[VAC] Re: plumbing

[Bob Kiger <myairstream@xxxxxxxx>]

What sort of Airstream do you have . . . year and
model.
The leak you describe is not uncommon and is quite fixable.  You
will hear several techniques but here is what worked for me.  

Remove sink and turn on water (low pressure).  With a flashlight try
to spot the leaking pipe.  My guess is that it will be the faucet
with water running down the pipe back toward the stove.

If you can't spot the leak.  Remove the stove.  Turn off the
gas first.  Now you can observe the pipe all the way to the head
wall.  If there are any brass fittings between the faucet they
should noted since they may be the only fittings that can be used to join
the old swelled tubing with new flex pipe.

I would replace the faucet with a newer model and use the fixtures under
to make the join.  Don't take the fixture off . . . slide it down
the pipe past the leak.  If it will not go a large rattail file can
increase it's inside diameter.  It will eventually go.

Then go to your hardware store and get the needed length of flex pipe to
go to your new faucet.  Use Marine Goop to assure the seal on the
"kluged" pipe fitting.  Tighten the fitting well. 
You can also use new brass fittings but you will have to do more filing
because their inside diameter is smaller than the old airstreams. 
You may also have problems saving your old faucet even if you tried it
with new fittings that have been filed out because the faucet fittings
bind after years against soggy galley counter.

Hope this gives you a beginning.  I would not just cap your
water.
Bob