Seeking "Split Ring" Compression Fitting Spanner

[Vortex5]

I need a spanner like this:

is I would like it this weekend!

Can anybody tell me if any of the "sheds" sell them, please?

D

[Usenet Nutter]

Err...I'm guessing you don't have a TS near you then ?

Motor Factors or Car Accessory shops/Halfords might have open ended Spanners/Ring Keys in those sizes which is more likely what they will know them as .Problem might be in getting one with the two sizes on the one spanner .

[The Natural Philosopher]

This is a job for an ordinary or ring spanner and an

ANGLE GRINDER.

[Steve Walker]

You swine, you beat me to it.... :o)

[The Medway Handyman]

First one of the year, wll done that man!

[The Medway Handyman]

Don't know, but they look really useful - I'm going to order one!

[Tim W]

Vortex5 wibbled on Saturday 02 January 2010 17:10

If you are anywhere near Robertsbridge, East Sussex, you're welcome to borrow mine (seriously, email addy valid).

But no, I haven't seen them in B&Q or Homobase or Wickes.

[Tim W]

The Medway Handyman wibbled on Saturday 02 January 2010 18:06

Beware. They only fit a certain selection of nuts. They don't fit 15mm nuts on Peglar full bore valves - those nuts are bigger.

For other jobs, I use a pair of slimline high quality adjustable spanners.

[Vortex5]

Tim,

Thanks for the kind offer.

Immediate pressure is off now and I have ordered one.

D

[Vortex5]

For the record I am in the process of implementing a major domestic heating upgrade (thermal store) and have used lots of those nice interlocking pipe clips that allow you to run parallel pipes very close to one another.

Problem is that this clipping technology looks great but makes any compression joint utterly inaccessible. Example here:

the need for one of these funky spanners. Today's leak was entirely due to incompetence on my part but now I want to check every nut before "going live".

D

[Dave]

Spoken like a true pro :-) Looks like the angle grinder has survived into 2010 then. That is the second called for use of it in DIY :-)

Dave

[The Medway Handyman]

Nice job that.

[Tim W]

The Medway Handyman wibbled on Saturday 02 January 2010 23:08

Seconded - nothing like a bit of neatly done copper.

[Vortex5]

Thanks,

To many people it seems rather perverse but I love plumbing.

Work in progress as of yesterday afternoon is here:

fannying about with heating systems in frosty weather is potentially very disruptive and unpopular with the family.....hence the Hep20 lashup to keep the house warm.

Next stage is to remove all the old controls and plumbing (the white bits) reroute the boiler connections, slide in and connect the thermal store. The primary circuit will ultimately be about 600 litres capacity.....and I really do not want to have to drain it down in the worst case scenario to fix a leak, so I need to take my time.

If I had one of these spanners I could potentially have finished today....but will have to defer a week because I have a "proper" job to go to tomorrow. Ho hum.

D

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember The Natural Philosopher saying something like:

Only for a clot. The wall strength of a cut ring spanner is shit.

[The Medway Handyman]

[Doctor Drivel]

Bends. Looks a very good job. Congrats.

[Vortex5]

Bends.

Thermal store will be pushed into that corner.

My goal has been to have zero inaccessible joints. This won't be 100% true because the 90 degree boiler primary corner will need to use solder fittings...I have no 28mm bender (yet)

D

[ARWadsworth]

It looks fine is is very neat.Well done

Can I ask why you dislike soldered joints? I prefer them over a compression joint anyday.

Adam

[The Medway Handyman]

BTW, could you let me know what the spanner is like when it arrives?