Last week I had a trailer park we do work at called and had an underground water leak, I get the there and it was at a trailer riser that I repaired last spring 2014 with a lead free brass barb coupling, i grabbed the poly line and pulled it off the coupling with no effort. Both staggered gear clamps were tight on the pipe. I felt the inside of the pipe and I could feel where the barbs had grabbed the pipe. Upon reclaiming the coupling I noticed that the barbs had simply been dissolved.
I had a leak i repaired a month before before that the maintance man repaired a year ago out of a bag of couplings I had given him for times I'm not available(he is a 84 year old retired plumber). That coupling had a series of pin holes in it that at first I had just thought were because the gear clamps were touching the bass. He had told me after that it was only about a year since he had repaired it.
At the end of the day he brought me 4 other couplings I have replaced within the past year that have wore pin holes through.
Has anyone else had an issue with lead free brass fittings? I'm pridnear scared crapless as I have easily 300 joints through out three counties that I have done that are buried. I know I'm going to loose sleep over this and I hope that this place isan isolated case because in a small town bad word spreads really fast.
I had a leak i repaired a month before before that the maintance man repaired a year ago out of a bag of couplings I had given him for times I'm not available(he is a 84 year old retired plumber). That coupling had a series of pin holes in it that at first I had just thought were because the gear clamps were touching the bass. He had told me after that it was only about a year since he had repaired it.
At the end of the day he brought me 4 other couplings I have replaced within the past year that have wore pin holes through.
Has anyone else had an issue with lead free brass fittings? I'm pridnear scared crapless as I have easily 300 joints through out three counties that I have done that are buried. I know I'm going to loose sleep over this and I hope that this place isan isolated case because in a small town bad word spreads really fast.