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I need to replace a toilet flange and about a foot vertical of pipe
that is below a concrete floor. There is about 1/4 inch clearance between the concrete and where the flange fastens to the pipe. Is there any kind of tool that is made for doing this. I am considering removing the table from my drill press, fastening a cutoff disk to one end of a long rod and chucking the other end in the drill press to make a saw that will reach down in the hole. Im pretty sur ethis will work but I didnt want to have to disassemble my drill press to do it especially if there is a $10 tool or something made for this purpose. Jimmie |
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On Feb 6, 2:22*pm, JIMMIE wrote:
I need to replace a toilet flange and about a foot vertical of pipe that is below a concrete floor. There is about 1/4 inch clearance between the concrete and where the flange fastens to the pipe. Is there any kind of tool that is made for doing this. I am considering removing the table from my drill press, fastening a cutoff disk to one end of a long rod and chucking the other end in the drill press to make a saw that will reach down in the hole. Im pretty sur ethis will work but I didnt want to have to disassemble my drill press to do it especially if there is a $10 tool or something made for this purpose. Jimmie Can you use a large pwerful hand drill? |
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JIMMIE wrote:
I need to replace a toilet flange and about a foot vertical of pipe that is below a concrete floor. There is about 1/4 inch clearance between the concrete and where the flange fastens to the pipe. Is there any kind of tool that is made for doing this. I am considering removing the table from my drill press, fastening a cutoff disk to one end of a long rod and chucking the other end in the drill press to make a saw that will reach down in the hole. Im pretty sur ethis will work but I didnt want to have to disassemble my drill press to do it especially if there is a $10 tool or something made for this purpose. Jimmie Try a length of small diameter cable with a loop in each end for handles. I had one for cutting conduit. Example he http://tinyurl.com/yz84mmu |
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On Feb 6, 3:42*pm, "hr(bob) "
wrote: On Feb 6, 2:22*pm, JIMMIE wrote: I need to replace a toilet flange and about a foot vertical of pipe that is below a concrete floor. There is about 1/4 inch clearance between the concrete and where the flange fastens to the pipe. Is there any kind of tool that is made for doing this. I am considering removing the table from my drill press, fastening a cutoff disk to one end of a long rod and chucking the other end in the drill press to make a saw that will reach down in the hole. Im pretty sur ethis will work but I didnt want to have to disassemble my drill press to do it especially if there is a $10 tool or something made for this purpose. Jimmie Can you use a large pwerful hand drill? I dont know if I would get a good cut for putting the new coupling on. I thought about that but I could kind of see that I might mess it up. Jimmie |
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On Feb 6, 3:46*pm, Dean Hoffman wrote:
JIMMIE wrote: I need to replace a toilet flange and about a foot vertical of pipe that is below a concrete floor. There is about 1/4 inch clearance between the concrete and where the flange fastens to the pipe. Is there any kind of tool that is made for doing this. I am considering removing the table from my drill press, fastening a cutoff disk to one end of a long rod and chucking the other end in the drill press to make a saw that will reach down in the hole. Im pretty sur ethis will work but I didnt want to have to disassemble my drill press to do it especially if there is a $10 tool or something made for this purpose. Jimmie * * * Try a length of small diameter cable with a loop in each end for handles. *I had one for cutting conduit. *Example he * *http://tinyurl.com/yz84mmu Thanks but the pipe has to be cut from the inside. Jimmie |
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JIMMIE wrote:
On Feb 6, 3:46 pm, Dean Hoffman wrote: JIMMIE wrote: I need to replace a toilet flange and about a foot vertical of pipe that is below a concrete floor. There is about 1/4 inch clearance between the concrete and where the flange fastens to the pipe. Is there any kind of tool that is made for doing this. I am considering removing the table from my drill press, fastening a cutoff disk to one end of a long rod and chucking the other end in the drill press to make a saw that will reach down in the hole. Im pretty sur ethis will work but I didnt want to have to disassemble my drill press to do it especially if there is a $10 tool or something made for this purpose. Jimmie Try a length of small diameter cable with a loop in each end for handles. I had one for cutting conduit. Example he http://tinyurl.com/yz84mmu Thanks but the pipe has to be cut from the inside. Jimmie Search for internal or inside pipe cutter. Some he http://tinyurl.com/yjm5nkf |
