Jud McCranie wrote:
On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:03:54 -0400, Frank
wrote:

I would tend to hire a plumber. If it's something like CPVC pipe you
could break it.

Yes, it is some sort of PVC pipe. If I break that trying to get the
thing off, there would be no way I can fix it, so I'd have to have the
whole house w/o water until I could get a plumber. So I don't want to
risk breaking it.

Repair with new pipe and glue would probably be simpler than sweating
copper. Plumbing is not rocket science but I often say that the
difference between me and a plumber is that the plumber has a truck full
of parts while I'll be running back and forth to the store.

Neighbor's son told me he broke a section of his fathers CPVC pipe
crawling under sink hanging onto pipe. Said it was quite brittle.