Plumbing 101, Pex Tools, Pipe, & Fittings!

[Music] Oh [Music] what's up everybody again here are damage there makers and in this video we are going to talk about text type text is the new kind of popular type that you're seeing a lot in new construction even commercial construction out is it's basically a plastic tubing it's a cross-linked polyethylene and it's a flexible tubing but it's very fast to install there are a multitude of now several different colors you can get at color coded for hot cold actually this would be hot cold and then just kind of a neutral white which is universal you either way I wouldn't be surprised if they've even got purple nowadays but I'm not sure for reclaimed water systems but Tex is a really unique type of tubing it tends to resist freeze breakage just because it is a plastic and can expand a little bit um very fast I know there are some people that complain about the fact that they think that it kind of has a plastic case it doesn't go away so there are some drawbacks to it but as far as installation speed it's very fast very durable and it's pretty simple I mean for a complete installation I basically need a cutter a tubing cutter of some sort I like these kind of chopping style here I don't the spinning tubular cutters with a cutting wheel they don't cut that well on text tubing and then also a hacksaw you've got a lot of little fibers and things like that I mean you can cut it with a hacksaw if you need to but you have to go through and clean up the end of the tube pretty well and make sure that you don't have a lot of particles of plastic in your pipes and then the next tool that you would need would be a crimp crimper and this one here is set for a half inch and 3/4 inch text crimp rings it's got a really good positive final point where you know that you've actually crimped the fitting there's a different style of ring which I'll show you here in a minute which requires a different style tool and this one just kind of clamps on to the crimp ring and it's a stainless steel one and it basically goes until it unwashed itself so there's this style here and there's frozen cons which is why I have those vials and then for the first large crimp ring if you ever need to take apart a system you can cut the fittings up and then this tool here will actually cut those copper crimp rings off and allow you to reuse the fittings which is nice because the fittings are probably the most expensive part of the system so let's a remove the camera here and I'll show you some of the fittings and then we will show the actual assembly and this is Lenten leak of some of these fittings here there's kind of an array of different types of fittings out there this is only a sample of one but we've got adapters and then we've got standard fittings adapters are useful because sometimes we are going from say a threaded pipe where we need to go into an existing fitting say it's a galvanized fitting and we want to go to I forget the name of this pipe this is the old stuff that um this gray pipe here this was used in a lot of mobile homes and there was a big lawsuit because it was so unreliable in here I just happened to have a small section at three-quarter inch tubing left over so I kept that for that reason so if we want to adapt to that we can there's also this one's a sharkbite this one's going into three-quarter inch CPVC and the neat thing about these types of fittings here as you can see we've got a plastic 'el and we've got a copper one we've got a brass one these will go from PEX tubing to copper or CPVC which looks a lot like PVC pipe but it's a chlorinated polyvinyl chloride which doesn't leach out bad stuff when it gets hot so you can use that for potable water where it does get heated so we can adapt to different types of pipe from extra pecks two different types of hype we've also got this is just a made-up adapter where I've gone from this is a glued see PVC fitting it has an moulded in copper female adapter and then I've threaded in an adapter for text this here can be replaced by any one of these three fittings so this is kind of not not going to be as required it's a little bit bulkier a little bit more expensive but honestly in my opinion that's a little bit more reliable because you have a good glue fitting here and you have a crank text fitting here so that's just my opinion this particular fitting here if we look close as the coupling for half-inch but it's pecs on one side and then it's the this gray type of type on this side here this is half inch this is three-quarter but we would put that gray pipe on this that side it's got a lot more rings for the tubing to bite into and then pecks over on this side and because the different wall thicknesses we do have two different styles of crimp rings for this so yeah so that's a different different adapter there and these probably would work some of the early types of textile fittings this is a let see high tech kill tech something like that as you can see the early types of tubing this is actually shielded if it has a thin layer of aluminum and it's got plastic on either side so there's an aluminum tube encased in plastic and this has a galvanized metal crimp ring on it and these are three types of fittings from that they actually had two o-rings on each barbed fitting that would go inside there plastic tubing so these are used to my knowledge anymore just because it isn't needed they've got better technology better plastic better reliability in terms like that so they don't need those o-rings so that was an early style we also have different