Replacing a Home Air Conditioner High Side Line

Video Transcript

"Three-eighths copper for the high side line now, I may cut it too big, cut it twice even. I'm going to clean the copper, same as I did my suction side, now I'm not soldered here yet or here of course, I'll do all those soldered joints when I do this one. That was my critical one because of the way that pave was, and now I've got this already formed in you see, into my suction, and also in here in cause that's still hot, right there. They used a coupling here, I normally wouldn't used a coupling, I would have used this tool here which is similar to the one I showed you earlier, like this one, just a smaller one, and I would draw within with a hammer and that would swell this pipe up to go over top of this pipe, but I've noticed that they used a coupling here, they used a couple of more couplings actually, there's another one right there, from the house to the unit, but since there's a coupling already there I'm going to go and use that coupling right now. But if they, here I'd use a coupling because this pipe here, I can't sway it that big, this is a harder pipe, but this three-eighths, you take it, and you drive it and it swells the pipe up big enough to go over the outside of the other pipe. Makes it look like this right here, what it would do, see the way this bevel right here on this pipe here is, that's what that will make it look like, that bevel right there, when you do that, similar to the coupling. But like I said, since they've already got the coupling there I'm going to use the coupling. I wouldn't have added it, but it's there, so there's no use taking it out and not using it right now. I make sure that I'm back in here good, I'm inside the unit good, I'm only in that far, that's about as far as they can go in, see, so I went the length that I could go there, and that should make a good joint now. Okay."