...hopefully without damaging the pipe itself.
Hacksaw?
Easiest way to remove (compressed) olive from copper pipe?
Mar 14, 2006
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Pretty much. Saw as close to right angles as you can, so you make a slot along the olive. (junior hacksaw may be easier) Now, before you hit the pipe, put in a largish screwdriver, and force the olive open.
Oive remover, Screwfix do one.
Is it Christmas already?
Any time I have had to do this it's a case of using a junior hacksaw being carefull not to saw the pipe itself then prise the cut open using a suitable screwdriver .
Stuart
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Oyl?
LOL, good spot that I missed it first time round!
John
Slide a steel drift up the pipe. Using this as an anvil, work round the olive tapping it lightly with a small hammer. That expands the olive and it falls off ready for re-use.
John
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Junior hacksaw, then a screw driver to split it the last bit.
Just so, or a fine flat file in confined spaces.
P.
If you can get access to the upstream part of the tube. Run a loose compression nut of the right size down the pipe and tap the nut from behind with a hammer in the direction you want the olive to go.
Problem with hacksaw way is that the slightest nick on the pipe and you could get a leak.
Get a spanner that just fits over the pipe and use it as a slide hammer on the nut that goes over the olive.
Yes I agree with that.
Get a spanner that just fits over the pipe and use it as a slide
hammer on the nut that goes over the olive.
Or an adjustable spanner, slightly heavier for the tapping action.Alway worked for me. Wouldn't trust myself with a hacksaw
-- Alec
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How is Aberdeen? ;-)
More senile ramblings. Sad we all know. They should make sure they go to the drop-in centre most of the time.
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