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Post by DIYDafty on May 29, 2024 21:31:29 GMT
Hello All So I was trying to see if I was getting any let by through the gas switch when I noticed mine was not a standard switch at all (see attached). Therefore, I tried to get it off so that I could take it to the merchants for a modern replacement. Well, I got my stilsons on bottom nut but it wouldn't give at all. Then I had a good idea. I'd heat it with my mapp gas blow torch to free the bugger. I waited until the pipe was dull red but it still wouldn't turn ! So I've given in a bit but plan tomorrow to remove that fabric and cut into the pipe with my angle grinder. That way, I'll have a bit of pipe stuck into the fitting which should help them determine which switch to give me. So as the subject says really, any tips on how to keep it level so I make a clean cut ? Attachments:
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Post by tomplum on May 29, 2024 21:57:23 GMT
Tannoy announcement " Dick Puller to the front desk please " ,,,,,,,  |
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Post by DIYDafty on May 29, 2024 22:49:19 GMT
I know Dick knows his onions and doesn't suffer fools but is he the most experienced at working an angle grinder? Maybe get a vial and tape it on to the side of the grinder?
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Post by dickpuller on May 30, 2024 5:37:11 GMT
No point in pussy footing around son, get in there with a cutting torch!!!......Talking of pussy.
That reminds me of a job years ago. Kit Kat(he was called that because he’d only 4 fingers) & I were working in this Chinky Take-Away.
We were altering the gas service & Meter in the Kitchen. The ECV was at the Front Door & an AECV at the meter.
The Kat was in the back & I was going out to the Van. I knew the AECV was off. Kat shouts ‘is it OK to unsolder off this YP12’?
’Yeah, go for it son’ I shouts back.
Well the next thing was a flame belting out the Kitchen Door into the Take-Away. It’s was like a flame thrower!! All I could hear was the Kat screaming!! He’d torched the YP12 on the Meter inlet below the AECV, not the one on the outlet!!!😂😂😂😂
I was like Usain Bolt getting to the ECV at the Front Door!!!.......Got the Gas off & walked back into the Kitchen. There was the Kat, as white as a sheet, sitting on the floor. I’d never laughed so much since the Wife Died😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Post by crowsfoot on May 30, 2024 9:43:26 GMT
Hello All So I was trying to see if I was getting any let by through the gas switch when I noticed mine was not a standard switch at all (see attached). Therefore, I tried to get it off so that I could take it to the merchants for a modern replacement. Well, I got my stilsons on bottom nut but it wouldn't give at all. Then I had a good idea. I'd heat it with my mapp gas blow torch to free the bugger. I waited until the pipe was dull red but it still wouldn't turn ! So I've given in a bit but plan tomorrow to remove that fabric and cut into the pipe with my angle grinder. That way, I'll have a bit of pipe stuck into the fitting which should help them determine which switch to give me. So as the subject says really, any tips on how to keep it level so I make a clean cut ? I'm not fooled DD, you've got that picture off the internet. When I was an first year apprentice I had the copper hot and cold pipes to solder in a boxing that ran side by side with the gas pipe! I put the heat mat behind the H&C pipes with the gas pipe behind the heat mat and out of reach of the flame. One of the other plumbers walked past saying "you want to be careful with that this natural gas can be strange stuff". Shitting bricks, I closed my eyes and turned the blow lamp up to max and soldered the H&C pipes as fast as I could half expecting the whole house to blow up!  |
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Post by battle1066 on May 30, 2024 18:08:31 GMT
Hello All So I was trying to see if I was getting any let by through the gas switch when I noticed mine was not a standard switch at all (see attached). Therefore, I tried to get it off so that I could take it to the merchants for a modern replacement. Well, I got my stilsons on bottom nut but it wouldn't give at all. Then I had a good idea. I'd heat it with my mapp gas blow torch to free the bugger. I waited until the pipe was dull red but it still wouldn't turn ! So I've given in a bit but plan tomorrow to remove that fabric and cut into the pipe with my angle grinder. That way, I'll have a bit of pipe stuck into the fitting which should help them determine which switch to give me. So as the subject says really, any tips on how to keep it level so I make a clean cut ? I would be interested to see what’s behind that fabric as I’ve not seen that technique used up here. Also I’m puzzled at what you’ve identified as a switch as I only see a gas meter, anaconda flexi and 1/4 turn valve. |
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Post by joinerjohn on May 30, 2024 22:16:25 GMT
Yeah I like to heat gas pipes up to a dull red colour too, then light my ciggy off the hot pipe 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Post by dickpuller on May 31, 2024 7:54:20 GMT
When I started my Time in the early 70’s, there was all the North Sea Gas conversations being done. The Gas Board used these Irish Navvy Firms to do alterations & upgrades. Still lots of MI Galv. Pipe & fittings used then. ‘
’Yer man’ the Mick would disconnect the live service & stick a bit of Denso Tape over the open end, before fitted the new altered pipes were attached.