types of plastic types of fittings that you can get that will take the place of the brass fittings I prefer the brass ones personally there is a different type of tubing out there this one as you can see this is 3/4 this is half but the wall thickness is much much thicker on this and it's kind of a translucent color this type of fitting doesn't require a crimp ring and they have a tool that goes inside and it expands the tubing and stretches it out and then you once it's stretched out you quickly slip it over the fitting and then it shrinks down but you've also taken a clear it looks like a thin piece of this tubing and short or a small sleeve kind of about the size of this and you've also expanded that you slide it over this portion of the pipe and as a pipe and that ring contract back down to their original size they're kind of elastic it then makes a connection milwaukee they're m12 and m18 series of cordless tools they have a lot of power tools that do this kind of work and very very specialized tools anyways as far as crimp rings ways to connect this and secure our tubing down on the outsides of these fittings there are three main types there's a solid ring a metal ring this is just a coated copper ring this is just a plain copper ring this is actually a Tech's brand and these are just rings that get squashed down and crimped over the tubing there's a stainless steel ring here and this one here I'll show you how how they work and how these types of rings differ these are these are nice in some situations but they're more difficult to get off your tubing if you want to reuse your fitting and then there's this type of ring which is basically that same style of crimp ring but it's got this collar on the end of it that keeps it from sliding too far over the pipe using the tool to crimp with this can be a little bit challenging especially in tight confined areas where you're trying to hold this on the pipe in the right spot this holds itself in the right spot so it's a lot easier they call it a one-hand ring so we want to set up some tubing to where I can start crimping some fittings together and we'll show you that we're going to just connect several different types of fittings together to show you so I've got this one piece kind of held in the clamp loosely a little bit to loosely there we go little better so for cutting I just use this this cutter here and just stick it in try and get it as square as you can and very very simple to cut the larger style of executing you can get I believe text up to two-inch at least last time I saw so first we'll use this type of slip ring fitting which is the most simple it just slides over the tubing and then we use in this case we'll use a coupling we slide that in and we slide this crimp ring back over to here approximately so we're trying to Center it we've got our crimpers and we need to put those crimpers on and this is where it gets a little tricky because that ring wants to slip around and if you're working inside of a wall or vertically it becomes even more challenging so we just get this crimper on there we push nice stiff until that crimper snaps shut and that's why it has these big nubs here because if it didn't have those you'd smash your knuckles pretty badly so what that crimper is done is it has put a little nub there and an up there and it's compressed this ring down on the fitting so if we want to now show this type of crimp ring here this one's different than this one because this one here is I was crimping down I could have slid back and forth on the pipe if I was in a vertical position it would have been even more challenging this one goes over the tubing and it has that red red edge actually stops that crimp ring from new so I can very easily slide that on no it's far enough on push my tubing all the way on to the fitting and that crimp ring is not going anywhere so when I go to crimp I'm not concerned about that moving around my crimp it there we go so there's our fitting already now let's say we want to now let's see here so many choices let's say let's look at one of these sharkbite tech fittings here okay cut our tubing and we want to install our sharkbite fitting we need to take one of these plastic barrels or your sleeves and put it inside of our teaming because our tubing can actually collapse a little bit on us and be a little bit too big or shrink down because their barbs inside of here that require the tubing to maintain its position so we just slide it on bottom it out and that's our connection we're good so we'll do one more chunk of pipe let's slide our sleeve in there and we'll just push it in nice and straight bottom doubt we're good I'm going to cut off a little bit of this here and then we're going to adapt over to a CPVC adapter and we're going to use our stainless steel ring here so you put a ring on let's put our PVC adapter on then we slide our rim back this ring the stainless steel is nice because if I'm right up against a stud or I'm in a very confined space I can get this plier right over it and that plier actually holds that holds that clamp in its nose and I'll show you here in a second shrimp it until it unlocks and there you go so the jaw on this has a very small opening here and this will take half inch all the way through think one inch but this is a 3/4 inch so basically these clamps have a little square or rectangular crimped zone and I can hold that in there this is nice when you're up against stud or you're in a very confined space because these jaws can get up into that area and the handles are back out of the way whereas with