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Saddle Valve on Iron Pipe Help Please...
« on: September 03, 2004, 02:12:15 pm »
Hi Friends, I had a new Refrigerator recieved today, and I need to hook up the Ice Maker, so I bought the Vinyle tubing, a few Compression Nuts and a saddle valve. I thought Our pipes under the sink where Copper, But alas they are Iron.

How difficult Is It to Use a Saddle Valve on an Iron pipe? I thought about shutting the water off, and drilling a 3/16 th inch hole, But I wasn't sure if that would work.

Thanks ahead of time,

Stephen
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Re: Saddle Valve on Iron Pipe Help Please...
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2004, 02:20:43 pm »
1.  You could replace said pipe with copper (if practical).

2.  If you drill the hole, you'll probably have to tap it and get a threaded connection.  Don't forget to use teflon tape around the threads, as this will help seal the connection.

3.  Buy some ice cube trays and do it the old fashioned way  ;D .

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Re: Saddle Valve on Iron Pipe Help Please...
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2004, 02:24:48 pm »
Thanks Mike, Good Advice. Replacing the Pipe with Copper is not really all that Practicle at this time. It would be a huge Process, since they run Throughout the length of the house in the Basement.

Good idea on the Taping bit though. Sounds like a good excuse to go to the Old Local, Tool Barn.

Stephen
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Re: Saddle Valve on Iron Pipe Help Please...
« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2004, 03:22:26 pm »
Sirgod, I think he means replacing only the length of iron pipe near your 'fridge.  If it's a short section, it shouldn't be too bad.
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Re: Saddle Valve on Iron Pipe Help Please...
« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2004, 03:26:36 pm »
Yeah that's the strang part. The actual Pipe , doesn't have an Elbow, for a short link and then a regular faucet to go to the Sink, It's a straight pipe, with the Faucet coming out from the Floor. Kinda like

-----------------------------------------------------------F instead of


                                                   F
                                                  {
                                                  {
                                                 {
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F being the Main Faucet where the Sink Flex Pipe comes out of . The only Iron Pipe is at least 18-20 feet long under the house, and then It's just joined into another Stretch of pipe about the same length.

Dang Olod House.,

Stephen
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Re: Saddle Valve on Iron Pipe Help Please...
« Reply #5 on: September 03, 2004, 04:23:19 pm »
It's a fallout shelter!
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Re: Saddle Valve on Iron Pipe Help Please...
« Reply #6 on: September 03, 2004, 04:30:10 pm »
LOL, It would seem like that.  ;D

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Re: Saddle Valve on Iron Pipe Help Please...
« Reply #7 on: September 03, 2004, 06:14:29 pm »
kinda what e_look said...cut a 1 foot section out, cut the threads in both ends, get a phlanged piece of copper or PVC with the attendant couplers (get that first so you know what tread size to do) and just "slip" it in....

reminds me when I took the old water softener out of the loop and I sent my (then) 12 year old to shut the water off...I yelled "everything taken care of?" and got "Yep"...he turned the valve the wrong way..I started with the pipe cutter..water everywhere..sometimes you gotta do it yourself..

He did learn the lesson of "righty tighty, lefty loosey"...mainly by mopping up the mess...

Good luck, and let us know your final solution

Mike
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My chops were not as fast...[but] I just leaned more on what was in my mind than what was in my chops.  I learned a long time ago that one note can go a long way if it's the right one, and it will probably whip the guy with twenty notes.
 --Les Paul

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Re: Saddle Valve on Iron Pipe Help Please...
« Reply #8 on: September 03, 2004, 06:17:02 pm »
Will do Mike, I'll Probably Work on  It over the weekend.  Kinda Tired tonight, and we just grabbed a copy of the Passion.

Stephen
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Re: Saddle Valve on Iron Pipe Help Please...
« Reply #9 on: September 03, 2004, 06:48:08 pm »
Enjoy..haven't gotten my copy yet..but I will..been a long week, and our Gov't inspectors are comeing in on Tuesday to audit "the slimey contractors"...since I was a "Quality Assurance Evaluator" for two years in Georgia..I know what to expect...we were actualy taught that contractors are trying to steal the Gov't blind...now as a contractor, I know it's not true...but we have to deal with them

Have a great weekend, let us know how you're doing, and don't get wet  :D 

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The more law, the less justice.

