Help me with the name of a tool?

[Kerry_Dee]

Im looking for the name of a plumbing tool. Basically you put it in the end of a pipe and hammer it and it widens the pipe. Does anyone know the name of it? Thanks.

 

[newcastle phill]

Yes you are wrong.
It is still in british standards and verified by gas safe tec support to be ok after i questioned them re the matter

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Yes you are wrong.
It is still in british standards and verified by gas safe tec support to be ok after i questioned them re the matter

when did you check with gas safe because im sure i saw a topic on here not so long ago saying gas safe dont allow it as it thins and weakens the copper

 

[zzzjim]

Pipe splitting tool , Only use on quality stuff !!
(that's probably nothing bought by tight landlords recently)

 

[SimonG]

when did you check with gas safe because im sure i saw a topic on here not so long ago saying gas safe dont allow it as it thins and weakens the copper

I thought the same Shaun.

 

[newcastle phill]

A few weeks ago. And it is still in the british standards.
This has been done to death. I quoted the standard in a previous post

 

[newcastle phill]

Bs 6891 7.2

 

[newcastle phill]

Dunno if you can make that out

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Dunno if you can make that out

yea but thats not gas or wras? which are the two main ones

 

[newcastle phill]

Its from the gas safe website engineers bit
If you log on you will see
that is the standard to which we work with copper
Bit of a giveaway on the top corner - if its not gas there is no hope left [emoji1]

 

[newcastle phill]

 

[lame plumber]

You haven't a freeze in Devon then lame? A drift comes in very handy then.

All we get when it snows are snow drifts, but any frozen pipes just get cut out and replaced, beggar messing around with formers when its cold, fingers are to valuable to smack with a hammer 🙂

 

[newcastle phill]

Ahh you see i have a hammer free set hah.

 

[Ray Stafford]

All we get when it snows are snow drifts, but any frozen pipes just get cut out and replaced, beggar messing around with formers when its cold, fingers are to valuable to smack with a hammer 🙂

And there was me thinking you were a proper plumber!

 

[lame plumber]

And there was me thinking you were a proper plumber!

bit of a buggered plumber ......... bad knees, back and wrist, so prefer light work now, you know, jobs that lighten their wallets 🙂

 

[jtsplumbing]

Picked up a set (leaver type) from a car boot for £10, useful when coming across old size pipe for making adaptor.

 

[newcastle phill]

yea but thats not gas or wras? which are the two main ones

It is...

 

[j0mpst0rt]

i read the 1st part of the thread. it made me laugh lots 🙂

 

[jtsplumbing]

These were quite popular back in the day, almost every plumber carried them (Early 70s), mind you the copper pipe was a much better quality, so tool was easy to use.

 

[Robert Tyrrell]

When I were a lad it was called a swaging tool. I've still got my originals from '82

 

[erpkid]

Always have them in the van , the lever type for normal joints and the hammer in ones for making a slip coupling plus a mapp gas cylinder for quicker annealing.

 

[1Steven]

Used to use a little bit of tallow on the swaging tool as lub. Was still teaching it in college of Northwest London 2001

 

[Leo21]

Lame plumber, now that's the name of a tool.

 

[Dotty]

Lame plumber, now that's the name of a tool.

Harsh but fair.

 

[lame plumber]

Lame plumber, now that's the name of a tool.

gonna use my swaging tool on you matey, negative tallow lube, after I get it out of croppie's dark place 🙂

 

[Leo21]

gonna use my swaging tool on you matey, negative tallow lube, after I get it out of croppie's dark place 🙂

Promises, promises.