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Steve Barker wrote:
Well, I can't imagine there being a use for the L/R system in new
construction. It would be only in a repair. And if that is the case, you'd
just take it apart at the "accessible" union, and take apart backwards to
the problem area.

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Steve Barker

They probably do find their widest use in repairs, whatever the case,
there is sufficient demand for them that the manufacturers continue
to produce them and supply them at resonable prices.

To the OP, if you decide to use one of these make sure that all the
other threaded fittings on both sieds are tight beforehand, and use a
long pipe wrench on the LH thread side to keep from loosening any
exisiting joints. As you tighten the repair fitting it will want
to loosen any RH threaded joints connected in line with the LH thread
repair fitting.


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Often wrong, never in doubt.

Larry Wasserman - Baltimore Maryland - lwasserm(a)sdf.lonestar.org