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Dean Hoffman wrote:
JIMMIE wrote: On Feb 6, 3:46 pm, Dean Hoffman wrote: JIMMIE wrote: I need to replace a toilet flange and about a foot vertical of pipe that is below a concrete floor. There is about 1/4 inch clearance between the concrete and where the flange fastens to the pipe. Is there any kind of tool that is made for doing this. I am considering removing the table from my drill press, fastening a cutoff disk to one end of a long rod and chucking the other end in the drill press to make a saw that will reach down in the hole. Im pretty sur ethis will work but I didnt want to have to disassemble my drill press to do it especially if there is a $10 tool or something made for this purpose. Jimmie Try a length of small diameter cable with a loop in each end for handles. I had one for cutting conduit. Example he http://tinyurl.com/yz84mmu Thanks but the pipe has to be cut from the inside. Jimmie Search for internal or inside pipe cutter. Some he http://tinyurl.com/yjm5nkf Maybe check a rental shop for these. |
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On Feb 6, 3:22*pm, JIMMIE wrote:
I need to replace a toilet flange and about a foot vertical of pipe that is below a concrete floor. There is about 1/4 inch clearance between the concrete and where the flange fastens to the pipe. Is there any kind of tool that is made for doing this. I am considering removing the table from my drill press, fastening a cutoff disk to one end of a long rod and chucking the other end in the drill press to make a saw that will reach down in the hole. Im pretty sur ethis will work but I didnt want to have to disassemble my drill press to do it especially if there is a $10 tool or something made for this purpose. Jimmie This sounds like a good application for a Dremel. Just curious why do you need to remove a foot of pipe? Is the flange no good? |
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On Feb 6, 5:26*pm, Mikepier wrote:
On Feb 6, 3:22*pm, JIMMIE wrote: I need to replace a toilet flange and about a foot vertical of pipe that is below a concrete floor. There is about 1/4 inch clearance between the concrete and where the flange fastens to the pipe. Is there any kind of tool that is made for doing this. I am considering removing the table from my drill press, fastening a cutoff disk to one end of a long rod and chucking the other end in the drill press to make a saw that will reach down in the hole. Im pretty sur ethis will work but I didnt want to have to disassemble my drill press to do it especially if there is a $10 tool or something made for this purpose. Jimmie This sounds like a good application for a Dremel. Just curious why do you need to remove a foot of pipe? Is the flange no good? Flange is bad and there are a couple of splices below it that have to be removed. It looks like repairs have been attempted on it before. Not enough room for a dremel tool and my hand unless I want to cut it off an inch or so at a time. I may go out to Northern tool and look at some of their cheap drill presses though instead of tearing mine apart. Jimmie |
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On 2010-02-06, JIMMIE wrote:
I need to replace a toilet flange and about a foot vertical of pipe that is below a concrete floor. There is about 1/4 inch clearance between the concrete and where the flange fastens to the pipe. Is there any kind of tool that is made for doing this. If the pipe is plastic pipe, you could use a tool called a "fitting saver", even though you don't have a fitting in this case. One brand of them is the Pasco Ram Bit. Basically it is a sharp disc cutter with a positioning disc in front of it, you chuck it into a hand drill. The positioning disc diameter matches the inside diameter of the pipe and guides the tool; the cutting disc diameter matches the outside diameter of the pipe. That way you can ream out the hub of a fitting and reuse the fitting (as long as you don't go too far!). In your case, you can just use it to grind away the pipe as far as you need to, and then add a coupling. Or you could go all the way back to the hub of the closet elbow. If you are using it on ABS pipe, be careful as gets quite hot, you have to go slow. Cheers, Wayne |
