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Locate and Prepare PEX Pipe for Cutting

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What happens here

The host identifies the 3/8-inch PEX pipe that needs to be cut for the dishwasher connection. He notes that this is Type B PEX, which uses stainless steel crimp rings. He spreads a purple towel under the pipe to catch any residual water. He identifies a clear, un-nicked section of the pipe for the cut, leaving enough length for potential future repairs.

Goal: Identify the correct PEX line, prepare the area, and mark the cut location.

Tools and materials

  • PEX Type B pipe — The water line to be modified for the angle stop
  • PEX crimp ring — Demonstrating the type of ring to be used for the connection
  • Towel — Catching any residual water from the pipe cut

What they say

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going to be for those guys. Okay. So here's the setup we're going to be putting in today. So this is actually type B pecs, right? So it's the same style of pecs that takes these stainless steel crimp rings that I'm fixing to use. Or it takes these brass or copper crimp washers. All right. Now either one of these, this tool is going to be a little more expensive. This tool is a little less. And honestly, I find the tool for this just so much easier to use. But you run into this stuff. And you have to be able to transition, right? So I bought what I bought a little tool. I'm going to show you this is a little tool. It's by Apollo. And it is, it's just an awesome little crimping tool, right? It's one that I found that works super easy. You can for the most part do it one handed. It's ratcheting. And you can see as this thing starts to crimp down, it gets done. And then there's a little indicator light that shows you that it's done. And then when you're all good and done, you just click that release and you're back in business. Now I can tell you, having used the, the, the plier type crimp to deal with these right here, man, they're so hard. And if you're in a crawl space, I just found this to be way more easier. Now this idea is way easier because I actually have a pecs gun by Milwaukee. And that thing is awesome. I'll end up doing some tool reviews. We'll end up talking much more about this style of stuff. I just want to get my garage cleaned out first. I need a good work area to do more tool reviews. All right. But for this right here, this is what we're using. This is the setup. We're actually just going to cut this somewhere about right here. We'll pop this in place. And they'll be able to hook everything up from there. All right. So let's grab a towel because there's probably going to be a little bit of water. And I like to just make sure that we're set up here. It's not going to be too much because the water is off. So this needs to be a pretty quick process. It usually is, like I said, we're just going to pop this ring on here. We're going to pop this on here. Then we'll get that in position. And we'll do a little thing. I try to find a place in here where the pipe's not nicked up or something, right? You just want it to be able to sit and hold good. It actually holds from the inside. But I don't know, man, I just like to make sure things are good. So I've just determined there's kind of like a little nick right here. So that's where I'm going to cut.…

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