Fastest way to remove PEX from crimp fittings
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- Опубликовано: 12 апр 2019
- I show the easiest methods I've found to re-use brass PEX fittings after you make a bad crimp, or in my situation, have to redo someone else's work and will reuse the fittings.
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This is exactly what I am looking for. The easiest way to remove a copper ring without purchasing a crimp removing tool. Thanks for sharing.
Great, and you might just try using the torch without cutting the copper ring as long as the fitting is brass.
Very good. Quick, clear, no music.
Thanks. I used the torch for removing fittings from a line and was able to re use same piece of line and fitting with out even cutting the ends off. Great video
Thank you! Helped with an RV tankless water heater installation!
Thanks! I was dreading this task until I saw your video. You save me a lot of time.
Glad I could help!
Worked perfectly! Thanks for the tips
Sweet….good video, well explained, and good advice…cheers
Excellent video! Those are great tips!
thanks for the scoring info!
MUCH NEEDED...!!!!!
Thanks! Very helpful. My fitting was in a very tight spot in our RV. I used a butane lighter on the fitting for about 10 seconds and the tubing came right off. Awesome!
Great! Just make sure you don't reuse that part of the pipe since there will be ridges inside that won't compress the same the second time.
@@MyFortressConstruction I was wondering about this, thanks for the info. Nice concise video with great tips too!
Excellent video. Just my own 2 cents. Practice first! Get an old piece of pex, fitting, and a ring and practice before doing it on pieces you wanna keep.
Great info on PEX. Thanks
Foe the Oetiker style, a good sharp pair of nipping pliers works great. Just clamp cut & twist with the pliers then slit pipe end with razor knife (always wear cut-protective gloves) then twist out coupling.
they sell a tool at home depot to remove the cooper rings it works real good even on plastic fittings. the problem i have is removing the cinch ring those things are a bear. I think this method would work great. Also keep it up your making some real good videos very informant i think it's going to take off.
Yes, the problem I have with the tool you're talking about is that it sometimes scores the PEX fitting and doesn't work on 1" fittings, at least the one I used. Thanks for the encouragement, I just try to post videos of things I don't see a lot of information on. I never edit them though so they are a little boring for a consumer. But if one person is helped, that's what it's there for!
@@MyFortressConstruction good to know I haven't had to remove any 1" fittings yet. I have the shark bite tool. Home depot has switched to another brand and I'm not sure if they are any good.
Thank you for sharing your method. Very helpful!!
the copper ring is a clamp connection. this is a crimp connection. and the way you remove a steel crimp ring is you just grab on to the node with pliers and you twist it about 45 degrees. you will hear a click, this means the connection is now broken.
super helpful!
Perfect...thx!
For the clamp I took my wire cutters and peeled away the clamp where it overlaps
I realize this is 4 years old, but can you reuse the pex pipe where you removed the fitting or is it no good now? I have a very slow drip (the drip dries before it hits the gound) at a connection right above my pex pipe, at the shutoff valve. I need to add more teflon tape so I need to unscrew it from the pex fitting. Will the pex pipe pull off the fitting so I can install a new crimp ring? Thank you
You can't reuse PEX pipe after it's been crimped, but you're only losing about 3/4" of pipe if you cut to the very end of the current fitting. Hopefully there's enough to get a new shut-off on.
If you use the heat method can you put a fitting back into the pex that was warmed? Or should that part of the pex be cut off? I have to replace the shutoff valve to a toilet and there is very little pex coming out of the floor so I want to save as much as I can.
Unfortunately you cannot reuse the PEX that was previously crimped. When I only have a little bit of PEX, such as in your situation, I cut it right below where the fitting ends and if you don't have enough coming through, you will have to add some more onto it. Hopefully there's a crawlspace and it's not concrete, though you only need 3/4" of PEX sticking through to make a crimp.
So how do you reconnect all your pex tubing with that much tubing cut off?
I don't like to use couplings and so I usually cut from one fitting to the next so I can replace the whole line. Not always possible.
doesn't pex make a tool to break off those rings?
That's the ring, not the fitting. They make a tool that does that btw. Great video. Thumbs up
Heat gun/Hair dryer will work anywhere with out burning anything.
A lot of the time when rough-in plumbing is being done there's no electricity yet.
I was trying to find out how to take a hex off my old lady.
Why did this show up??
Well... Yeah... Please don't cut or burn her.
@@MyFortressConstruction no, like a spell.
@@donethat8761 I am now backing veeery slowly out of this conversation.........
aviator (tin) snips works well to cut the crimp
Huh, never tried since it's so flat and you'd be cutting at the wrong angle. I'll have to try next time.
Great when on a table but in crawl space and 6 inches from rim joist it's another story.
That's true. Everything under a house is difficult.
What's a score?
If I mentioned "scoring" in the video it would mean making a cut on the surface of something.
YOU SHOULD EDIT OUT THE STANLEY KNIFE PART... The tourists, housewives, and yuppsters are just gunna hurt somebody or mess up a fitting. Been trying to find a vid to send to my brother where someone does this correctly... you made the cut. Yup...I did a pun..You should see what the internet morons are up to out there...its hysterical.
Nice information video but be careful . Scared me when I saw his thumb in the path of that razor. How many pex fittings to pay for a trip to urgent care?
Hope you don't slip with that knife (@ 2:45), cutting towards your thumb ;)
Yep, never a good idea. I think I probably realized that I was asking for trouble...
...and I drag it back....right through my thumb, no big deal, I'll be fine. Seriously good tips though. :)
Haha, yeah, "Watch this kids!"
First you should get a table to work more comfortable
You don't need that heat. All you do is bend in different directions a little bit.
You're right as long as you cut the crimp ring, but if you have to do a lot of fittings, like I was, then heat does speed it up and it is very easy.
I will not buy a dremel tool to remove the stainless pex crimp!
Cant hear one word !!
Hm, not sure why. It is loud enough on my phone and computer.