Depressurise it as much as possible. Dry it . Wrap it in string and JB Weld. If you have plumbing kit then cut that stop off about a. inch from the stop , drain the bodged section, resolder the t piece, desolder end cap from chopped pipe end and resolder the end stop on the stub.
The downside to letting plumbers on this form do work for us, as a favour ! ( now goes and hides to avoid flack. )
Oh dear. That is not in the easiest bit of pipework to repair. If you’ve not got a blowtorch etc I would get more boards up and some push fit fittings and pipe and do temporary quick fix before you can’t get the parts. a leak sealer may do the trick tho it depends how big the leak is
Here is my push fit, or compression fittings and plastic pipe solution if you don’t have a blowtorch or don’t do soldering. Tho problem with push fit is the boards won’t sit back properly as it’s bulkier than soldered fittings. you could do with a proper 15mm pipe slice so you don’t have any skanky ends of copper, if you use a hack saw, as these can damage the push fit seals. You could always smooth with a file tho, or use compression fittings. Where you cut the copper make sure there aren’t any runs of solder that may make a push fit seal not seal properly. Tho you could always sand it off as you may have lots of time spare. If you use push it ( my fave is John Guest Speedfit, especially for temp job as is easily demountable) use the correct pipe inserts as to whether you use push fit, or compression fittings. I have detailed below in your photo what I would do for temp repair without soldering Following my photo I would: cut at 1,2 and 3. 3 being the pipe coming from the right of the faulty Tee. Swap elbow at 4 for a Tee drop an elbow from cut 1 Straight coupler from cut 3 Cap end cut 2 Add in another tee between elbow 1 and tee 4 and run pipe to those and to coupler 3
Here’s my almost-disaster. Last night the main downstairs light went out and tripped the fuse. So I reset it, thinking we’d just popped a bulb. Lights went on. No problem. Then we switched them off and went to bed. Woken at 6am by a weird smell - also the light had come back on, flickering like a horror movie The dimmer switch was smoking! Somehow after years of peaceful operation it had decided to short out and the fuse box decided not to trip again. “I told you once that there was a problem. If you don’t believe me I’m not telling you again.” I reckon another 30 mins and the curtain next to it would have gone up. Lucky...though the whole house stinks.
All fixed. My old ex B+T mate, became a plumber, and came round and fixed it for £50 and some beer. He chopped it all out, and soldered loads more new copper pipe in. Loads better. Now to fix the fridge freezer.
