Big cheap wrench 24" is heavy AF and you might still need a mallet because its so hard to hold the tank sometimes.
Can't get the valves off my steel tanks
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Still Kicking
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If all else fails, 24" wrench and 24"+ cheater bar ..... but brass is on the softer end of the spectrum so it's possible to wreck the valve this way.
Do not hit the valves directly with the mallet - it's easy to bend the valve stem and then you have to overhaul the valve.
If all pressure is definitely out of the tank, then a wrench with greater torque is really your only option.
Makeshift tank vise .... ratchet strap and a stout tree.
Do not hit the valves directly with the mallet - it's easy to bend the valve stem and then you have to overhaul the valve.
If all pressure is definitely out of the tank, then a wrench with greater torque is really your only option.
Makeshift tank vise .... ratchet strap and a stout tree.
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Never wrenches, I stopped listening to the shop guy that was taught by the previous shop guy, decades ago
If it's stuck take off the knob and give the valve a few taps with a plastic mallet and if it needs more whack it
With soft knobs, I tap the knob or whack it, and it is very rare that I break a spindle, and if I do it was its time
If it's stuck take off the knob and give the valve a few taps with a plastic mallet and if it needs more whack it
With soft knobs, I tap the knob or whack it, and it is very rare that I break a spindle, and if I do it was its time
Alekseolsen
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Hmm, why not use the valve removal tool and a mallett?
Screws right into the DIN-threads
Screws right into the DIN-threads
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Great if you have one....
Now we will have someone thread in an 8inch pipe nipple and screw everything up.
Now we will have someone thread in an 8inch pipe nipple and screw everything up.
OMyMyOHellYes
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Thin-walled brass in that area is not that strong. If the valve is as tight as he says, all that application of that much force on that tool may likely either rip the valve in half (or likely deform the threaded DIN fitting) or bend the tool, depending on the alloy it's made from.
I carry one of those tools with me so if the tank turkeys tighten up the hand-tightened valve on my pony I can hopefully get it offbefore packing it for the flight home. But it is strictly for valves tightened properly, not over-torqued or frozen in place.
The only reason I carry that is because it's easier to pack than a big crescent wrench.
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if the technician doesn't have the correct wrench to remove a valve then I'm not sure he's a really proper technician.... Valves get stuck all the time, and the vast majority of valves have a flat spot to put a wrench because there are actual torque specs to use with a crows foot wrench to install them. Lubricant should also not be used when installing valves per the manufacturers installation manuals. Most technicians will have the appropriate sized wrench and just give it a love tap with a dead blow hammer and they come right off
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