Lead Pipe won't give...

PCGumshoe · 2007-08-11T06:24:21+00:00

I've got two pipes that lead to and from a small size water heater inmy garage. The pipes coming out of the water heater are copper andconverge to lead. There is a 90 degree turn from the in/out's on thewater heater and I've been able to get the 3 foot section of lead pipeunscrewed from the next 90 degree turn that bends into a 10" sectionof pipe that is screwed into a "T" junction on the water lines. It isthis 10" section and 90 degree turn that I can't remove from the "T"junction.Looking at the lead pipe, there appears to be some sort of white pastethat was used on the pipe when the pipes were joined many years ago.I've tried to torch to pipes to loosen them, but nothing. I'm using aPipe Wrench to try and remove the pipe...I want to replace the pipe with less than 1" extension from the "T"and make it CPVC to a 90 degree elbow on a new raised platform thesmall water heater will be on.Can anyone suggest how to "FREE" this pipe? Is this some sort ofbonding agent between the "T" join and the 10" pipe?ThanksBTW: The pipe is less than 1" thick, 10" is the length.

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Robert Allison 19 years ago

But you admit that you agree with me.

So you agree with me, good!

It is not fine, but you will not get sick from it. You are not going to get sick from incidental exposure to zinc oxide fumes.

Great! I assumed that you disagreed with me. Since I was wrong about that, I apologize.

Fantastic"!, I am glad to see that this was all a misunderstanding on my part. Since we both agree that one should drink milk upon being exposed to zinc fumes before you feel any symptoms, I again apologize. I thought you were argueing with me to disagree with me. I never would have thought that someone would argue with a person to agree with them. My bad!

I agree. Since you now point out that I am completely correct and that you were just agreeing with me. I apologize. I misunderstood your statements. I thought that you were disagreeing with me and advocating a dangerous position.

This is confusing to me, but I will trust you. You said that I am making false statements that you were disagreeing with me and that I should apologize. I did. Since my initial confusion was that your statements which appeared to contradict me were actually in agreement with me, I will continue to honor that predilection and assume that where you are now saying that I am wrong you are actually agreeing with me, again. Great!

I am mistaken, I apologize. I thought that you were disagreeing with me. Since you have now shown that you agree with everything that I said, there is no further need to continue this argument. What a waste of time, huh?

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