==== Ok, I'll 'fess up. This was in the days BLDD. If I knew then about
the efficacy of LDD on anything, I would certainly have used it as the
lubricant for the cutting chain. Check out:
http://www.reedmfgco.com/index.html?...l_pipe_cutters
As to the couplers, try looking at: http://www.fernco.com/coupling.asp LDD
can be very effective in lubricating the pipe for slipping on the rubber
coupler. Arch led me astray, I had forgotten that these were not quite as
flexible as he stated. All of that can be laid out before the installation.
Hope this helps,

Leif

I would imagine that a tool rental agency would have them to rent. That's
where I got mine.
"Bruce Ferguson" wrote in message
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Racheting cutter. Is that like a cutter for copper pipe? It just goes
round and round ant the pipe is cut off?? I was thinking hack saw or
saber saw with a metal cutting blade. I have seen saber saws at Harbor
Freight and thought if they lasted long enough it would work.
Leif I cant resist this.....How long did you soak that pipe in LLD to make
it soft enough to cut??

Bruce
"Leif Thorvaldson" wrote in message
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"Arch" wrote in message
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Bruce, if you can't unscrew the plug, instead of messing about with old
lead, oakum and frozen threads it might be easier to just hacksaw
(actually I urged mine with a sledge) the clean out off and replace it
with a PVC fitting using adjustable vinyl compression couplings.

Real plumbers are laughing to keep from crying.


Turn to Safety, Arch
Fortiter

Arch! You must have been a chirurgen. Typical answer: cut, cut, cut!
*G* Actually your suggestion was exactly what I did under my house in San
Bernardino, many years ago. I rented a ratching cutter (they're made for
just such "operations" and resected the old iron pipe and installed new
plastic cleanout and junctions for the new grey water connections using
expandable rubber connectors with large hose clamps to remate the with
the resectioned ends of the iron pipe. Worked like a charm, with not too
much labor under the house, although I could have used a pretty nurse to
mop my fevered brow! *G*

Leif