Gonna try this / been fighting flux brush shedding for 45+ yrs! Can't hurt and might help a lot. I will tell you the junk sold today is 100x worse than the flux brushes in the 70s when I started
I use Stay Clean flux in a plastic bottle that has a brush built into the inside of the lid. I've actually been refilling the same bottle and I've never had any bristles come off the brush in years.
@@Got2Learn Link? No. Call me old fashioned but I buy reputable products from local supply houses, not Amazon. Any supply house that I've ever been to sells three types of flux: Stay Clean, Bridget, and Oatey. In my region hardly anyone uses Oatey flux because it solidifies in the winter.
I'm pretty sure the heat from your torch is going to turn that into dust. Better to remove yes but it will be gone long before you even get to proper heat.
You have to get the pice of bristle out of the flux and off of the pipe or fitting before soldering. I just change flux brushes if the brush is falling apart.
Ah s***, 9 times out of 10 I just use my finger. I only do a couple joints a year, so I just go to the garage grab my torch, flux, solder and get it done
Mine typically get burnt up. I don't know if I'm wrong for doing this, but I usually wipe the joints with the brush after saudering. It acts the same as if wiping a caulk joint. Again, maybe I've been completely wrong for doing this all these years. I haven't had any call backs for leaks though.
Well, I think it would still hapen eventually. The glue will get hard and where the bristle meets the glue, it will eventually wear out and get loose. But still this trick is probably increasing the lifespan of the brush!
I was thinking the same thing I cleaned my joints and used as little Flux as possible because the Flux can cause it not to adhere just as bad as that bristle
Here in South Korea, we stopped using copper long time ago. Instead we use stainless steel pipe with press joints or electrofusion hdpe pipes. Far superior.
@@jamesbrother9597 yeah burning the bristles is the reality. I'm a commercial plumber I do not carry Krazy glue on me haha. My copper is not leaking from a bristle T.T
"This will never happen," you say. So are you using a brush with only a _ring_ of bristles, or is the glue also binding the inner bristles with the rest of the bristles, somehow all to the ring of metal around the outside only? Seems short-sighted.
you could not be more wrong and ignorant of this. these bruses are DESIGNED that if a hair from them gets in there, it not only melts but but the melted goo will be foreed out... TRY IT.. i have 10 times for a test and NONE of them failed. This is why its VERY important to use these brushes and NOT things like other hair brushes or rags...
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Gonna try this / been fighting flux brush shedding for 45+ yrs! Can't hurt and might help a lot. I will tell you the junk sold today is 100x worse than the flux brushes in the 70s when I started
Do you have children sir?
I’m a plumber 22 years experience
Use you’re old toothbrushes
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@@skullfucker7000 how low can you get
@@maduwauchiwa7380 I can get much lower
Good tip. I also cut half the bristles off in length which helps and makes it easier to apply more precisely
Good trick, never thought of that!!
i'm gonna try both suggested techniques, yours and @kangaroodod@@Got2Learn
Good tip. I used to squeeze the base with channel locks to tighten the bristles
Yeah that's what I do, its just as good, and faster.
Over here in Germany we basically never solder our joints at all.
Pretty brilliant. I've always just crimped the end as tight as I can before using a new one, but it flares them out which glue won't do.
Very good idea.
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I use Stay Clean flux in a plastic bottle that has a brush built into the inside of the lid. I've actually been refilling the same bottle and I've never had any bristles come off the brush in years.
Nice, you have a link to that?
Are the bristles for your lid brush crimped in, part of a plastic wand or glued?
@@Got2Learn Link? No. Call me old fashioned but I buy reputable products from local supply houses, not Amazon. Any supply house that I've ever been to sells three types of flux: Stay Clean, Bridget, and Oatey. In my region hardly anyone uses Oatey flux because it solidifies in the winter.
dude after enough time, there’s not enough bristles to shed 😂😂
I always have extras, i will lightly squeeze where the brush meets the metal part.
I put Flux on with my finger. Wipe the extra on my damp rag. Boom.
Good tip 👍
Now that is serious tech tip
Oh yeah LOL
Yup, this has happened to me thousands of times. Every time I uhhh, weld. Yup.
Bro that’s actually smart.
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Whenever that happens I just give it a good flick with my brush to get rid of the hair before soldering but this is a pretty damn good tip 👌
Yes!!!! This happens to me all the time. I started looking at different brushes, now I don't need to. Thanks!!!
Excellent! Thanks for another informative video.
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Definitely good to know. Appreciate the expertise.
You bet!!!
I'm pretty sure the heat from your torch is going to turn that into dust. Better to remove yes but it will be gone long before you even get to proper heat.
That's why you don't put them on a hot pipe!
You have to get the pice of bristle out of the flux and off of the pipe or fitting before soldering. I just change flux brushes if the brush is falling apart.
Also Crimp the metal end of the brush works
Ah s***, 9 times out of 10 I just use my finger. I only do a couple joints a year, so I just go to the garage grab my torch, flux, solder and get it done
Been using a thin ice cream stick for years. All good so far. Thx for the content mate.👍
That's all well and good, but some of us don't have time to go to an ice cream social before work
You carry that ice cream stick around in your purse hotshot🤨?
The audacity of carrying a popsicle stick in your truck 🛻
Mine typically get burnt up.
I don't know if I'm wrong for doing this, but I usually wipe the joints with the brush after saudering. It acts the same as if wiping a caulk joint.
Again, maybe I've been completely wrong for doing this all these years.
I haven't had any call backs for leaks though.
Glue all you want. It's always the inner bristles that come out.
