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After cleaning the sweat joint so it looks professional and inspecting the flow of solder at the joints you can turn the water on immediatly proving there are no more pipes to sweat. After cleaning the sweat joint so it looks professional and inspecting the flow of solder at the joints you can turn the water on immediatly proving there are no more pipes to sweat.

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