Soldering for plastic pipes - a device which allows you to connect pipe elements polymer by hot soldering. Such technology is used for all tubes made from composite materials: polyethylene, polivinlhloridnyh, polypropylene. For metal pipes and reinforced this technology is not suitable.
To do the job well, provide the required bond strength, it is very important to use a quality soldering iron. In an effort to reduce equipment purchase costs, many masters prefer a simpler and cheaper model. This can be a big mistake. Although the price is not directly determine the quality, cheap soldering often do not provide the required temperature for durable adhesions pipes, because of which the pipeline quickly breaks down, giving a leak.
To understand why it is important to buy a good soldering iron, it is important to understand how they work. The soldering average power is about one kilowatt. This power allows you to work with pipes up to fifty millimeters in diameter. But to operate with large diameter tubes or conduit having a thicker wall, the power device must be up to half to two kilowatts. This will allow to cope with even the most complex tasks without any quality loss, and problems at work.
Please note that the soldering iron power - is a conditional indicator, as are many factors affect the quality of welding pipes. The more powerful soldering iron, the faster will go to work. Also, a lot depends on the thermal conductivity of the soldering iron tip.
Experts advise to stop the choice on the powerful apparatus of at least one and a half kilowatt equipped with flexible temperature control. In such apparatus can be adjusted, and the optimum temperature to achieve maximum performance with the tubes of any thickness.
Cost such soldering is not cheap, but it is much more profitable to buy a high-quality model with universal characteristics than two Soldering for plastic pipes, one of which allows to connect the thin pipes without melting them, and the other to cope with thick pipelines. It has to do so if the soldering iron has a smooth temperature control. In addition, with the cheaper models often declared capacity does not correspond to the actual, which greatly complicates the work.
