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Prepare Angle Stop Assembly

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Easy Pex Pipe Water Shut Off Valve Installation

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What happens here

The host unpackages and discusses the components needed: SharkBite 3/8-inch PEX clamps, a 3/8-inch x 1/2-inch male adapter (PEX to iron pipe thread), and a 1/2-inch x 3/8-inch OD compression straight stop valve. He explains his preference for using a male adapter over direct PEX connection to the valve, allowing for easier future replacement of the valve itself. He then demonstrates wrapping the male adapter's threads with Teflon tape (4-5 wraps) and applying pipe dope (MegaLock brand) for a secure, leak-proof seal before threading it into the straight stop valve, tightening it with a large crescent wrench and a smaller adjustable wrench serving as a backup wrench.

Goal: Assemble the angle stop valve with the male adapter, ensuring a watertight seal.

Tools and materials

  • Adjustable wrench DeWalt — Holding the male adapter steady as a backup wrench
  • Crescent wrench — Tightening the threaded connection
  • Pipe dope MegaLock — Enhancing the seal on threaded connections
  • SharkBite 3/8-inch PEX clamps SharkBite — Securing the PEX pipe to the male adapter
  • Teflon tape — Creating a seal on threaded connections

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line until we cut it. And so now we're going to get into the prep before we cut. Okay. So so these bad boys we get into some of this stuff right. How I like to do these style setups like if I'm going to cut into packs especially to be paid any kind of packs if I'm going to put a angle stop in while I'm going to use a male adapter. So let's just get all this stuff out of the packaging real quick and I'm going to show you what I'm doing. Alright. Let's get that up way out of there. Let's just need one of these. Size these things actually come in a sealable pouch man. I don't really use three eight stuff too much either because you don't really find three eights pecs outside of these manifold type setups. So here's what we're looking at. This is actually a three eights by half inch male adapter. Okay. Goes into pecs goes into iron pipe. This right here is a half inch by three eights iron pipe female style angle stop. This is actually a straight stop. It's not an angle stop right because this is straight. If it's angled this is going to be off to the side a little bit. But what we're going to do here is I like to actually put these together first. And then once we cut that pipe, we're going to chop it. We're going to put this crib ring on there real quick. We're going to put this in there and we're going to crimp that just as fast as we can. Simple, easy. Alright. I like to put these together first that way. You don't have to turn this in place. You already got it tightened. You can position it exactly where you want. And then you just crimp this on. That to me is the best scenario. So I look at this style of stuff from replacement standpoint, right? If this valve ever fails, how am I going to replace it? If I just put a pex in on it, all of a sudden I got to cut the pecs again. And every time it just gets a little smaller and smaller. And we don't want to deal with that. This way you can actually just take this, you're able to spin this off, shut the water down, spin it off, spin a new one on. You're good to go. Mel adapter in this scenario is your best friend, right? I think so anyway. This is just my opinion. This is the way I like to do it. So let's

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