The Wheeler Rex Shut-off tools are invaluable for maintenance and installation of soft copper service lines where they can shut-off, hold and restore flow quickly . Flexible copper pipe is best for repair work since it can be run around obstacles. You can still bend some 1/L but the is too hard. I have had problems with leaks when compression fittings were used with soft copper tubing for compressed air.
Copper Refrigeration Coil Tube. There was no water in the pipe , so I cut off the capped end and aligned the 1/copper pipe. This pipe may be hard to find in plumbing.
You could use 5/soft copper tubing. Until you get to small tubing sizes, yes, soft copper is the same OD as hard. I still have somewhere a set of anti-kink benders for soft copper pipe.
Saw a piece of Ti tube the other day bend really clean on a inch radius! When soft copper tubing is used for plumbing , different styles of compression. Both ends must make contact tightly, and perfectly evenly.
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