Maybe? Basically a shutoff valve won’t close due to mineral deposits and despite trying several approaches and tutorials I could not effectively remove the handle to clean the buildup - so the next option was replacing the valve but that quickly entered “nope I’m in over my head” territory
But yeah, if you ever feel like getting more adventurous with your undersink plumbing on your own, using copper (often chromed) to connect things together has a lot of upsides. However, it's a ridiculous crapshoot whether or not something's gonna leak a lot of the time. I've basically given it up.
Ah. Yeah. I have a deep-seated hate for gate valves. If we're talking about an angle stop here, if it happens to be threaded directly onto galvanized pipe, the only reasonable DIY option is buying an inline 3/8 compression shutoff to thread onto the outlet of the angle stop to supplant it.
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