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Went to a property today and had to cap off an old lead pipe going to an outside basin.
Trouble is, when I turned the water back on by the Stopcock on this picture, packing gland bust and sprayed water.
Couldn't undo the gland nut or the body to repair it and the lead pipe it's attached to is all over the place in terms of diameter.
In theory I'd cut out the old Stopcock, replace a section of pipe with leadlocs and copper pipe with a new stopcock in between.
But
a) aren't leadlocs supposed to be temporary solutions due to corrosion between the lead and copper and
b) how the hell am I going to fit a pair of leadlocks to this crazy bit of pipe?
Trouble is, when I turned the water back on by the Stopcock on this picture, packing gland bust and sprayed water.
Couldn't undo the gland nut or the body to repair it and the lead pipe it's attached to is all over the place in terms of diameter.
In theory I'd cut out the old Stopcock, replace a section of pipe with leadlocs and copper pipe with a new stopcock in between.
But
a) aren't leadlocs supposed to be temporary solutions due to corrosion between the lead and copper and
b) how the hell am I going to fit a pair of leadlocks to this crazy bit of pipe?