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The garden tap is broken at the bottom and there is a small water leak coming through it. Any good ideas of how to stop the leak for next few days until a plumber comes and fixes it?
Good evening, my fellow redditors while placing drywall I accidentally drilled into this half inch copper pipe and am looking for the best solution to fix this ?
That's a bad spot to have a leak. That could have been caused by too much heat from a torch or excess acid flux. You might be able to cut the 1 1/4" pipe on the other side of the support and heat the joint going into the "y" and remove the piece of pipe. Then clean out all the old solder by heating up the pipe and wiping out solder. Use emery paper to clean the surface down to the copper. Get a new piece of pipe and a repair coupling. Slide the repair coupling on the old pipe after fluxing and then slide the pipe into the "Y" after applying the flux. Flux the new pipe and slide the repair coupling into place. Now sweat the "Y" and the repair coupling. You should be good to go.
While there are various possible causes (aside from not cleaning acid flux properly, the one that comes to mind in that location is improper/insufficient support causing a bending force on the pipe from the Y junction) I personally would replace as much as possible with PVC (and take your copper to the scrapyard.)
If you are prone to consider that going overboard, please check the pH of your water. If it's acid, that's not going overboard, it's saving you future hassle as more places rot through, one by one, and then leak until you notice them.
Soldering copper supply pipe is a relatively easy skill, though many folks these days seem daunted by it. Personally, I can solder them just fine but I won't be buying new ones in the age of PEX, especially with the price of copper so high. Drain pipe, simply due to the size, is much more difficult to solder well, especially with typical homeowner torches. PVC is an order of magnitude easier to do right, and it is unaffected by water chemistry.
Additionally, new copper pipe and fittings in drain pipe sizes are painfully expensive, especially when you may need to buy 10 feet even if you only need 6 inches of pipe.
Do NOT throw out copper scrap, it will probably pay for your whole replacement pipe and then some.