New type of wrench

Dig deeper? He has been buried for years.

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

The Hepworth team said that above on uk.d-i-y. Please read it six times.

Yes, It is clear you don't know about this sort of thing.

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Doctor Evil

He makes it all up.

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Doctor Evil

Used to use stuff like that, and bigger, when I was a marine engineer working on diesels the size of houses. It's all relative, really.

Regards

Mark

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Mark A

As I said - you don't need much leverage. It's a brass nut, and 10 years of tightening and loosening for repacking hasn't noticeably scratched it.

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Nick Atty

I've got a Stillson like that. In bronze too 8-)

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Andy Dingley

You know all about that though, plastic pipe and a hacksaw comes to mind...

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:::Jerry::::

You are not getting a poem.

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News

This is irrelevant when their web site, along with those of every other plastic pipe manufacturer tell the user to use a pipe cutter and specifically not to use a hacksaw.

Besides, even in your quote, they didn't say that one should use a hacksaw.

Surely you're not *still* upset that you screwed up and made a fool of yourself at your neighbour's, auntie's (or wherever it was) are you? I can imagine this could be serious, because it could bring down the number of people believing that you know what you're doing to one.

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Andy Hall

You must have bigger nuts than me... ;-)

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John Rumm

Not big enough to polish it though.

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Andy Dingley

It is not. Please read it again six times.

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Only a drivelling amateur would use anything other than the correct pipe cutter on either plastic or copper pipe, given just how cheap they are.

And you claim to be a pro. 'Nuff said.

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Dave Plowman (News)

So this pratt claims to use brass pipe. And iron barrel. But cuts plastic with a hacksaw...

Stick to your poetry, my son. You do less harm to a DIYer with that. Or at least one who just ignores it as the ravings of some deranged fool.

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Dave Plowman (News)

It's not the size of the nut that matters, it's how hard you can twist it without it shearing off.

Owain

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Owain

Jerry, all tools have at least some uses. But having done more conduit installations than IMM has even seen as iron barrel for water or gas, they're too hard work being basically too short. A decent Stillson makes life so much easier.

Some. Perhaps. But I can't remember the last time I used one of those nasty things. And I've got several.

I'd use a specialised Mole for that. It won't fall off.

True. But if you want decent bite and lots of torque you use a suitable sized Stillson. But a decent one.

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Dave Plowman (News)

You regularly use iron barrel, Jerry? Well, of course it is still used for compressed air. Then a Stillson is far more use than a footprint wrench if you only had one choice.

Domestically, the choice will be plastic or copper. A footprint wrench will have no use with plastic.

Using copper, it *might* be used for the odd iron adaptor needed. But I've found a decent set of slip joint waterpump pliers easier, since you're not going to need the same tightening torque.

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Dave Plowman (News)

..of brass pipe he's clueless ..he knows nothing it's clear ..he thinks it is used for rockets in air ..in his mind all things are in space ..knows nothing on earth, this very big place ..this seasoned cadet who has much fun ..setting controls for the heart of the sun

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Doctor Evil

nope, just don't want to go there....!

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John Rumm

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conduit

Funny that, the use I found for these tools was removing / altering conduit that had been originally installed 30 to 40 years previously.

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those

But that doesn't change fact...

Yes, but it would also need releasing and re applying every half turn or lest in most situations, not always convenient when up a ladder.

suitable

The tool can give the sort of grip a stilson can (although not as good), but with the 'ease' of use that water pump pliers - I agree that Footprint wrenches are not everyday tools, but there are operations / situations where they are better than the alternatives. YMMD

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