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Doctor Evil wrote:
It's rather down to luck. Sometimes they're well and truly stuck. It's
usual to slacken them with the tank still full of water which holds it
steady. But of course if the cylinder splits, you've got a problem. ;-)

Useless advice.

But near enough the same as all the other *practical* people on here have
given? But it's nice to see you've taken my advice and started to deal
with simple things.

If it doesn't move, then use a blowlamps and heat the
copper around the old immersion. This expands the metal and the brass
immersion slips out.

You'd have to expand it a long way before the immersion would 'slip' out.

6/10.

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