Olive puller or hacksaw blade

Even the new formula nitromors will remove paint effectively so provided there is enough pipe between wall and valve, you may still be able to solder a 10/15 reducer in place.

Also there are compression reducers available -

Just use the hacksaw at 45 deg. to miss the pipe, don't go right through, lever olive open with screwdriver. I devised this method when changing valves (of course the new ones didn't fit!) that had a fixed length sticking out of a concrete floor.

That was my plan of attack:-)

F*ck

If space is tight, a dremel type device with a cutting disk can be handy. Again, avoid cutting all the way through.

Tim

That is the method I use.

I saw someone try to use mole grips.

They slipped. He ended up in A&E with a nasty cut in his head. It was one of those things you could some how see was going to happen but couldn?t stop. The company were most embarrassed but I was more concerned he was ok, the blood came out of the carpet.

Almost all my radiators are supplied by 10mm copper and use valves with a 10mm compression fitting - no reducers required.

I have five now, going from finger sized to full sized, two of them cordless. Except that I just blew one set of rotor windings on the Proxxon :-(

I think my mate has already bought them.

Returning them may be less work than redoing the tails of the pipework?