Yet another reminder of my dislike of plumbing
Replacing the valve/faucets for the tub/shower. The very first step is adding some flexible faucet hoses, with temporary caps, for the incoming supply lines. One line (hot) mounted pretty cleanly after I cut the incoming 3/8" supply tube, the other (cold), I spent several hours on, cutting it back a little at a time, fine sanding, trying three different compression nuts, silicone to facilitate getting the compression part on -- the darn tubing is just slightly too large to fit, else slightly out of round. Finally I pulled another panel, found where the 3/8" is tied to 1/2". It looks like I can just get into that space with my small tube cutter, switch to 1/2" sharkbite 90, a PEX run, then a sharkbite 90 with 1/2" MIPS on one leg, 30" faucet connection hose coming off it (the 1/2 female compression side of the faucet hose should go okay with the 1/2" MIPS on the sharkbite).
All I want is something that doesn't leak, can be maintained.