MY God!!! A Wurzle!!!
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22mm compression fittings: spanners required?
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And chew up fittings!
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Doctor Drivel wrote: A good quality Bahco in a couple of sizes deals with many evils.
Only that you are a prize one.
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>>>>> What make does it fit? The nuts are all different from maker to >>> maker.
Yup. I've learnt not to cut Hep2O with a hacksaw.
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I find stillsons awkward on 15mm fittings, and spanners not very useful.
I usually hold the centre of the fitting (T piece or elbow) with an F pattern adjustable,
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's good for clearance where a 'normal' adjustable won't go.
Cheers,
Paul.
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Like a mallet to hit cowboys with.
Fantastic. Make sure it is square and get rid of burrs...and all will be OK. Pro can do that but please with you being a cowboy get a tool designed for the incompetent.
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Annoys me too! I've got some Screwfix vouchers that I might put towards a decent set now you've given me the idea. I did have a friend recommend me to get some Bahco ones but I'd already sort of ended up with Stilsons as my default plumbing tool as they were the best thing I had. The adjustable spanners I've had before have been utter pants and the comedy bicycle-spanner style compression nut spanner is a nonsense.
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;-)
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If only.
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Other way is to spend some time at car boot ales or autojumbles etc and get some old BSF/Whitworth spanners. They're not much in demand so don't fetch much. A fixed correct sized spanner is always better than an adjustable.
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Or a "water pump" spanner, narrower jaws than most adjustables so they fit OK on the central hexagon, but still have the Stillson "self-locking" property provided you have them the right way round.
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"Doctor Drivel" wrote
I agree you need to be selective where you (can) use them. For seized solid old fittings smothered in boss white they're a non-starter and will do damage. But for assembling new stuff and used carefully they're fine.
Phil
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12 quid including post on ebay: 370168644443
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That is my plan. I've got a few largish imperial spanners that sometimes come in handy for plumbing but I've never sat down and worked out exactly what I should be looking for. It only occurs to me when I'm stood in field and see a nice big box of old tools :-(
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If you check the site I gave earlier you can convert the actual across flats measurement into what BSF etc spanners are marked as. So you know what to look out for.
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Oh, ta. I'd missed that post.
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Eff off as you are a total plantpot.
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Once again!!! They chew up fittings! Only use on pipes!!!!! What they are designed for.
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Got into a very difficult bit of the loft yesterday to fit a reducing T for a new shower supply. Discovered I had not got my usual spanners with me. Managed fine with mole wrench and adjustable pliers/pipe wrench. Was in a low pressure situation though and with ptfe tape on the threads.
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I did wonder that when I measured 28.5mm but then I thought if the pipe is metric, surely the fittings will be too; I was forgetting that
15 and 22 mm pipe are essentially 1/2 and 3/4 inch pipe.- Vote on answer
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