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Default 1930s cast iron downpipe fixings - what are they?
On 20/09/17 12:57, Andy Burns wrote:
Brian Gaff wrote:

Are you sure you cannot get a tool to get it out through the top?

Fill the downpipe with sodium hydroxide, that ought to eat the wood, but
not the iron :-)

Indeed, if you can pressurise to about 3 bar and heat it up to several
hundred degrees.... it should turn to paper pulp...:-)



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