Rounded off drain plug

[Wagtail]

I do not think there has been a consensus that it is going to be a pipe wrench. Kando should wait until everyone in TBN agrees to a plan.... oh wait... are they calling it a playbook these days?
:confused3:

Thank you!

It's the 21st Century and pipe wrenches (quality or not... although probably inherited from a deceased [though much loved] maternal/paternal senior/grand/great-grand relative) are the stuff of Luddites.

I like the Knipex solution... indeed, I've priced one at A$85 at TotalTools in Launeston and am thinking of swinging by there a week Monday to have a wee boo.

 

[4570Man]

Thank you!

It's the 21st Century and pipe wrenches (quality or not... although probably inherited from a deceased [though much loved] maternal/paternal senior/grand/great-grand relative) are the stuff of Luddites.

I like the Knipex solution... indeed, I've priced one at A$85 at TotalTools in Launeston and am thinking of swinging by there a week Monday to have a wee boo.

Pipe wrenches still have no replacement and I don’t know what you have against them.

 

[Citydude]

Thank you!

It's the 21st Century and pipe wrenches (quality or not... although probably inherited from a deceased [though much loved] maternal/paternal senior/grand/great-grand relative) are the stuff of Luddites.

I like the Knipex solution... indeed, I've priced one at A$85 at TotalTools in Launeston and am thinking of swinging by there a week Monday to have a wee boo.

While your there, buy yourself a pipe wrench.

 

[ruffdog]

At this point, I think it might call for Dr. Phil.

Or, Dr OZ.................DR Frankenstein?

 

[Kando]

Or, Dr OZ.................DR Frankenstein?

It's Fronkensteen!

 

[fried1765]

. BYOPR. (Bring your own pipe wrench.)

LOVE IT !!!

 

[airbiscuit]

Didn't somebody mention a Monkey Wrench and footballs? :monkey::football::monkey::football::monkey::football::monkey::football:

(Isn't a Monkey Wrench just a pipe wrench without dentures?)

 

[Big Barn]

. BYOPR. (Bring your own pipe wrench.)

Edit.

My apologies for not being more INCLUSIVE

SB: BYOTOC. (Bring......Tool of Choice)

 

[bcp]

Didn't somebody mention a Monkey Wrench and footballs? :monkey::football::monkey::football::monkey::football::monkey::football:

(Isn't a Monkey Wrench just a pipe wrench without dentures?)

Monkey wrench doesn't have a pivoting moving jaw that tightens when force is applied, like a pipe wrench does.

Bruce

 

[4570Man]

Here’s how hard a pipe wrench will bite. This same pipe wrench which is by no ones standard a quality tool and has buggered up teeth easily holds my weight turning against a floor jack axel.

 

[airbiscuit]

You do understand the concept of tongue-in-cheek humour, don't you?

Same as my response to Big Barn. As was Big Barn's comment that I responded to.

Lighten up.

bcp - I thought the wrench with dentures part gave suggested "tongue in cheek"

 

[4570Man]

I repeated the same test with my knipex and they also passed. Then I decided to do it again with a pair of vice grips which while I was standing straight down they also held. Then I got sideways a little and knocked them off. I’m pretty sure this less than perfect twisting force and instead pulling the wrench down is probably the OPs problem.

 

[4570Man]

Since I’m still board how should we over tighten and strip this pipe plug? My Klein adjustable wrench seems to me holding like a champ.

 

[Xfaxman]

Hereç—´ how hard a pipe wrench will bite. This same pipe wrench which is by no ones standard a quality tool and has buggered up teeth -------------
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And you adjusted it correctly, note the gap where I put the arrows:

I repeated the same test with my knipex and they also passed.
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Here is a side view from their Website showing the same thing:

 

[4570Man]

And you adjusted it correctly, note the gap where I put the arrows:

View attachment 582223


Here is a side view from their Website showing the same thing:

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I think the pipe wrench jaws had actually bottomed against the head after crushing the pipe which is not optimal. They should be like this. Notice the gap which leaves room to grip tighter.

 

[4570Man]

And it must not be my day to strip a plug. I grabbed what I thought would be a sure fire way so strip it which was a 12 point socket on a 24” breaker bar. It drove the plug all the way through the taper at which point it wasn’t getting tighter and then backed it out.

 

[Xfaxman]

Since I知 still board how should we over tighten and strip this pipe plug? My Klein adjustable wrench seems to me holding like a champ.

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First thing would be to turn it over to the recommended position for tightening:

Less likley to break the adjustable jaw.


Then use a 3' long cheater pipe on it.

 

[Big Barn]

Here is my CHANNELLOCK 410 I purchased over 30 years ago which now has less than perfect teeth. (( the plier wrench, not me)




It didn’t slip with my full weight on it.

 

[Jstpssng]

We'd better back off with the innocuous comments, if we want the 1000th post to be Kando telling us that he got the plug out.

 

[dragoneggs]

Edit.

My apologies for not being more INCLUSIVE

SB: BYOTOC. (Bring......Tool of Choice)

let's make this a party... and BYOBOC!