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	How do I sweat a ball-valve into my copper plumbing without damaging the valve seal? I bought a ball valve that is designed to be sweat (soldered) into my copper plumbing, but won’t the heat from the soldering process damage the seal around the ball valve? How does one avoid that? 2 Responses to “How do I sweat a ball-valve into my copper plumbing without damaging the valve seal?” Sherlyn Mcintosh Said: Suggest to take the guts out of the valve when soldering,if possible. Another idea is to wrap the valve with a very wet rag Paulina Monk Said: Open the valve & work quickly & it will be fine. Don’t wrap a wet rag as suggested above. It will never get hot enough to melt solder if it’s wet. Leave a Reply You must be logged in to post a comment. Posted in Questions Similar Posts you may be interested in ... Plumber? @ moms for the holidays…she has 1/2inch PVC from water heater to lavatory, hot and cold, both 1/2 inch pvc fittings to valves are cross threaded, instead of replacing the PVC fittings I want to sweat copper from water heater, and cold feed to lavatory what fitting do I need to go from PVC to Why are water storage tanks made out of stainless steel yet the plumbing in the home is copper? If you are trying to buy a metal tank for storing potable water then it will almost alway be made out of stainless steel. However, when it comes to plumbing with metal you are normally going to see copper. As a side not it seems like breweries as well as whiskey, scotch and bourbon distilleries What is the Easiest way for me to install a plumbing stack? I bought this house about a year ago. I never realized nor did my dumb *&^^&& house inspector ($538) that there was no main plumbing stack. There is however a black plastic (not PVC) pipe that runs into the attic and I am assuming that it goes to the roof vent. I still get this How do I keep sediment from clogging my plumbing fixtures? I have fairly new copper plumbing and a two year old tankless water heater and I am having a problem with a sediment containing black, white and grey particals cloging my shower head and my bath tub filler. I even had to clean out the hot valve itself on the bath tub. I have allready Copper plumbing I have a friend who has a home that has copper plumbing. The residence was built in 1988, and she was told by a neighbor that copper plumbing is bad and has to be removed/replaced in order to keep the value of the home for resale. This doesn’t seem to make sense and the home