That words, as does a 5 foot piece of pipe, or a big hammer. It all depends on how much access you have.

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Bern, did it loosen?

That is how my dad threaded 2" pipe with a "block die".

A VERY good way to do a "face plant". Especially, since that is tightening it.



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m & m;

I believe the earth rotated around the pipe!

The longest lever I actually used was a 10' length of 3" on a 4 foot with both me and my 6'6" helper 'bouncing' the end ~ we were unscrewing an old 2" wrought iron gate valve from an A-106 pipe !

? Why did we not simply cut it off with a SawZall ?

Probably because we were young and very very stupid !



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If you want to make that fitting loosey-goosey; I would use a 10 foot cheater pipe and a little dab of this stuff:

Works for me.

Aren't you worried that all that force and pressure would break something else on an old piping system instead of the specific threaded joint you wanna take apart?

Is it better sometimes to give it a few hits with a 5lb. hammer instead of more leverage?

whatever unscrews - unscrews

if it breaks - it was already weak and 'ready to go'

whatever we break we will fix

? how would YOU take it apart ?

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quote; Is it better sometimes to give it a few hits with a 5lb. hammer instead of more leverage?

Sometimes it is "AND" not "instead of". WE do whatever it takes because as bernabeau says, "If we break it we fix it".

I think also at some point it is no longer 100% about solving that problem but gets personal between you and the stubborn joint. You want to take it apart mano o mano and resorting to a saw is an admission of defeat.

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It also means you have to rethread the pipe.