www.SharkbitePlumbing.com is the website for all your Sharkbite Plumbing parts and repairs. Here is a video explaining how to use Sharkbite fittings. There are Sharkbite connectors, Sharkbite elbows, Sharkbite tees and many more Sharkbite Plumbing Fittings.
How to use Sharkbite Plumbing
April 28th, 2010 
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Tags: Connectors, Elbows, fittings, Plumbing, Plumbing Fittings, Plumbing Parts, Plumbing Repairs, Sharkbite, Sharkbite Fittings, Sharkbite Plumbing, Tees
very useful
haha 9 dollars for one
I agree on the “”at first”"” pricey thought but once I used one it was actually priceless! Had a gate valve go bad and wanted to replace it with a ball valve so I could do more work down stream. That old bread trick is for the birds. After a few hours of trying to get solder to not pinhole leak I got me a pair of straight couplers. I cut out a 18″ section of that line with the ball valve in the middle. Bench soldered it, added 2 straight Sharkbite couplers. Done in only 10 minutes.
Try doing my previous mentioned valve replacent with compression fitting when your flush against a wall! You can actually cap off a gate valve that dont seal 100% and is wet and under pressure in literally seconds. Once againthey = a priceless no brainer. Of course I woundnt do a whole job with them – just the nasty spots!
additionally you can easily cap off one half of a line with the rig mentioned below- then open a lowest drain or faucet and duck tape on a wet vac hose to evacuate the line. Lets you solder dry and also under a negative pressure helping suck teh solder in teh joint!
made in australia. we export 30 million worth to USA each month.
It’s more like a lamprey fitting if you ask me.