DRussell
New Member
I am fixing an angle stop valve that was professionally installed about four years ago. The stem broke when I turned it on after having it off during vacation. This is a cold water supply valve to a washing machine. I wish these valves were made better, but I know that our hard water is partly to blame. The valve is compression-fit to the copper pipe. The stub sticks out about 1 & 1/4" from the wall, but more than half of it is compressed by the fitting (see shiny part on photo), rendering it too small in diameter to solder. I would need to cut off the compressed part and sweat a new coupling and short copper pipe on it, as I have done with other valves in the house. But this one is the shortest stub yet. Is there any way I would not need to cut away the wall and solder behind the wall's outer surface?