Lo and behold, they ARE for real! Just in case the gas-proof teflon tape doesn't work out...
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I've had a homeowner nightmare yesterday & the day before to deal with. A leak in the main water into the house. One of the fittings that the man who built my house installed beFORE 1974, finally decided to develop an age/stress leak after all these years. It was not much, but HAD to be dealt with. It was enough overnight to make me step onto water when I went down the stairs to my ground level Monday morning.
Had the water shut off at the street. Then it was take it all apart, unsweat & unscrew the bad stuff, research the best stuff, go GET all the good new stuff & get home. Plan & visualize more overnight Monday & then yesterday, did the whole job by 3PM (I work slow & careful now) & then it was too late to get the water turned back on. So I envisioned a micro leak (or something worse) all night. Water Co. came at 8:30 this morning, turned the water back on & it was Perfect. I never have been so relieved in my whole life because this kind of thing can be VERY! expensive if it gets real serious. It now should last way longer than the 50 years of the original one; it's ALL brass now. And copper.
I've done a lot of various kinds of plumbing in my 83 years & this job worried me the most.
Now back on topic. Can you find me a 90 degree one of these? I will gladly pay you a princely sum & you can finally buy that pale yellow 356 Bathtub you've lusted after since you were knee-high to a grasshopper. Or is it a DB3? Austin Healey 3000?
Anyway. I want 5/16" all the way (petcock to fuel filter to carb fuel inlet) with no bodges.
PS: I LOVE soldering copper.
PPS: I know these fittings were installed beFORE 1974 because 1974 was engraved into the wet concrete of the 2nd pour which was the garage level pour & is 6" below that 1st pour.. The 1st pour is where all the water & electricity originate from for the whole house & ground floor apartment & garage. The water heater (which I also installed new in 2010) is also in that small room which I call "The Boiler Room". The house is very well thought out. 32 years. Like the blink of an eye. Lordy - errant in