In theory no. In practice a good solder joint is proven to last 50+ years* while that exact design of adapter has been in widespread use for maybe a decade. *longer, actually, but other parts of the copper pipe will fail by friction before the solder joint does. Answer from bunjay on reddit.com
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r/HomeImprovement on Reddit: Connecting copper pipe to pex - is there longevity and reliability differences between shark bite push adapters vs. female sweat adapters?
August 23, 2019 - Since I only had one connection to make, I ended up with a nut/bolt compression fitting that went onto the copper, and I screwed on the male pex connection. It worked, and I think it cost about $5. ... Sharkbite adapters great are great but they do fail.
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I have had good luck with shark bites too, and use them for copper to pex transitions in a few places in my house. I did a water heater replacement in a tough location at our beach house and with limited tools and time I just used Shark Bites and Pex that I obtained locally there and it all felt like cheating it was so easy. Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) GRM+ Memberand MegaDork 3/2/22 10:18 a.m. Redid my house with Pex and sharkbites.
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Easily connect pipe in seconds with the SharkBite Push-To-Connect 1/2-Inch Straight Coupling. This plumbing fitting joins copper, PEX, CPVC, HDPE, or PE-RT pipe in any combination. With no soldering, clamps, or glue required, connections are as simple as inserting a pipe into the fitting deep enough to be sealed by the specially-designed O-ring. Once inserted, the fitting's stainless steel teeth bite down and grip the pipe. Disassembly is just as easy with the simple SharkBite disconnect tool. The SharkBite Straight Coupling is designed for potable water and radiant heating applications includ
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Sharkbite makes "slip couplings":
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These are designed to slip deep over one end of a pipe, to allow a fix pipe like your PEX segment to get in place, then slip back for the final connection. The "About this product" section on the Hope Depot link claims that this device can handle a 2" missing segment of pipe. If you cut clean that damaged copper pipe end and properly size the length of replacement PEX, you can slide a slip coupling on the copper pipe and slip it back over the PEX end, and the repair is complete.
(The product is shown for example purposes only, I'm not affiliated with this product or Home Depot.)
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Replace more (throughly unbendable) copper with (slightly bendable) PEX. If you can replace the copper to a point where it turns 90 anyway, one 90 and one straight will get the job done easily while (as @keshlam has already noted) the stock solution to a short splice in a stiff line is four 90's. In a longer straight line situation you can loop or wiggle the PEX (respecting minimum bend radius) or you could use 2 90's and a U-Bend (respecting minimum bend radius) of PEX between them. That might be better done to the next joist bay or the one after that to keep the bends large.