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This is an outside water spicket by our house. As you can see the top thread have rusted from the inside out and broken off so now it leaks like a geyser. If I could just get that 18 inch pipe unscrewed from the elbow you barely can see from where I dug it out I could fix it easy. But it's rusted also and I'm going to break the pipe twisting it so hard I can tell. Any ideas are great appreciated as we have no water until it's fixed because I have to keep it off until I fix this. Thanks!!!


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apply a little heat to the joint to loosen the rust and use 2 pipe wrenches working opposite of each other. if you tighten it just a little before you loosen it that will usually break the seal.
 
ram":wgo0fq8y said:
apply a little heat to the joint to loosen the rust and use 2 pipe wrenches working opposite of each other. if you tighten it just a little before you loosen it that will usually break the seal.
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Slide a long piece of pipe over the pipe wrench to give you more leverage. You either crack it loose or crush the pipe.

For as corroded as that thing looks, I think you are going to be replacing the whole she-bang.
 
Lots of PB Blaster... I like it much better than WD-40. It's helped me get rusted bolts off rusted gate hinges with minimal effort.

What are you going to put in the place of that pipe once you remove it?
 
Break it off, get a square piece of metal the size of the pipe, drive it in, unscrew the old piece. Replace with your fitting of choice. gs
 
In the short term I'd go get a plastic dresser coupling (compression fitting) to place on the riser and go from there. It would give me time to figure out how much needs to be redone.
 
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fitz":3v083659 said:
In the short term I'd go get a plastic dresser coupling (compression fitting) to place on the riser and go from there. It would give me time to figure out how much needs to be redone.
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Do this short term. Do what Greg said when you have time. If to much breaks keep digging till you get to good stuff to work with. You can use compression fettingd there too.
 
Well I had to cut it. I dug it out more and after it made it's 90 degree turn cut about 5 inches behind that and the pipe is not rusted and good. Can I put a compression fitting over that temporarily? I'm not sure how that works??
 
jerry27150":djhunxwh said:
get a pipe threader & re thread it & be done with it, takes no time
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That's what my B-I-L said to do but it's 8:30 pm here and don't think I can buy one anywhere. Are they expensive?
 
Just a matter of time. Dig it all out and replace it. You're going to hot patch it and have an underground bust later. Maybe trash your foundation if you don't find it soon enough. Fix it. You won't regret it.
 
To late for this one.... I've mended many rusted out galvanized leaks with a piece of heater hose and two screw clamps.
 

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