Thanks for that advice. Sorry, I was out-of-pocket for a couple days, but do have a valve in need of attention soon.
On Oct 13, 2009, at 8:33 PM, Bob Kennedy wrote: > You won't burn your fingers off, take it from someone who has been > cooked too many times to remember. It only takes propane to remove a > shut off. I've lost my grip on an oxy acetylene torch and the flame > ran across my hand and fingers of the other hand on the way down. > That is so hot it almost feels cold for a very short time... I > thought they were going to start calling me Char lee. > > Don't be afraid of working with propane, just be respectful. When I > work in a tight place that could cause a problem, I have an aluminum > cake pan I use as a heat shield. I put the rim against the wall and > the bottom closest to the flame. That gives some dead space for the > heat to dissipate and I haven't lost a house yet to my plumbing. > Lost one to a chimney fire, but I had some help with that... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Scott Howell > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 5:58 AM > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Plumbing rough in > > Dan, > > I just cut them off. I haven't had enough experience with a torch to > trust myself not to burn the house down or my fingers off. grin > The former gate valves were soldered on. However, when I had my > previous townhouse, they had compression fittings on those old valves > and I was able to just replace those valves with ball valves since the > compression ring wasn't going to come off. I swear by these valves, I > have not had one go bad on me yet. In fact I'm going to replace the > old gate valve on the supply line for the water heater since the old > one amazed me and held, but barely and it required a set of plyers to > move it. Don't want frozen valves in an emergency. grin > > On Oct 12, 2009, at 9:41 PM, Dan Rossi wrote: > > > Scott, > > > > You said that you ran around your house replacing all the shut-offs > > with > > the ball valves. How did you remove the old valves? Did you heat > them > > and pull them apart? Or did you cut them off and hope for enough > > slack? > > Or, were the old one's compression fittings also and you were able > > to pry > > them apart? > > > > Just curious. > > > > -- > > Blue skies. > > Dan Rossi > > Carnegie Mellon University. > > E-Mail: [email protected] > > Tel: (412) 268-9081 > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
