kevinm3574
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When wanting to reuse a copper connection, what's the most effective way to remove the old solder and when is it considered "removed"? I've got what should be a fairly simple (hah!) job that consists of removing flexible copper pipe to be replaced with std copper pipe and elbows (restricted water flow problem) and the nipple that the flexible copper is connected to is to short to allow me to cut it back to clean copper so I need to sweat the flexible pipe off of the nipple, clean 'er up, and then connect the new copper to it. I've done some experimenting with soldering copper to fittings and then sweating them off and then trying to remove the existing solder but can never seem to get all of the old solder off to get back to the copper base. Do I have to is my question and, if not, to what extent must I remove the old solder?
Thanks.
Kevin
Thanks.
Kevin