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that's exactly what multi-tools are tamz, toys, they can just about handle floorboards in a dolls house, but no real use in plumbing.
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aye the old conex spanner, i wonder if you can still buy one, had mine for a good 30 years, would hate to loose it. i've got 2 other proper spanners that you could never replace, bought them when i was an apprentice for 10p each at the barra's. quality spanners are hard to get nowadays.
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tamz
Bills toolstore?
My old conex spanner is in an old tool box somewhere in the garage. I got it as a freeby when i was at collage when the Conex rep came in to tell us we didn't need boss white on their stuff :lol:
Used it for many years but it just found its way into one of the not used very often boxes of tools. It was a good spanner tho.
My old conex spanner is in an old tool box somewhere in the garage. I got it as a freeby when i was at collage when the Conex rep came in to tell us we didn't need boss white on their stuff :lol:
Used it for many years but it just found its way into one of the not used very often boxes of tools. It was a good spanner tho.
no, not bills toolstore, i got the spanners from one of the stalls. the barra's is not like it used to be, all fake stuff nowadays cig's, cd's etc. give it a few more years & it'll be gone.
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Bernie2
Yes I have found a lot of modern stuff is rubbish as well, until the middle seventies the local council demanded compression fittings be used on their new houses. So a Conex spanner was usually welded into your hand all day. I still use one on the odd job I do now and then, but the number of backnuts it now fits are getting fewer and fewer. I bough ta new 22 x 15 spanner from Tool station recently, its good but not small and compact like the Conex, which could even reach under a washbasin to release the tap adaptor nuts.
Anyway, nearly all pipework today seems to be end feed. Its cheap I suppose, but when you look at some jobs the number of elbows they use is fantastic I wonder if they calculate flow resistance or just do it?
I find with modern tools, that they may be good ideas, but the metal they make them from is usually very weak and they often round out or break.
The old Footprints still serve well, you can drop them, stand on them and they still come back smiling. The pump gland pliers are still highly useful. But then with so much push fit about you do not need them as much as you once did. They were great until the location grooves wore down and they slipped crushing your fingers.
I must admit though, the modern crows foot or washbasin wrench seem better. The old cast ones seldom fit anything properly now. You can tend to have a go with them though but they slip and risk breaking the basin. I tended in later years to use a box spanner for tightening tap back nuts when dressing basins, tops or baths. But they were a bit useless when on repair work and the tap was already piped up. The pipework gets in the way. I use an old Monument swinging arm crow foot, but its fiddly. The modern bear hug crow foot looks good, but the cost? And I suspect the jaws and head may need more room to work than you find under many modern basins.
GOOD TO SEE YOUR STILL POSTING TAMZ
Anyway, nearly all pipework today seems to be end feed. Its cheap I suppose, but when you look at some jobs the number of elbows they use is fantastic I wonder if they calculate flow resistance or just do it?
I find with modern tools, that they may be good ideas, but the metal they make them from is usually very weak and they often round out or break.
The old Footprints still serve well, you can drop them, stand on them and they still come back smiling. The pump gland pliers are still highly useful. But then with so much push fit about you do not need them as much as you once did. They were great until the location grooves wore down and they slipped crushing your fingers.
I must admit though, the modern crows foot or washbasin wrench seem better. The old cast ones seldom fit anything properly now. You can tend to have a go with them though but they slip and risk breaking the basin. I tended in later years to use a box spanner for tightening tap back nuts when dressing basins, tops or baths. But they were a bit useless when on repair work and the tap was already piped up. The pipework gets in the way. I use an old Monument swinging arm crow foot, but its fiddly. The modern bear hug crow foot looks good, but the cost? And I suspect the jaws and head may need more room to work than you find under many modern basins.
GOOD TO SEE YOUR STILL POSTING TAMZ
i love my multitool too. The blades though....Pricey!!!
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Marty32
Can these cut cast iron soil stack pipe or am I better off using an angle grinder?
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TBServices
In a word, no lol. It would prob take three weeks.
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Marty32
Thanks a lot for confirming - so is an angle grinder the only way?
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TBServices
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Billy Bob Bob
not if you know where to but them
http://www.ukplumbersforums.co.uk/plumbing-forum/33607-multi-tool-bits-bosch-fein-etc.html
the old man and the tart use a multitool i just use a axe
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tamz
Buy yourself a decent grinder or if you want to get through it in one cut, a stihl saw. Usually available on a Friday night in you local pub for under £200-
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dontknowitall
Chain saws might also be available on Friday nights.
I used to live in a village and my dad was a prosecuting solicitor (the one who gives the police side of the story to courts).
Back in the 1980's he prosecuted a couple of village blokes who were attacking each other with running, petrol chain saws. I never did hear if one or both ended up in hospital (or the local asylum).
I used to live in a village and my dad was a prosecuting solicitor (the one who gives the police side of the story to courts).
Back in the 1980's he prosecuted a couple of village blokes who were attacking each other with running, petrol chain saws. I never did hear if one or both ended up in hospital (or the local asylum).
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TBServices
I haven't used the multitool, but I have other 12v stuff and it's awesome. I hardly ever get my 18v drill out of the van these days.
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