I replaced the shut off valve to my water line that leads to the outside tap and now I'm having trouble sweating the new valve. I cleaned and fluxed each connection but its in a somewhat tight spot and its hard to get the torch in to heat the top side of the valve so the soldering didn't take very well and now I have a small leak on both sides of where the valve body joins the copper pipe. I've even tried reheating and adding a little more solder and that didn't work.
What I'm wondering is, would JB Weld work in this situation ? I know it would be very hard to remove the valve if it ever needed repair but I'm replacing the old valve with a Ball valve so that should last quite a long time. Just to make sure the weld compound did not get into the valve I was planning on only putting a small amount on the inside lip of the valve body and then some where the edge of the valve body meets the pipe when its fully seated.
I guess if thats not adviseable I'll have to try sweating the valve in again with solder.
Thanks
What I'm wondering is, would JB Weld work in this situation ? I know it would be very hard to remove the valve if it ever needed repair but I'm replacing the old valve with a Ball valve so that should last quite a long time. Just to make sure the weld compound did not get into the valve I was planning on only putting a small amount on the inside lip of the valve body and then some where the edge of the valve body meets the pipe when its fully seated.
I guess if thats not adviseable I'll have to try sweating the valve in again with solder.
Thanks