Copper & Plastic plumbing - freely mixing and matching?

[Steve Firth]

Absolutely true, you were either too stupid to read instructions or too thick to understand them. Which was it?

[Steve Firth]

So by definition, you're an amateur, because you ballsed it up.

[Phil Addison]

You have stated that several times now. I checked with google and I can't find them saying that. What I have found is...

From: [e-mail] (Hepworth Plumbing) Date: 1998/02/24 Message-ID: Organization: Hepworth Plumbing

"It is recommended that a purpose designed pipe cutter is used for cutting Hep2O (and indeed all plastics pressure pipes) to ensure that the pipe end is clean cut and free of burrs. A hacksaw should definitely NOT be used."

From: "Hepworth Plumbing Products" References: Organization: Hepworth Plumbing Products

"We do recommend the use of a Hep2O pipe cutter, however any pipe cutter designed to cut plastics pipes should be suitable. One of the major advantages of a purpose designed cutter is speed, however the requirements for the cutter are that it should cut the tube square without scoring or scratching the pipe or leaving burrs or swarf which could get under the 'O' ring. It is for this reason that hacksaws should not be used.

The inventive can find many ways of achieving a perfectly acceptable clean, square cut using a variety of tools."

You can make a square cut with a hacksaw, but it will not be a clean cut on plastic pipe. It leaves a very rough burred edge, as Hepworth say, and which is nearly impossible to clean up with a knife or file.

So put up the reference or shut TF up.

Phil The uk.d-i-y FAQ is at

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[Owain]

"Andy Hall" wrote | Just wait. He'll be telling us that people in the north east | want a regional assembly. Nanny knows best.

£100 tax to Westminster. £100 total tax take. £55 to Westminster and £55 to Local Gov. £110 total tax take. £45 to Westminster, £45 to Region, £45 to Local Gov. £135 total tax take.

Besides, the chancellor wants to lose x thousand civil servants. Some more regional assemblies would be an excellent place to lose them in without having to pay out redundancy and up the unemployment figures.

Owain

[IMM]

Where?

[IMM]

You did! I bet you laugh at the Vicar of Dibley too.

You are very silly. If you have a few of these plastic joints to do, you can do it with available tools. Hepworth said so.

[IMM]

You couldn't make a joint with any tool.

[IMM]

What is this inventing you are on about.

[IMM]

What Emglish county full of retards are you from?

[IMM]

What was ballsed up?

[IMM]

yep....and here it is....found by you too...

Which says you don't need a specialist plastic pipe cutter. Did you understand that?

As to not using a hacksaw then how do they expect you to cut the pipe? With a lazer torch? The only implement is a ...wait for it...hacksaw...and then, as they say..."The inventive can find many ways of achieving a perfectly acceptable clean, square cut using a variety of tools."...to clean it up.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Mine never leak. Makes them easier to draw.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

And no matter how you snip it says you mustn't use a hacksaw...

From the one who claims to know everything about everything.

Was that your first choice? You've been believing everything you read on the web again...

err, *not* a hacksaw.

Yup. Dead easy to anyone with a bit of sense - in an emergency.

[Andy Hall]

I have no idea who he is.

Some men are discovered, others are found out. On that particular statement I don't think you were discovered.

[IMM]

Of course they don't leak, you don't make them.

[IMM]

The point is that retards are saying only a specialist tools can be used.

[Phil Addison]

You have already been told that snipping does not actually erase the original statement, so I'll put it back as you are obviously as thick as two short planks and can't read what is in front of your eyes. Everyone else here can see crystal clear what Hepworth actually said, not the mis-quote you give. Hepworth must be laughing their socks off at your drivel on here, watching you get deeper and deeper in the shit.

/ACTUAL COPY OF TEXT FROM GOOGLE/ From: [e-mail] (Hepworth Plumbing) Date: 1998/02/24 Message-ID: Organization: Hepworth Plumbing

"It is recommended that a purpose designed pipe cutter is used for cutting Hep2O (and indeed all plastics pressure pipes) to ensure that the pipe end is clean cut and free of burrs. A hacksaw should definitely NOT be used."

DO YOU SEE IT NOW???

"A hacksaw should definitely NOT be used."

THIS IS WHAT HEPWORTH ACTUALLY POSTED. LOOK, IT'S JUST 3 LINES UP. YES, REALLY. DO TRY TO READ IT, IT WON'T HURT. Err.. yes it will.

/ANOTHER COPY STRAIGHT OUT OF GOOGLE/ From: "Hepworth Plumbing Products" References: Organization: Hepworth Plumbing Products

"We do recommend the use of a Hep2O pipe cutter, however any pipe cutter designed to cut plastics pipes should be suitable. One of the major advantages of a purpose designed cutter is speed, however the requirements for the cutter are that it should cut the tube square without scoring or scratching the pipe or leaving burrs or swarf which could get under the 'O' ring. It is for this reason that hacksaws should not be used.

LOOK, LOOK. DO YOU SEE IT IN THIS POST TOO???

"It is for this reason that hacksaws should not be used."

THIS IS WHAT HEPWORTH ACTUALLY POSTED. LOOK, IT'S JUST 3 LINES UP.

The inventive can find many ways of achieving a perfectly acceptable clean, square cut using a variety of tools."

AFTER GIVING IT GREAT THOUGHT, I'M FAIRLY CERTAIN THEY MEAN YOU SHOULD NOT USE A WHATSITSNAME, YOU KNOW, METAL FRAME-THING WITH A TOOTHY BLADE,... UM... GOTTIT,... HACKSAW. YES THAT'S WHAT THEY SAID.

To readers with normal hearing, apologies for shouting, but IMM seems to be hard of thinking.

Dunno, I give up.... No wait a minute, let me think. Don't suppose it could be a - what was they said... hang on let me just look up a few paragraphs. Oh, yes, a pipe-cutter.

You have been watching too much sci-fi.

Almost right. You just left out two words - *except a* - hacksaw.

You also misunderstood what they intended the "variety of tools" to be used for. Its clear they mean they are for cleanly cutting the pipe, NOT for cleaning it up.

Phil The uk.d-i-y FAQ is at

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[Andy Hall]

Heaven forbid that democracy should interrupt government policy.

[raden]

In message , IMM writes

The other point is that retards who don't use the correct tool are capable of making a complete pigs ear of it

now who do we know who fits that definition ?

[IMM]

That is true in the hands of retards.

And don't we know.