The Medway Handyman wrote:
Bob Mannix wrote:
"A.Lee" wrote in message
...
Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when
the drugs began to take hold. I remember Geo
saying something like:

If your cylinder is also indirectly heated from a CH boiler then
the coil
/may/ obstruct a longer immersion heater.
They're designed not too - although you wouldn't believe that from
the struggle you sometimes have to get the bloody thing in past the
coil.
It sounds like you have done one before, so how did you get the old
one out?
I tried to get my mates out, but it wouldnt budge.
Alan.
Black art and luck. Don't drain the system until it starts to budge -
modern tanks have very little strength when full and none at all when
empty. Local heating, Plus-Gas, sacrifice, prayer, incantations and
the preparedness to buy a new tank are essential.

The ring type flat spanners are all but useless. The box spanner type is
much better.

The ring type do have the advantage that you can wallop them easier, and
you are reasonably aligned with the screw thread (so less bending moment
on the tank). However once it is free and turning the box spanners are
indeed better.

--
Cheers,

John.

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