How To Get A Broken Brass Fitting Out

Got It** Removing brass plumbing fixtures from steel "T"

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• Start date Aug nineteen, 2012

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I need to remove a brass hose bib from a galvanized "T". Information technology's really in there.
I tried heating with propane and MAPP gas. No joy.

Any tricks?
Should I heat the steel over the brass or vice versa?

I actually tore a hole in the fitting trying to wrench it out. Now I have to become the bib out to supersede it and then I can plow my h2o back on.
The rest of the plumbing is as corroded/tight then it doesn't look similar I can take parts off upstream (without damaging something else) and work my manner to the bib.

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Is the hose bib soldered or screwed in?

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Endeavour using a pipe nipple wrench. If that does work, apply a pocket-sized hack saw blade and work at it slowly till y'all cut a couple of groves through the brass with out damaging the iron threads, so use the nipple wrench or screw commuter to knock it out.

Or, cut the length of pipe that y'all have access to, and spin the tee out and replace it with a new tee. Use 2 new length of pipe and a coupling (coupling must be accessible, and expose if the pipping is for gas).

Some other method is to replace the length in question with flex gas pipping.

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Is the hose bib soldered or screwed in?

Information technology has to be threaded, considering brass and iron combination can't be braze, solder, or weld.

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It'due south a threaded hose bib for water.
I take a nipple tool only I can't go the torque I tin can from a pipage wrench.

I got it though. I heated the hell out of the T, sprayed Kroil and dripped candle wax on the threads. Got my biggest pipe wrench. I figured if I tore anything up, it needed to exist replaced any fashion. Used ane pipe wrench to steady the rest of the plumbing and pulled like hell on the other. It slowly started moving. More than heat and Kroil and information technology was off. The other fitting are not leaking so I am crossing my fingers.

Only for future reference, estrus the brass or the steel?

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All this for a skunk.
Nosotros have a skunk family that strolls past one or twice a week.
I bought a sprinkler that is movement activated to spray the suckers as the walk by. Bib had a bad packing on the stem and I figured I might as well replace the bib.

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But for future reference, oestrus the brass or the steel?

Always heat the female plumbing equipment.

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Whatever's on the outside(female) I think. Or just beat the shit out of it with an ax. That never fails.

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Try using a pipe nipple wrench. If that does piece of work, use a pocket-size hack saw blade and work at it slowly till you cut a couple of groves through the brass with out damaging the atomic number 26 threads, and so use the nipple wrench or spiral driver to knock information technology out.

Or, cut the length of pipe that you lot have access to, and spin the tee out and replace information technology with a new tee. Use two new length of pipe and a coupling (coupling must exist accessible, and expose if the pipping is for gas).

Another method is to replace the length in question with flex gas pipping.

Edit: I mean union instead of coupling.

I though you broke the brass right clean off the tee fitting, hence you demand the desperate measure out above.

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If you ever have a problem similar that again, estrus the female side (as stated above), but of course, as you're heating it, estrus will exist transferred to the male fitting every bit well. Carefully pour water on the male side, as close as you can, avoiding the female side. As it contracts every bit it cools, it often makes it easy plenty to turn (with tools, of course, too hot for skin.)

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If y'all ever take a trouble like that again, estrus the female side (every bit stated above), simply of course, as you're heating it, rut volition be transferred to the male plumbing fixtures likewise. Advisedly pour water on the male side, as shut every bit yous can, fugitive the female side. As it contracts as it cools, it often makes it easy plenty to turn (with tools, of course, also hot for skin.)

Sounds reasonable. I was assuming that the brass would expand quicker than the steel, there-by wedging itself in the T.

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Smithers: Oh, thank you sir! For three days I've had nothing to read but clock setting instructions. 'Using the suspension leap higher up the pendulum leader, hang the pendulum on the pendulum baby-sit,' GRRRR!

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