Ideas to remove 50-year old 2-inch diamater galvanized "nipple" under kitchen sink

Well. I sure hope so. Because It's all epoxied in now!

For better or for worse, what I did was remove all the plastic pipe to the kitchen sinks and garbage disposal and buy all new plastic pipe.

I then cleaned up the half-inch of corroded thread on the nipple that was sticking out of the cabinet horizontally with a wire brush.

It was difficult to keep dry but I splashed alcohol and then ether on the pipe (which was a mistake from the standpoint of fumes - but that's what I did).

With the corroded nipple as dry as could be, I epoxied it and the plastic and screwed/pushed the plastic on (it screwed but really I was pushing it on more than screwing it on).

As extra insurance, I covered the entire outside of the joint with pipe dope where the plastic met the threads.

So far ... it's sealed.

I will find out when/if I have to remove it how easily it is to break the bond between 2-part epoxy and plastic and galvanized steel. :)

Thanks for all your wonderful advice!

? "Harold Lathom" wrote

Glad you have resolution. Much better than taking out the nipple.