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DIY & Home Improvement

bucolic_frolic

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11. Thanks for your help

Reply to Kali (Reply #10)

Sat Dec 25, 2021, 03:43 PM

Dec 2021

That's why they use brass to brass. I think the original was a brass fitting to the steel pipe. Brass was so corroded I tossed it. There could be some corrosion on the threaded pitless too.

The brass lasted 20 years. This PVC 25. So I guess I have no complaints!

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Water line, iron pipe to PVC [View all] bucolic_frolic Dec 2021 OP

can you take a picture? Kali Dec 2021 #1

It's all 1" pipe bucolic_frolic Dec 2021 #2

prob cracked tightening it on Kali Dec 2021 #10

Thanks for your help bucolic_frolic Dec 2021 #11

try working on 50 year old galvanized that was probably used when it got put in LOL Kali Dec 2021 #12

I have acid 6.2 water and it just corroded the galv steel pipe to lumps and clogs bucolic_frolic Dec 2021 #13

From the photo it looks like the threaded to PVC fitting is cracked and leaking. tikka Dec 2021 #3

I've looked at that closely too bucolic_frolic Dec 2021 #4

Will this work? Hassin Bin Sober Dec 2021 #5

Or this? Hassin Bin Sober Dec 2021 #6

No, need female threads, those I can get at Lowes. /nt bucolic_frolic Dec 2021 #8

I need to come off the pitless adapter threads, so no that's opposite, but I think this would: bucolic_frolic Dec 2021 #7

A double female 1" brass coupling would work too. bucolic_frolic Dec 2021 #9

Patch is in bucolic_frolic Dec 2021 #14

The pitless adapter is indeed a very weak link. william ortiz Feb 2022 #15