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Old plumbing trick: stuff dripping pipes with bread to keep solder dry

79-Year-Old Contractor Shares his White Bread Technique for Soldering Pipes

You can’t solder a leak! “Take freash bread, take out the core, roll it into a tight ball, stuff it into the pipe, and it’ll stop the leak long enough to let you solder the pipe.”

“I’m going to post this on a site called Reddit.”

“Oh my God.”

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