How to removing valve with hemp paste on??

[beesley121]

Hi guy,

I'm trying to replace a 2 port valve with hemp and paste on it. I tried everything to get it to move but it won't budge

Any ideas other than cutting the pipe as it's 28mm and I don't want to have to buy a length and fittings for a little job

Help please!!

 

[Simon F]

I have a big adjustable and big set of grips that come in very handy at such times.
could you cut into the nut to loosen it?

 

[jtsplumbing]

Lots of Heat & a hammer ! Get it nice & hot then a few hits on the brass nut usely shifts it !!

 

[Mike Jackson]

I'll second the heat.

 

[Bernie2]

Try WD40. If no good, heat. I do not really know what is in WD40 to do it but I think I recall it softens the hemp even if the paste and have gone hard.

 

[Roger Welton]

Heat, Hammer and swearing usually does the trick

 

[REDSAW]

nut splitter?

 

[Phil]

Heat, leverage and brute force. Get it hot enough and it always shifts as long as your not melting anything in the viscinity.

 

[Rickster123]

Another vote for heat. Get the blow lamp on it.

 

[Doodlebug]

Lots of heat and when you get your Gordon's on try not to squeeze the nut, grip tight but not squeeze if you know what I mean lol


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[Dannypipe]

I had THE most stubborn immersion heater today.

Tried heat, then crack it release spray, then pipe freezing spray, then heat again, and shocking it with a lump hammer...... in the end I had to cut two slots into the body of the element so when I put the immersion spanner on it, and levered (with 24" stilli's I should add) it eventually cracked and went.

Moral or the story, persistance over comes resistance!! LOL

 

[Dotty]

Heat and brute force every time.

 

[Gmaservices]

I made myself an immersion spanner out of an old box spanner, I welded the box spanner into a pipe about a foot long with a 2 foot handle on it .
hard to explain but it's never struggled on any thing since!

I had THE most stubborn immersion heater today.

Tried heat, then crack it release spray, then pipe freezing spray, then heat again, and shocking it with a lump hammer...... in the end I had to cut two slots into the body of the element so when I put the immersion spanner on it, and levered (with 24" stilli's I should add) it eventually cracked and went.

Moral or the story, persistance over comes resistance!! LOL

 

[Dannypipe]

I made myself an immersion spanner out of an old box spanner, I welded the box spanner into a pipe about a foot long with a 2 foot handle on it .
hard to explain but it's never struggled on any thing since!

My immersion spanner is a box spanner, that I fix a bog set of two foot stilsons to. I was gonna bend the cylinder before I got it out with brute force alone. I'm not a small bloke and I was pushing on it with every ounce of strength I had!! Never had one like it before.

I like your idea, and would like one myself!!

There was a battered B&Q immersion spanner in the airing cupboard!! Someone else had tried it before me, and bent their cheapy spanner!

 

[Bernie2]

The problem with excessive force is that you can tear the copper cylinder. Also if you use heat on a cylinder insulated with foam you are asking for trouble.