Re: [SilverStreak] Pex Job and Propane Lights

["Carolyn Frederick" <hown@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Are you another lady doing this stuff?  Gosh I thought I was the only woman, 
hanging doors, doing insulation, etc, you mean there is another of us out 
there?  Hey I can finish drywall too.

Carolyn

----- Original Message ----- 

> Mitch,
>
> I don't know the answers to most of your questions, but I've just started
> working on my water lines after trying to collect lots of info.  I thought 
> I was
> going to do crimp Pex.  Mostly because I thought that was the only way.
> However, the standard tools are HUGE, and inside my trailer, everywhere I
> need to make a connection is in a pretty small space.  I bought a small
> crimp tool that works with a vise grip -- but I think even that will be 
> difficult in
> the spaces.
>
> As I wrote earlier today, I decided to go with the Watts Quick Connect.  I
> hooked up a little test just to make sure when I started fitting things 
> together
> for real, I'd know whether I was capable of pushing the parts together, 
> and
> 2) I'd know what a good fit felt like.
>
> I'm pleased.  The pieces go together quite easily.  I used plumbers sand
> paper to sand the paint off the existing copper pipe where the connection
> was to be made.  The pieces go together easily and can be removed and
> reused.  Thus if I use a part to test (like a cap), I can just remove it 
> once I
> know the line holds pressures, and continue working.  No special tools
> except for cutting the pex and cutting the copper.
>
> The Watts line of quick connectors advertises that you can rotate the 
> fitting
> even with a line under pressure attached, and I found that to be true. 
> They
> also say they won't come loose due to vibration.  I hope that's true as 
> well.  I
> found the parts at my local Ace.  Lowes seems to carry them too, but I'm 
> not
> sure how much variety they carry.
>
> Bev