Thanks for all the sugestions. I think I will go with the least order of
severity. First the penetrating oil. I had used W-40 but the penatrating
oil is made for doing just this. If I can find the old plug I could
experement with the bang out the screw plug idea. At work we use human
performance tools to cut down on human error and one of them is "how bad can
it get". Well under the house if the bang out the plug dosn't work than it
is hard to go back. Arches sugestion would be the last but it would cure it
for all times. Thanks for all the help, great group even for non turning
subjects.

Thanks again, Bruce
"Bruce Ferguson" wrote in message
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I apoloigize ahead of time for this off topic post but I figured with all
the people out there some one may have the answer.

My house was buildt in the 50's and has the iron sewer pipes under the
house. The cleanouts look like a two piece afair. The first is a tapered
piece that is held in with picking or lead and the screw out piece is in
the middle. Of course they are all frozen and stuck. Question, do you
think heat would help free them??? If so would you heat the center piece
or the piece it screws into??? I don't know if they make those pieces any
more to dig out the packing and replace them. Most everything is plastic.
I guess you can figure out why I need to get to the clean out. If some
one knows a web site I would be happy to go there.
Sorry again for the off topic post.

Bruce