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"Wayne Whitney" wrote in message ... On 2010-02-06, JIMMIE wrote: I need to replace a toilet flange and about a foot vertical of pipe that is below a concrete floor. There is about 1/4 inch clearance between the concrete and where the flange fastens to the pipe. Is there any kind of tool that is made for doing this. If the pipe is plastic pipe, you could use a tool called a "fitting saver", even though you don't have a fitting in this case. One brand of them is the Pasco Ram Bit. Basically it is a sharp disc cutter with a positioning disc in front of it, you chuck it into a hand drill. The positioning disc diameter matches the inside diameter of the pipe and guides the tool; the cutting disc diameter matches the outside diameter of the pipe. That way you can ream out the hub of a fitting and reuse the fitting (as long as you don't go too far!). In your case, you can just use it to grind away the pipe as far as you need to, and then add a coupling. Or you could go all the way back to the hub of the closet elbow. If you are using it on ABS pipe, be careful as gets quite hot, you have to go slow. Cheers, Wayne Guys, I am fairly sure JIMMIE is a troll. If he would care to tell me how he plans to glue in the repair for the section he removes I might change that opinion. Have you thought about that? Colbyt |
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Colbyt wrote:
Guys, I am fairly sure JIMMIE is a troll. If he would care to tell me how he plans to glue in the repair for the section he removes I might change that opinion. Have you thought about that? Colbyt Internal coupling? |
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Some years ago, I got a call from some friends. The man of the house had fallen in the bathroom, and now the toilet wobbed, a lot. I got one of these. The old flange was cast iron, with lead around it. Lucky for all of us, a couple taps with the 24 ounce framing hammer broke the cast iron. The new flange tightened with allen wrench, and the toilet remounted reasonably well. Took some shims from the paint department to steady the toilet from rocking. -- Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org .. "JIMMIE" wrote in message ... On Feb 6, 5:26 pm, Mikepier wrote: On Feb 6, 3:22 pm, JIMMIE wrote: I need to replace a toilet flange and about a foot vertical of pipe that is below a concrete floor. There is about 1/4 inch clearance between the concrete and where the flange fastens to the pipe. Is there any kind of tool that is made for doing this. I am considering removing the table from my drill press, fastening a cutoff disk to one end of a long rod and chucking the other end in the drill press to make a saw that will reach down in the hole. Im pretty sur ethis will work but I didnt want to have to disassemble my drill press to do it especially if there is a $10 tool or something made for this purpose. Jimmie This sounds like a good application for a Dremel. Just curious why do you need to remove a foot of pipe? Is the flange no good? Flange is bad and there are a couple of splices below it that have to be removed. It looks like repairs have been attempted on it before. Not enough room for a dremel tool and my hand unless I want to cut it off an inch or so at a time. I may go out to Northern tool and look at some of their cheap drill presses though instead of tearing mine apart. Jimmie |
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Thanks but the pipe has to be cut from the inside. Jimmie WHY? break out some of the concrete, remove some soil, cut the pipe, repair pipe, put soil back in and repair concrete floor. Very small simple job. |
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On Feb 6, 8:18*pm, "Colbyt" wrote:
"Wayne Whitney" wrote in message ... On 2010-02-06, JIMMIE wrote: I need to replace a toilet flange and about a foot vertical of pipe that is below a concrete floor. There is about 1/4 inch clearance between the concrete and where the flange fastens to the pipe. Is there any kind of tool that is made for doing this. If the pipe is plastic pipe, you could use a tool called a "fitting saver", even though you don't have a fitting in this case. *One brand of them is the Pasco Ram Bit. Basically it is a sharp disc cutter with a positioning disc in front of it, you chuck it into a hand drill. *The positioning disc diameter matches the inside diameter of the pipe and guides the tool; the cutting disc diameter matches the outside diameter of the pipe. *That way you can ream out the hub of a fitting and reuse the fitting (as long as you don't go too far!). In your case, you can just use it to grind away the pipe as far as you need to, and then add a coupling. *Or you could go all the way back to the hub of the closet elbow. *If you are using it on ABS pipe, be careful as gets quite hot, you have to go slow. Cheers, Wayne Guys, I am fairly sure JIMMIE is a troll. If he would care to tell me how