{"id":30017,"date":"2017-11-06T02:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=30017"},"modified":"2017-11-03T16:25:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T23:25:18","slug":"shark-bite-plumbing-fittings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/shark-bite-plumbing-fittings\/","title":{"rendered":"Shark Bite Plumbing Fittings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My water heater decided that it no longer wanted to keep the hot water inside, but rather squirt it out through the top of the cold water inlet area. I live pretty firmly in DIY-land, but usually stay away from plumbing projects because I, for some reason, cannot sweat a pipe to save my life. I&#8217;ve watched videos galore, and practiced &#8211; it just escapes me for some reason. My wife and I picked up the replacement water heater yesterday. I drained the old water heater, heated the old joints, removed the couplings (it had been replaced before by the previous owner) and pulled out the old monster. I put the new one in place, cut and dry-fitted my pipes, took them apart, cleaned and fluxed the joints, and tried to sweat them. After they cooled off, they (of course) leaked. Tried again &#8211; same result. One more time, and then I went upstairs to watch some YouTube videos. I found an old NY plumber who talked about these <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2zckNYl\">Shark Bite connectors<\/a>, but he was going to teach the &#8220;right&#8221; way of sweating the pipes rather than the fast and easy way (my ears perked up). These cost a little more than the copper fittings, but I brought them home, cut out the work that I had been attempting and cut 2 new pieces of pipe to length. I deburred all the ends, lined everything up and snap-snap-snap everything was coupled and watertight in under 5 minutes. It&#8217;s only day 2, but I haven&#8217;t found a drip yet &#8211; I&#8217;ve been checking at least every couple of hours because plumbing can&#8217;t be that easy. Feel free to tear me up in the comments, but I&#8217;m retiring my torch, flux and solder for these things for any plumbing project I have going forward.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Push-to-connect fittings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30017"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30025,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30017\/revisions\/30025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}