IRON TO COPPER CONNECTION: help!!

croydoncorgi · 12 Aug 2006

Heat (but not so much as to melt the lead!)

doitall · 12 Aug 2006

croydoncorgi said:
Heat (but not so much as to melt the lead!)

What lead CC is steel pipe.

Plenty of heat on the fitting only and a good pair of stilsons

bripl · 12 Aug 2006

10/14/18/24/36/48 stilsons i would start with the fourteens and a bit of heat

then the plumbers second favorite tool brute force,

his first is ignorance

doitall · 13 Aug 2006

bripl said:
10/14/18/24/36/48 stilsons i would start with the fourteens and a bit of heat then the plumbers second favorite tool brute force, his first is ignorance

Have you ever tried lifting 3ft Rigid stilsons, bripl

2fts and a putlug will shift most things

bripl · 13 Aug 2006

oh yes i have dia,

thats why all my stilsons are ali

Nige F · 13 Aug 2006

crashanova said:
Simple but pure genius - all clear now. Thanks to all.

I've been back to have a good look. The last bit of the lead union, as you all suspected,

............ALL suspected.........

ONLY ONE got there first

chrishutt · 13 Aug 2006

Nige F said:
... ONLY ONE got there first

....and it was Nige F!

JohnD · 14 Aug 2006

Hacksaw?

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