he plans to glue in the repair for the section he removes I might change that opinion. Have you thought about that? Colbyt- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I dont understand why you would think that part would be difficult. I will have to dig out a little dirt but that shouldnt be too hard to do once I can pull the pipe out which is what Im asking advice on. I actually think I have a viable solution to the problem using the drill press to turn a small cutoff blade in side the pipe. Once I get it down inside the pipe I can just slide the drill press around until it cuts out the pipe. Ik now it sounds like a Rube Goldberg way of doing it and I thought someone here would have a better idea. My only real problem of doing it is my drill press is a Big Heavy bench top drill press. Someone suggested using an electric drill instead of a drill press. I was afraid of trying it free hand like that but I may try half way up on the pipe to see how it works. Jimmie Jimmie |
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I needed to do this a few years ago .. .. I took a piece of 1/2"
threaded rod .. attached a small saw blade (actually it was a SPEEDY-CUT abrasive wheel) with a 1/2" bore using 2 nuts & washers .. chucked it up in a slow, 1/2" drill .. lowered it into the pipe ,, uct away & removed the bad section. Fortunately, for me, I was able to go to a toilet flange that fit INSIDE the pipe I just cut, so I didn't need to break out any concrete .. but that would not have been a big deal had it been necessary. On 2/6/2010 3:22 PM, JIMMIE wrote: I need to replace a toilet flange and about a foot vertical of pipe that is below a concrete floor. There is about 1/4 inch clearance between the concrete and where the flange fastens to the pipe. Is there any kind of tool that is made for doing this. I am considering removing the table from my drill press, fastening a cutoff disk to one end of a long rod and chucking the other end in the drill press to make a saw that will reach down in the hole. Im pretty sur ethis will work but I didnt want to have to disassemble my drill press to do it especially if there is a $10 tool or something made for this purpose. Jimmie |
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On Feb 6, 10:25*pm, "
wrote: Thanks but the pipe has to be cut from the inside. Jimmie WHY? *break out some of the concrete, remove some soil, cut the pipe, repair pipe, put soil back in and repair concrete floor. *Very small simple job. Ceramic tile, It was installed right up to the edge of the hole. Jimmie |
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On Feb 7, 12:44*am, "__ Bøb __" wrote:
I needed to do this a few years ago .. .. I took a piece of 1/2" threaded rod .. attached a small saw blade (actually it was a SPEEDY-CUT abrasive wheel) with a 1/2" bore using 2 nuts & washers .. chucked it up in a slow, 1/2" drill .. lowered it into the pipe ,, uct away & removed the bad section. * Fortunately, for me, I was able to go to a toilet flange that fit INSIDE the pipe I just cut, so I didn't need to break out any concrete .. but that would not have been a big deal had it been necessary. On 2/6/2010 3:22 PM, JIMMIE wrote: I need to replace a toilet flange and about a foot vertical of pipe that is below a concrete floor. There is about 1/4 inch clearance between the concrete and where the flange fastens to the pipe. Is there any kind of tool that is made for doing this. I am considering removing the table from my drill press, fastening a cutoff disk to one end of a long rod and chucking the other end in the drill press to make a saw that will reach down in the hole. Im pretty sur ethis will work but I didnt want to have to disassemble my drill press to do it especially if there is a $10 tool or something made for this purpose. Jimmie That was kind of my plan too except I envisioned using a drill press I could slide around on the floor to make sure the cut was neat and square. Jimmie |
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On Feb 6, 3:22*pm, JIMMIE wrote:
I need to replace a toilet flange and about a foot vertical of pipe that is below a concrete floor. There is about 1/4 inch clearance between the concrete and where the flange fastens to the pipe. Is there any kind of tool that is made for doing this. I am considering removing the table from my drill press, fastening a cutoff disk to one end of a long rod and chucking the other end in the drill press to make a saw that will reach down in the hole. Im pretty sur ethis will work but I didnt want to have to disassemble my drill press to do it especially if there is a $10 tool or something made for this purpose. Jimmie I got it done and used a rotozip to do it. I just had to take it out an inch at a time. Doing it this way wasnt as bad as I thought it would be. Trying to do it with a drill with a long shaft on it didnt work. It wanted ti whip around too bad. Jimmie |