Smoking a ‘Rollie’ of course, they were a rough mob & a bunch of soap Dodgers - they were a manky bunch!!
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Post by crowsfoot on May 31, 2024 10:35:45 GMT
Hello All So I was trying to see if I was getting any let by through the gas switch when I noticed mine was not a standard switch at all (see attached). Therefore, I tried to get it off so that I could take it to the merchants for a modern replacement. Well, I got my stilsons on bottom nut but it wouldn't give at all. Then I had a good idea. I'd heat it with my mapp gas blow torch to free the bugger. I waited until the pipe was dull red but it still wouldn't turn ! So I've given in a bit but plan tomorrow to remove that fabric and cut into the pipe with my angle grinder. That way, I'll have a bit of pipe stuck into the fitting which should help them determine which switch to give me. So as the subject says really, any tips on how to keep it level so I make a clean cut ? I would be interested to see what’s behind that fabric as I’ve not seen that technique used up here. Also I’m puzzled at what you’ve identified as a switch as I only see a gas meter, anaconda flexi and 1/4 turn valve. DD knows what he's doing battle. He calls the gas lever valve a switch then tells us he's checking for "let by"! The average man on the street would not know what "let by" is! He puts these things in just to test us! |
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Post by crowsfoot on May 31, 2024 12:19:38 GMT
No point in pussy footing around son, get in there with a cutting torch!!!......Talking of pussy. That reminds me of a job years ago. Kit Kat(he was called that because he’d only 4 fingers) & I were working in this Chinky Take-Away. We were altering the gas service & Meter in the Kitchen. The ECV was at the Front Door & an AECV at the meter. The Kat was in the back & I was going out to the Van. I knew the AECV was off. Kat shouts ‘is it OK to unsolder off this YP12’? ’Yeah, go for it son’ I shouts back. Well the next thing was a flame belting out the Kitchen Door into the Take-Away. It’s was like a flame thrower!! All I could hear was the Kat screaming!! He’d torched the YP12 on the Meter inlet below the AECV, not the one on the outlet!!!😂😂😂😂 I was like Usain Bolt getting to the ECV at the Front Door!!!.......Got the Gas off & walked back into the Kitchen. There was the Kat, as white as a sheet, sitting on the floor. I’d never laughed so much since the Wife Died😂😂😂😂😂😂 That's an absolute killer tale Dick. No wonder Kat was screaming. When you accidently drill through a gas pipe I would almost Jump out of my skin, so unsoldering a live gas fitting with the supply live and then igniting would probably be enough to bring on a coronary heart attack! Still, it was the kind of thing that we plumbers got up to in the name of bonus and before gas-safe registration was ever thought up. JJ. I don't think heating up a copper live gas-pipe would have any effect on the gas inside (unless you actually melted it) ,however, it's not something that I would advise. |
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Post by DIYDafty on May 31, 2024 19:29:39 GMT
I would be interested to see what’s behind that fabric as I’ve not seen that technique used up here. Also I’m puzzled at what you’ve identified as a switch as I only see a gas meter, anaconda flexi and 1/4 turn valve. He calls the gas lever valve a switch then tells us he's checking for "let by"! The average man on the street would not know what "let by" is! He puts these things in just to test us! I wish I did. Of course the tale about cracking into the wrong side of the incoming gas pipe was just a tale. I suppose using terms like switch but also "let by" gave it away....Good that it prompted a real tale from Dick though. Sounded funny though - God knows what you'd do if you had no way of turning it off - evacuate the street ? I don't know what an AECV is (automatic emergency control valve ?). |
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Post by dickpuller on Jun 1, 2024 9:38:16 GMT
100% true story about the Chinky Takeaway.
Kit Kat unfortunately drowned whilst working in a Distillery, he fell into one of the Vats, he did manage to get out & go to the Toilet twice before his ultimate demise. RIP Kit Kat😞😞
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