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This is an example of why things built back when things like this were commonly used have lasted for so long! These types of methods were built for a lifetime!

Not bad. Almost good enough for n.y.c.

Good job 😊😊😊

I only got to wipe a lead water service to a red brass nipple .

That’s the pot calling the kettle black !!!!

Thank you for providing us this educational video very well, detailed step-by-step, excellent lead wipe

I went to a Bell System, 2 week training school in Manhattan in the early 80's. Course: Pot Wiping and Torch wiping and lead sleeve building. Same Craft different application. Cable Maintenance Crew 32 years. Communications Worker of America Great video, that's how it's done. Lead is a very toxic substance, take precautions.

Now that is plumbing at its finest.

Thank you for the demo, been a journey man plumber 30yrs/retired. In the beginning poured many a lead joint but never got to do a lead bend or a shower pan as technologies were changing. Love the skill it takes. It's good to not forget how it all began. Even just cutting a piece of cast iron pipe with a chisel & hammer. Thanks again, you never stop learning even if it's an old way of doing something.

I’m from Long Island and preparing for my test. Does anyone know a teacher or maybe this guy Tommy. Seems like he is a good teacher.

Hi Tommy, how do I get a hold of you?

Thanks so much. This helped me understand what I’m looking at in order to replace mine

Cool shit we got it too easy these days. And aint nothing made like it used to be.

Thank you for your knowledge! UA Steam Fitter Local 475.

40/60 tin/lead or 40/60 lead/tin? Big difference in price

We used mole skin wiping pads, I would leave the new pads for the new jointers, the experienced guys liked the older well worn in pads, we also used torches and went direct to the lead sleeve with the sticks, watch the colour of the wiping metal change to bright as it reaches the right temp so you could move it you wanted with the pad, too hot and it ran off, we had a gas torch in one hand and a wiping pad in the other, heat and move metal, heat and move metal, get in sync and you could keep the metal at the correct temp and move the metal where you wanted and form a nice ridge where you wanted, get out of sync and you lost the hairs on the back of your hand, we did vertical wipes, crutch wipes, wipes using mirrors placed on the ground to see under the lead sleeves as you could not see directly, and gloves were for sissys and you could not get the feel for the lead and the delicate touch on small sleeves to move it small amounts to where it needed to be for a really smooth finish and water tight seal. Here Tommy has cool metal on the surface of the pipe, see how it was very grainy like a thick biscuit dough, the only smooth bit is on the surface so no real strength where it is needed, will look ok but no strength.

Thanks for taking the time to show this. Memories from the NYC Plumbers' test.

Most jurisdictions don't even bother with practical tests anymore.

What you are doing is saving a trade and that is important and worth your time.More people should be doing this with their trades to teach others and to save a way that is vanishing in some cases.Thanks for your time and effort.

OK

Dam…. Gotta be an easier way…

Amazing Video This Is How You Really So Lead Wiping and LeadJoint

I left NYC in 1969 for Mass. Are they still replacing closet bends with lead in the City.I told the plumbers in mass that we still used lead and they could not believe it. Thanks for the video.Brings back old memories.How about the lead goose necks in the street.

It's like the Silver Surfer took a dump in that newspaper. Great video!

very cool, always wonder how it was done.

This video take me back to shop in grammar school which no longer exist. All young boys who will one day be Men should have this kind of instruction available to them. Great Video tommyboy. I have a leak at the lead elbow of our second floor bathroom very small until the bowl gets flushed. This video is beyond my skill set but I have a good friend who is doing plumbing and I will be showing him this well done video on wiping.

Fantastic demonstration of how to correctly wipe a lead joint to a ferrule . 👍

Great work. Love seeing this old school work. I used to do HV cable jointing in the uk with brass to lead , or lead to lead. not needed now, mostly plastic cables. Miss the satisfaction of the skilled work. Thanks for posting.

Wow, incredible old craft. I had no idea. Thanks for showing it. Also, this seems like a strong case for allowing PVC pipe in NYC. Lol

I took plumbing in high school as a major 1969 graduated in 1972 -in the senior year if you wanted you could spend all your time practicing to splash wipe --the kids whose fathers own plumbing company practice all they could -and at the time you needed seven years on the books working for a licensed plumber before you could even apply to take the test. in New York that is -today all the lead wiping is done with. Great video the only mistake you keep referring to the bar solder at a lead bar -you wipe the lead with the solder --not lead

Interesting! I'm fairly sure I've seen old-timers do this with just a blowtorch, no furnace or anything. On a pipe inside the wall sticking out maybe 1/2", underneath a sink. I've also watched plumbers splice copper into leaking lead supply lines more often than I care for - cheap landlords never replace the lead pipes, just have insurance pay for fixing them when they leak. My uncle apprenticed under a nutcase plumber who ran 110 mm lead toilet drains new as late as the 1980s when everyone in their right mind had switched to push-fit plastic pipes decades earlier. I've also had the dubious pleasure of watching modern plumbers try using some strange compression fittings joining lead to copper. Galvanised compression fittings downstream of copper. Hasn't leaked yet as far as I know but it's only been in the wall for three years or so.

That is a lot of work.

I was a UK telephone Jointer, we joined thin copper telephone cables 3800 pair, 7lbs copper wire with a twist plus paper sleeve. Every pair wrapped in paper. Our lead cables were 4" across, the outer lead sleeve 8".30" in length. We used to lead each end, in position with a moleskin where the term wiping a joint came from. Ours had to be air tight, plus tested with 9lbs of constant air pressure to keep the water out in deep manholes full of water. BT 1980 🇬🇧

I can't remember the last time I've been so utterly engrossed in a video. I can't tell you how people in my trade have told stories of the old-timers who did this process but have never even come close to seeing actually done; until now! Thank you for this great video. Truly one of a kind.

Journeyman plumber in NYC. Never seen one of these done before. Thanks for the great video.

We were taught differently in school and not allowed to use a torch

Full of air and will leak,terrible workmanship,

As an high voltage fluid filled cable splicer in the uk,this the most untidy and sloppy example of lead work. I would never employ this man.

Thank you for making this video Tommy, my father was a licensed plumber in New York City. He used to tell me about wiping a lead joints but I never could picture it. Your video made me feel like i was back in Staten Island again. Beautiful work brother

very good video. Saw this once in my time plumbing

my house needs this done, i think i'm SCREWED

Savage

Beautiful. My dad used to do this in the 1950’s. He’s explained this to me but I never got to see it done. Until now. Thank you for showing us.

We had to learn how to wipe lead for my plumbing license in Dayton Ohio, later I had to wipe a 4 inch lead joint for a state plumbing contest.

Thanks for posting and sharing the knowledge learned a lot.

It brings back memories of my father in the 1970s

Intresting video.

Is this 1965?

Awesome

I had to use a tinned copper iron to tin the ferrule.