On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 20:18:37 -0500, "TomR" wrote:



I forget which YouTube video I also saw today that talked about what I
mentioned earlier about the snap cutter -- that it can break or crush the
pipe instead of cutting it off cleanly, especially for old pipe. And that
person suggested using an angle grinder instead of a snap cutting tool for
that type of pipe.


Same vid, but at the end he seems to say go for the snap cutter.
I don't know what "old" is. The ones I helped with were maybe 60
years old. Toilet stacks. Apartment building reno in Chicago.
Only saw it done twice, and I was the helper.
As in "Hang onto this stack and don't let it move after I snap it."
More interesting was watching him stuff oakum into the new joints and
melt lead into it. Nice looking joints. Pretty much all I remember
about those stacks.