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Soldering Preparation

This video discusses the materials and preparation involved in soldering. It goes over specific types of copper tubing and how to correctly measure and cut copper tubing and common pitfalls to avoid...

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Fluxing & Soldering Techniques

This video goes over fluxing and soldering technique. This includes a description of certain flux and how to apply. The second part of the video displays how to properly apply heat and solder to a...

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Lap Seam, Soldered

This video shows how to create a lap seam, which is recommended when the copper sheet is too thick to form a flat lock seam, or when shapes make it impossible to form a flat lock seam.

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Tinning: Soldering Coppers and Sheet Copper

This video describes how to tin copper and the sheet you'd like to solder. It goes through cleaning, marking, flux and solder.

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Introduce Soldering Equipment

The following segment describes the tools and basic preparation steps necessary for soldering copper sheet materials. These steps are required for most of the application techniques employed to...

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Solderless Fittings

This video covers all types of solderless fittings. Mainly, it covers push and press-connect fittings. It shows proper preparation for push-connect fittings and how to use the tools associated with...

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Vertical Soldering, Lap Seam (Part 2, Stitching and Inspection)

This video is a continuation of the first part where tacking and soldering was explained in detail. This part covers different types of stitches, such as a butterfly stitch, and displays step-by-step...

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Vertical Soldering, Lap Seam (Part 1, Tacking and Soldering)

This video describes a technique for soldering sheet copper lap seams oriented vertically, or with a slope over 3:12.

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Brazing Copper Tube

This video describes how to properly braze copper tube. Copper Development Association's Piping Specialist, Harold Moret, explains when brazing is appropriate and the different applications that use...

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Flaring

This is a continuation from the video of how to bend copper tubing. This video covers flaring for copper tubing, when you don't want to use an open flame when joining. Copper Development Association's...

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Bending Copper Tube

This video teaches you how to bend copper tube. Copper Development Association's Piping Applications Specialist, Harold Moret, shows the procedure to bend copper tube properly with a lever-type hand...

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Standing Seam

This video describes how to make a double-lock standing seam with a seaming anvil and a hammer. It is arguably the most time-proven type of roof panel seam. All the necessary tools and equipment are...

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Flat Seam, Soldered

This video describes how to make flat seam soldered joint. It covers technique applicable to soldering flat seams at a maximum of 3:12 slope. It shows the appropriate preparation and tools that are...

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