Cicero, De Officiis, I, 33

"It doesn't, and you can't, I won't, and it don't
it hasn't, it isn't, it even ain't, and it shouldn't
it couldn't"
FZ, 1974

My chops were not as fast...[but] I just leaned more on what was in my mind than what was in my chops.  I learned a long time ago that one note can go a long way if it's the right one, and it will probably whip the guy with twenty notes.
 --Les Paul

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Re: Saddle Valve on Iron Pipe Help Please...
« Reply #10 on: September 03, 2004, 09:42:24 pm »
Will do, I kinda Pussed out on watching the Passion tonight. I want to Get the whole effect, as I didn't get to see It in the Theater, then the wife wife for some ungodly Reason wanted to try and play Trivial Pursuit against me.

I think she did It because she knew I was exhausted, and My mind wasn't in the game.

Oh well, here's to the Weekend All.

Stephen
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Re: Saddle Valve on Iron Pipe Help Please...
« Reply #11 on: September 06, 2004, 08:43:16 am »
So Stephan, you get the icemaker hooked up? or are you doing it the old-fashioned way (ice cube trays) or the really old-fashioned way..go into the mountains and cut a block of ice and bring it home  ;D

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Cicero, De Officiis, I, 33

"It doesn't, and you can't, I won't, and it don't
it hasn't, it isn't, it even ain't, and it shouldn't
it couldn't"
FZ, 1974

My chops were not as fast...[but] I just leaned more on what was in my mind than what was in my chops.  I learned a long time ago that one note can go a long way if it's the right one, and it will probably whip the guy with twenty notes.
 --Les Paul

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Re: Saddle Valve on Iron Pipe Help Please...
« Reply #12 on: September 06, 2004, 10:58:59 am »
SHH. Don't give my wife any Ideas. Saturday she had me Building Book Cases most of the day, so I didn't get to It. Sunday she let me off for the day, and Today, It's back to work Moving Furniture around, throughout the whole house, and Possibly Enclosing a Shower Stall.

It might get done today, But I'm not sure.

Stephen
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Re: Saddle Valve on Iron Pipe Help Please...
« Reply #13 on: September 06, 2004, 05:45:31 pm »
Does that mean you didn't hitch the horses up, get the hay and excelsior, head west to Colorado, go to 10000 feet, cut the ice and pack it and then bring it home?   :D ;D

I know..been busy all weekend, and I didn't get Sunday off...had to challenge the commisay with all the peeps who bring thier kids with them to shop...I love kids, but they could be left at home...and I do understand the spouses of deployed personnel, but when that happened to us, we shoved all the kids into on room, and set a gaurd outside so they wouldn't escape....when the parents came home, they had the piock of the crop  :lol:

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Summum ius summa iniuria.

The more law, the less justice.

Cicero, De Officiis, I, 33

"It doesn't, and you can't, I won't, and it don't
it hasn't, it isn't, it even ain't, and it shouldn't
it couldn't"
FZ, 1974

My chops were not as fast...[but] I just leaned more on what was in my mind than what was in my chops.  I learned a long time ago that one note can go a long way if it's the right one, and it will probably whip the guy with twenty notes.
 --Les Paul

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Re: Saddle Valve on Iron Pipe Help Please...
« Reply #14 on: September 06, 2004, 06:13:54 pm »
LOL, I tell you the Trip to Colorado almost sounds easier. I can't find my Water Key either this weekend. I seem to have Uhm Misplaced It.

Oh and thanks for the Email earlier. Haven't had time to go through It, But I will some time this week.

Stephen
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Re: Saddle Valve on Iron Pipe Help Please...
« Reply #15 on: September 06, 2004, 07:11:35 pm »
You can always steal the neighbors, or a good set of needlenose vise grips works..uhh how do I know this.......then there is the public utilities method, but you have to find the place where they turn it off, and a 6 foot extension...


Good luck, and enjoy what I sent...as I said, pass it around to those who might need it..one should always be able to convert from peak to peak to RMS whether it's triangle, sine or square wave


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Summum ius summa iniuria.

The more law, the less justice.

Cicero, De Officiis, I, 33

"It doesn't, and you can't, I won't, and it don't
it hasn't, it isn't, it even ain't, and it shouldn't
it couldn't"
FZ, 1974

My chops were not as fast...[but] I just leaned more on what was in my mind than what was in my chops.  I learned a long time ago that one note can go a long way if it's the right one, and it will probably whip the guy with twenty notes.
 --Les Paul
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