I dare you, post one of yours!

[benatwhodotnet]

Ok, so I did this... why? I was replacing B-I-L's compressor in Tucson and thought to myself that I should not heat the check valve on the exit port of the Copeland scroll compressor using my swirl jet torch... After all it was 110F in the shade that day. I didn't bring the oxy/acetylene rig with the number 0 torch tip that does such pinpoint precision brazing. Sooooo, I used the purple stuff in my tool bag to connect the high pressure tubing. Then when I went to Johnstone a couple of days later I noticed that their stuff was RED!!! not PURPLE!!! The stuff in my tool bag was old and it lasted about a week before this photo arrived on my cell phone from upset B-I-L. I hurried back down to Tucson with the right torch kit and some tubing and a flare tool and twelve pounds of R22 and some oil to (fit, braze, leak test, evac, charge) make things right.

[jayguy]

what is 'purple stuff'....for that matter, what is 'red stuff'?

[coolwhip]

Newbies!

[benatwhodotnet]

This stuff, and I've used it with fantastic results on several units that I installed (compressors) in 2009. The problem was with using it in 2010 when it had been in my truck tool bag for about 8 months too long.

what is 'purple stuff'....for that matter, what is 'red stuff'?

[benatwhodotnet]

How old are you? I've been doing HVAC repairs for 35 years.

[viceman]

is this a joke? you seriously use this stuff? im not trying to be a jerk here but i can't imagine using glue to repair a refer circuit. on the other hand if this stuff works i am all ears!

[rglasgow]

Bought some Friday and it is purple straight out of bottle. Do not use on soft copper. I use it for copper drain lines on RTUs. So so results on refrigerant lines probably due to me and not product.

[hvacvegas]

Bought some Friday and it is purple straight out of bottle. Do not use on soft copper. I use it for copper drain lines on RTUs. So so results on refrigerant lines probably due to me and not product.

drain lines fine.

I've seen this product before.

I will openly say this:

If you have to use a solvent bond for a refrigerant circuit you are either 2 things. Extremely inexperienced and you should not be in your own van, or your a hack.

Either one, your call.

I've whipped out my turbo torch and thrown fire up in finished walls, brazed in compressors, whatever. I've only been in the trade for 8 years, never had an uncontrolled fire.

I don't have a problem with someone using it for a drain line. Thats just a speed thing for non-pressurized piping, no harm there.

[jayguy]

How old are you? I've been doing HVAC repairs for 35 years.

i have been in the business for over 20 years...i don't use glue. i braze so i didn't know what it was. i have heard of it, but it seemed a little too 'home depot/kindergarten' for me. i know what color it is now...red is new...purple is old. thanks!

i love this line from their website: NOTE: The I. D. of couplings and fittings must be 0.010 inch larger than the O. D. of the tubing being bonded for a proper bond.

i am sure the product works ok on brand new, never-been-used-before type of copper but i wonder how well it works in the field where there is a little bit of oil you don't see or some debris...stuff like that.

[Mike19]

It seems like I remember another thread about this a while back. Stuff was red, joints held for a few months and blew apart.

[t527ed]

How old are you? I've been doing HVAC repairs for 35 years.

doing it that long and still admit to using "purple stuff" on a scroll discharge line????????

i have been at it for over 40 years and would not even think of gluing a discharge line together.

[grkmano]

I used this a few times on drain lines worked like a charm.

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[hotntired]

I hurried back down to Tucson with the right torch kit and some tubing and a flare tool

What did you use the flare tool for?