I mean I see large versions used to link gasl ines and huge water mains, but never handheld versions.
Is it not just a heat gun with a shaped nose? It’ll soften and expand the pipe slightly before fitting them together, where they’ll cool and constrict into place
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_gun
There are types of pex fittings that you use a special tool to stretch sort of like they show, but they appear to be using grey pvc electrical conduit which would be glued (and not plumbing) so who knows what’s going on.
Yeah I thought that was part of the gag using gray pipe. But I had people like this working on my plumbing and had to fire their ass.
I couldn’t find anything, but I’m a bit confused as it looks like the pipes are plastic. Maybe it’s a thing common in Europe.
In the UK at least I think “push-to-fit” is the standard these days for plastic water pipes and doesn’t require heating.
https://www.screwfix.com/c/heating-plumbing/pipe-fittings/cat831504?pipefittingsystem=push_fit