Everyone uses PEX now. In fact transition fittings to PEX from copper is easier than solder, flux and brushes.
Wonderful tip, I will use it for more than just the use shown in this video.
Holy shit thank you! how did I not think of this🔥🔥 tired of the brush getting eaten by the flux and doing this after a week it’s really annoying
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Just take vice grips or channel locks and crimp the end better. Done and no wasting glue.
Best idea ever. I absolutely hate hate hate those bristles!
So do I grrrrr....
"never" is a stretch. It will definitely help but a bristle can still break in half.
Great tip! So easy! Worth a minute to do this!
You can do the whole pack in 1 minute! 😋
I bet it still will happen the glue only getting to outter fibers not all inner
A LOT less!
I should try that on my head! 😝
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🤣🤣🤣 good one👍
Aw lol
How come you just didnt take of the brissel before placing the pipe in the fitting?
Well, I think it would still hapen eventually. The glue will get hard and where the bristle meets the glue, it will eventually wear out and get loose. But still this trick is probably increasing the lifespan of the brush!
Yeah, these china made brushes are a hopeless case 🤣🤣🤣
Does Flux interact with silicone? A silicone brush could be a more long-term solution.
@@jamIam6548 maybe not a bad idea.
We call them Whiskers.
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Works great for bbq sauce brushes as well.
Got damn a whole Lotta Flux there ol son
I was thinking the same thing I cleaned my joints and used as little Flux as possible because the Flux can cause it not to adhere just as bad as that bristle
how many atemp you record this video until the brush got stuck like that?
What about all the bristles in the middle?
Still soldering joints together? How wonderfully antiquated
Yea I’ve had multiple time where bristles fall off right out of the package, too bad they only sell the super cheap ones that I’ve seen
Bristle in the Flux... im definitely coining that and using it.
always use my finger 😂 tining flex is too hard😢
Flux
No no, you must use a brush.
I've wondered for years why the manufacturer can't do a better job producing these flux brushes.
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Been in the trade for a long time never thought about doing this. Thanks for the Great idea!
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Been in the trade 30 yrs loose bristles occasionally , this issue never
Here in South Korea, we stopped using copper long time ago.
Instead we use stainless steel pipe with press joints or electrofusion hdpe pipes.
Far superior.
why is stainless steel with press joints “far superior”
You could also remove the thing, right?
I don't even do this kind of work, but I was nodding my head heavily
Appreciate all ur excellent tips in how and about safety.
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You can't say it'll never happen again because the bristles could still break
True!
That’s genius! 👍
Great hack
Umm why not just use pvc pipes are they bad for water or are they weaker than the copper pipes?
In all my many projects I’ve been lucky enough to never (knowingly) have this happen to me! I will def try this though just in case
I cut the brush bristles down by 1 /3
The bristle will melt when you heat it.
Heat it?
That's genius buddy.
Tin both surfaces first.
You’d be fired in nyc.
@@dragon0361 another reason to not go to nyc
Too much Flux. That's why the pipe near the fitting is green in a year
Ca glue with activator, it's such a fast solution, almost instant
Cool idea!
Yes it has happened but really all you need to do is pay attention and use a better brush or something else
Man, with all the shit "tips" in the shorts, sometimes you stumble on an actually great idea. I'll definitely be using this
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I just burn the bristles lol.
Thank you, I was going to put this comment down myself.
@@jamesbrother9597 yeah burning the bristles is the reality. I'm a commercial plumber I do not carry Krazy glue on me haha. My copper is not leaking from a bristle T.T
Rubber cement is the old school fix, it’s not a new idea but super glue is better
Awesome trick
Great Idea
I use q-tips on small hvacr tubing with Staybrite 8 solder.
Have never had that happen and I've soldered a lot of joints
That's because you don't use your flux brush to cool your joints, good job.
Thanks
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They should come pre glued.
It takes you a few minutes to put glue on?😮
Try pulling it out. Wow!
Till the metal fatigues at the glue instead of the ferrule and the same thing happens.
Thanks thats smart man. Like why can't the manufacturer do it
awesome tp man. I used to use a welding machine to keep those bristles in. 7018
I just hammer the brush
Hammer and glue!
My wife complains when this happens
Ngek! Why use an old paintbrush! You can spend a little more to buy a new paintbrush to have a clean work!
Or add it with a piece of sponge on the tip of a stick
I'm going to try that.
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"This will never happen," you say. So are you using a brush with only a _ring_ of bristles, or is the glue also binding the inner bristles with the rest of the bristles, somehow all to the ring of metal around the outside only? Seems short-sighted.
"If not removed" So remove it. Also, what do you do with the inside bristles that haven't been touched by the glue?
That’s just crazy
No cause I pull the bristle out before I slam the fitting or elbow on
I put my Flux on back to front and not side to side. My brush don't look like shit.
you could not be more wrong and ignorant of this. these bruses are DESIGNED that if a hair from them gets in there, it not only melts but but the melted goo will be foreed out... TRY IT.. i have 10 times for a test and NONE of them failed. This is why its VERY important to use these brushes and NOT things like other hair brushes or rags...
It's a acid brush and there intended to shed.
happens to me all the time
It's cyanoacrylate not crazy glue
they don't make flux brushes like they used to. I crimp them. with a hammer
Same 😔
My bristles always burn off when I heat it never a problem.
So wiping on flux with the silver isn't a thing
Good thing solder isn't done anymore
I hate the clowns at work who use flux to supposedly "clean" thier joints and burn the brush in the process.
There's RAGS for that 🤣🤣🤣
Wrong. And any plumber that’s been doing it a long time would know the correct way
Do both
Lol,they melt as soon as you torch them.