fourth year
Forget S’s sarcasm, he is from NYC and that is all he knows. If you cannot turn an elbow, how will you make a solder joint without burning the building down. Second, because of the different expansion and contraction rates of copper/brass and steel, female joints especially should be made before being fastened to the steel pipe, which in your case sounds like it would not be possible. It appears that your repair problems are exactly what unions were created to solve.
