Taking a pushfit apart - Grrr!

Have you tried them with a pipe? I would expect that once a pipe is in place you would be able to pull the red bit toward the body of the fitting to release it.

Yes they are. You push the red bit towards the fitting. But only with a pipe in! [You can't demount a pipe which isn't there, anyway!]

DO NOT use pushfit fittings. They are big trouble. Use brass compression joints.

If you post to Usenet as "Drivel".

Only if you post to Usenet as "Drivel".

You forgot to add, "Don't use a hacksaw to cut plastic tube."

Please eff off as you are a complete plantpot.

I would add further, "Don't even use a hacksaw to cut copper tube"

Good advice. This loon uses a hammer to cut pipe.

Stick a scrap of pipe in and try it. The pipe will prevent the wobble and allow you to apply the force evenly to open up the grip ring. On the JG ones the grip ring is mounted in the plastic bit so doesn't wobble in the same way.

Well I suppose in dribble land that is progress of sorts... quite why you progressed from a hacksaw to a hammer after all the times we told you how to do it properly however is a mystery.

Let me guess, your pushfit fittings still leak after you have cut the pipe with a hammer, and that is still the fault of the fittings?

You know dribble, it is probably safer if you give up trying to do practical stuff since it is obviously beyond you. Why not just become an armchair "expert" instead?

Plank, don't suppose as you will always get it wrong.

Kind of you to say so... I don't suppose I will always get it wrong either.

Any time Plank.

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

Plant eff a are you off pot.

You should use pushfit. Please use them. Replace all your joinsts with pushfit now.

Only English spoken here.

Please eff off.

Is "f*ck" another word you are unable to spell?

Please eff off as you are a plantpot.

Thanks for the replies.

I have tried it with a pipe, and it really doesn't operate as well as other pushfits. The red collar doesn't slide in evenly and you have to use quite some force to drag the pipe out again. I guess technically that makes it demountabele but will all the grinding and scraping, it just doesn't sound like you're doing a good job.

The reason I was asking (apart from the obvious desire not to bugger up a new fitting) is that we're replacing the bathroom soon but need to do some running repairs, so I was looking for a reusable solution.

Thanks again.