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Huge wrote:
I'm just removing the one in our main bathroom (well, OK, I'm getting
my breath back & cooling down after carrying 1/3 of it downstairs).

If the stairs are wide enough, remove the taps and invert the bath, tie a
rope to it and slide it down. The reverse got mine upstairs. ;-) Then some
cut up broom handles to roll it the rest of the way.

I thought cast iron was fragile? A 2lb club hammer is having no effect
and I'm having to cut through the edges with an angle grinder.

Think you'd need a sledge hammer.

BTW, how do you tell the difference between stone cutting & metal
cutting discs once the labels have come off?

Looking at new ones, I can't.

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*They call it PMS because Mad Cow Disease was already taken.

Dave Plowman London SW 12
RIP Acorn

"Huge" wrote in message
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I'm just removing the one in our main bathroom (well, OK, I'm getting
my breath back & cooling down after carrying 1/3 of it downstairs).

I thought cast iron was fragile? A 2lb club hammer is having no effect
and I'm having to cut through the edges with an angle grinder.

I can assure you that a 7lb sledge hammer is no more effective. Mind you,
I'd bet that if you were trying to move one in, it would shatter if you
lowered it gently onto a thick foam mattress.

Colin Bignell

"Huge" wrote in message
I thought cast iron was fragile? A 2lb club hammer is having no
effect and I'm having to cut through the edges with an angle grinder.

There must be a vintage when they were still popular but the thickness had
been reduced to save money, maybe those break with a few well aimed blows.
1904 examples seem bloody thick. Felt like a demented Quasimodo, all I
needed to do was hit it just a bit harder. I regained focus after the
blood-head-rush had subsided.

A 4lb club made no difference to mine, it had to be broken, there was no way
to get it round the corner otherwise. Used the angle grinder to make cuts in
the edges then when the blade started wearing away rather quickly, changed
to a dotted line.

BTW, how do you tell the difference between stone cutting & metal
cutting discs once the labels have come off?
Permanent marker near the centre. Alt: Two angle grinders? Or just stick to
diamond disks for stone.

--
Toby.

'One day son, all this will be finished'

nightjar
I thought cast iron was fragile? A 2lb club hammer is having no effect
and I'm having to cut through the edges with an angle grinder.


I can assure you that a 7lb sledge hammer is no more effective. Mind you,
I'd bet that if you were trying to move one in, it would shatter if you
lowered it gently onto a thick foam mattress.

Anyone tried a pickaxe?


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Chris
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Chris Hodges wrote:

nightjar

I thought cast iron was fragile? A 2lb club hammer is having no effect
and I'm having to cut through the edges with an angle grinder.



I can assure you that a 7lb sledge hammer is no more effective. Mind you,
I'd bet that if you were trying to move one in, it would shatter if you
lowered it gently onto a thick foam mattress.


Anyone tried a pickaxe?



I used a sledge and every ounce of muscle power I possess. It broke.

Once started its easier to finish.

nightjar

"Huge" wrote in message
...

I'm just removing the one in our main bathroom (well, OK, I'm getting
my breath back & cooling down after carrying 1/3 of it downstairs).

I thought cast iron was fragile? A 2lb club hammer is having no effect
and I'm having to cut through the edges with an angle grinder.


I can assure you that a 7lb sledge hammer is no more effective.


The bath won't crack with gentle taps.

You need to use those atroophied things called muscles.

Paint a picture of IMM and Toby Blair on it and THEN use a sledge.

Mind you,
I'd bet that if you were trying to move one in, it would shatter if you
lowered it gently onto a thick foam mattress.

Colin Bignell

"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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nightjar

"Huge" wrote in message
...

I'm just removing the one in our main bathroom (well, OK, I'm getting
my breath back & cooling down after carrying 1/3 of it downstairs).

I thought cast iron was fragile? A 2lb club hammer is having no effect
and I'm having to cut through the edges with an angle grinder.


I can assure you that a 7lb sledge hammer is no more effective.


The bath won't crack with gentle taps.

You need to use those atroophied things called muscles.

I have the sledge from blacksmithing. However, if I had taken as big a swing
in the bathroom as I did in the smithy, I would have enlarged the bathroom
at the same time.

Colin Bignell

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 15:43:14 -0000, "nightjar"
wrote:


"Huge" wrote in message
...
I'm just removing the one in our main bathroom (well, OK, I'm getting
my breath back & cooling down after carrying 1/3 of it downstairs).

I thought cast iron was fragile? A 2lb club hammer is having no effect
and I'm having to cut through the edges with an angle grinder.

I can assure you that a 7lb sledge hammer is no more effective.

Dunno how heavy my sledge hammer is but it's done for a couple of cast
iron baths now (and one shower pump that got in the way underneath
:-()

Ear defenders and safety specs a must - and that's from one of the
"bit of noise|muck in the eyes|electricity|radiation|nerve gas|WMD
never hurt anyone" school :-)

Dave Plowman wrote:
Huge wrote:

BTW, how do you tell the difference between stone cutting & metal
cutting discs once the labels have come off?

The stone ones disappear rapidly on metal :-)

Dont ask me how I know ...

P.