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On Feb 7, 10:14*am, JIMMIE wrote:
On Feb 6, 3:22*pm, JIMMIE wrote: I need to replace a toilet flange and about a foot vertical of pipe that is below a concrete floor. There is about 1/4 inch clearance between the concrete and where the flange fastens to the pipe. Is there any kind of tool that is made for doing this. I am considering removing the table from my drill press, fastening a cutoff disk to one end of a long rod and chucking the other end in the drill press to make a saw that will reach down in the hole. Im pretty sur ethis will work but I didnt want to have to disassemble my drill press to do it especially if there is a $10 tool or something made for this purpose. Jimmie I got it done and used a rotozip *to do it. I just had to take it out an inch at a time. Doing it this way wasnt as bad as I thought it would be. Trying to do it with a drill with a long shaft on it didnt work. It wanted ti whip around too bad. Jimmie Good to hear of your progress. |
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On Feb 7, 7:16*pm, "hr(bob) "
wrote: On Feb 7, 10:14*am, JIMMIE wrote: On Feb 6, 3:22*pm, JIMMIE wrote: I need to replace a toilet flange and about a foot vertical of pipe that is below a concrete floor. There is about 1/4 inch clearance between the concrete and where the flange fastens to the pipe. Is there any kind of tool that is made for doing this. I am considering removing the table from my drill press, fastening a cutoff disk to one end of a long rod and chucking the other end in the drill press to make a saw that will reach down in the hole. Im pretty sur ethis will work but I didnt want to have to disassemble my drill press to do it especially if there is a $10 tool or something made for this purpose. Jimmie I got it done and used a rotozip *to do it. I just had to take it out an inch at a time. Doing it this way wasnt as bad as I thought it would be. Trying to do it with a drill with a long shaft on it didnt work. It wanted ti whip around too bad. Jimmie Good to hear of your progress.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I dont think the toilet flange was installed right. Shouldnt the flange be on the concrete instead of on top of the ceramic tile??? |
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On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 17:18:47 -0800 (PST), JIMMIE
wrote: I dont think the toilet flange was installed right. Shouldnt the flange be on the concrete instead of on top of the ceramic tile??? Oops |
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Dean Hoffman wrote in news:hkl5n3$hps$1
@speranza.aioe.org: Colbyt wrote: Guys, I am fairly sure JIMMIE is a troll. If he would care to tell me how he plans to glue in the repair for the section he removes I might change that opinion. Have you thought about that? Colbyt Internal coupling? Disclainer: I'm no plumber nor very experienced at it. Would the lip set the stage for clogging???? The pipe for a toilet is 3" sched 40? If this is true, I found some chart that says the internal diameter is 3.068. http://www.snapfour.com/pdf/Table_38-39.pdf Sched 40 wall thickness is about 1/4" (.216 according to the table) I take it. If you put an internal coupling (assume it's sched 40 like the pipe?) then the drain reduces a half inch at the coupling. Roughly, diameter is reduced 16% the internal flow area is reduced from 7.39 sq in to 5.18 sq in. or 30%. Maybe couplings for schd 40 are thinner wall than the pipe? |
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Red Green wrote:
Dean Hoffman wrote in news:hkl5n3$hps$1 @speranza.aioe.org: Colbyt wrote: Guys, I am fairly sure JIMMIE is a troll. If he would care to tell me how he plans to glue in the repair for the section he removes I might change that opinion. Have you thought about that? Colbyt Internal coupling? Disclainer: I'm no plumber nor very experienced at it. Would the lip set the stage for clogging???? The pipe for a toilet is 3" sched 40? If this is true, I found some chart that says the internal diameter is 3.068. http://www.snapfour.com/pdf/Table_38-39.pdf Sched 40 wall thickness is about 1/4" (.216 according to the table) I take it. If you put an internal coupling (assume it's sched 40 like the pipe?) then the drain reduces a half inch at the coupling. Roughly, diameter is reduced 16% the internal flow area is reduced from 7.39 sq in to 5.18 sq in. or 30%. Maybe couplings for schd 40 are thinner wall than the pipe? Beats me. I just know they exist. My plumbing experience is limited to the few things I've had to repair for myself. |
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