oldstuff
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Free 1/8" Copper Steam Pipe | johnreid wrote: | I dont find 1/8" pipe all that easy to find, I think that the next time I find myself at a regular plumbing supply house I might have to investigate that.
Compression fittings do an excellent job of sealing too. |
Piece of cake, John!
Earlier today, I noticed a pretty coil of the stuff near the bottom of a used hot water
heater left for scrap behind my friend's plumbing heating and cooling business.
I extracted the wire that was inside the 1/8" copper tube thermocouple pretty easily
and wound up with over 3 feet of usable copper steam pipe!
Straighten the coil best you can, snip the probe off, undo the crimp behind the fitting,
then grab the nub and pull!
I had tools to disconnect it, but if you snip 'n go using wire cutters you can still
get the wire out. File or bench grind the the tube to expose the wire, pry it up
to get a purchase on it and pull it out!
Update:
Some hot water heaters yield more tubing than others. One gave me three feet,
while the latest one only netted about ten inches.
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xlchainsaw
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thanks must keep a eye out. just thought ! fridges and aircons they have small tubing as well 
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johnreid
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Wow, I will keep my eyes open for some of that.
Look what I got for free, its brass!
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xlchainsaw
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wow  brass wire !!! if you dont want it . i sure could do with it! great for oxy welding ect.
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johnreid
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I think I will make Railings, and inlays for some accessory bases with it.
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xlchainsaw
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| johnreid wrote: | | I think I will make Railings, and inlays for some accessory bases with it. |
some people have all the luck! im down to using my brass scraps for welding  liz and i are off to a recycle centre tomorrow. its run by the local council . they employ people to scrounge the dump and sell it to the public. it provides employment so i cant complain. ( yes right  )
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oldstuff
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John is that a coil of tubing or solid wire?
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Kevin Klein
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I used 1/16" welding rod for railings on the last project,it solders real nice. I think it was copper coated steel or something. Brazing rod will work too.
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johnreid
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Solid wire
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oldstuff
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I was going to toss the probe but I saw a nice brass shaft bushing hiding in there...
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johnreid
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Waste not want not
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Stilldrillin
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Thanks Chuck! 
I won this 1/8" copper tubing, in among some "Mamod piping" a while ago.
I thought the steel wire inside was to stop crimping during bending. (Draw it out afterwards..... It does work, on short lengths).
NOW I know where it came from/ what it`s for....... 
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