these pliers the jaws have to open up quite a ways and the handle then we've got a massive spanner create 18 inches wide and you've got to get your hands in there and do that so that stainless steel crimper is really nice but as I said a little bit more challenging to remove these crimps here so to show you the removal of these crimps we're going to take our tubing cutter we're going to come back so we know we're far enough back that we're not going to cut into the brass because that would kind of wrecker to the cutter so I've cut it back and as you can see the brass is back in there another eighth of an inch so I'm going to actually cut off just a sliver try and keep that tubing tight so it doesn't twist and get a really crooked cut but now I'm pretty close to the fitting so that's where this this tool comes in and it's basically got a rod and then a blade and so what we do is we take that rod we stick it into the fitting we see that blade is actually extending up along that crimp ring and we just push down on it until it snaps and there's an adjustment nut here so you don't over cut or undercut I then twist it spin it around and you can see here we've got a pretty good cut it actually goes just into the tubing just a little bit so we're going to spin it around a little bit all you need to do is crimp it you don't need to actually cut through all the way on the second side that crimp just bends it open and gets it out of the way and then sometimes these will slide off other times you need to use a utility knife or something but if you can see it's spinning free now so that's how you can remove the fitting from existing tubing and reuse it for these here this ring and I have a tool somewhere I'm not sure let me see if I can find that here I'll show you how to take these out well I'm not able to find my half-inch which is what I was going to show you but I do have a three quarter inch and as you can see it's pretty pretty basic it's just horse shoe thing but I do have a 3/4 fitting and do a sharkbite style thing and what you can do is you can just slide it over the pipe it snaps on and this will go over copper CPVC or tacks and the goal is to push me on this ring that extends past the brass fitting so you pull down on that and then this will probably be next to impossible to do on film but we'll go to try anyway so as I push down it has a little bit of an elastic kind of springing this to it now this might be way more challenging than I thought on film so I've got a pair of channellocks to help there we go so just had to wait a little bit so that releases the barbs on the inside and basically pushes them down so they don't continue to dig into the pipe you can see where the pipes kind of scarred up as I pulled it off and here's that interior ring or a ferrule that keeps the pipe from collapsing so you can reuse this and you can reuse this and this is what's garbage now it's a couple cents worth of pipe and that's about it I hope this short video helped give you a little bit of an understanding of text pipe and the types of fittings and methods of attaching it and also disassembling it there are out there as far as text goes like I said it's really fast it's really easy the tubing and the crimp rings themselves are rather inexpensive there's a lot less risk of fire and things like that related to installing a text system it's great for temporary work especially if you're doing renovation remodel work and you need to move a kitchen or a water heater or something like that it's an awesome way to really quickly temp in and reliably type in water supplies to different facilities as far as the tools they're not that expensive compared to a torch a tubing cutter deburring stuff all the consumables that go with soldering and it's very very easy to learn there's a little bit of strength that you have to have with your hands so if you don't have a lot of hand strength maybe it's not quite the way to go or else have somebody else come along and they can Punk snap the fittings and crimp them for you but um the one main thing that I've learned when I was a plumber we didn't use pecs because pecs didn't exist back in the late 90s to any real extent it was more the early 2000s that it started to come into play you can get your tubing in straight lengths you go to Home Depot or Lowe's you can find them in five foot 10 foot lengths you go to professional plumbing supply and you'll find them in 20 foot lengths and they're straight I would highly recommend getting the straight section of tubing you can get it in hundred foot coils but that stuff wants to stay coiled and when you're trying to run it and snake it under a floor in an attic in a wall wherever your constantly going to be fighting this tubing that wants to go back to a coiled shape and it's very very difficult to get them lined up straight and try and get the fittings you know to go in because the pipes always constantly trying to curl off so I recommend getting straight sections don't get the big coils unless for some reason you know that you've got a really really really long stretch and you got a lot of room to play with and you're only putting a few fittings in so yeah that's that's about it for text tubing so be sure to give me a thumbs up if you like this video leave a comment if you have any comments or questions and subscribe that really helps out and we appreciate all the views until next time this is Dan the dancer makers bye

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Length: 21min 1sec (1261 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 11 2017