Geting pipe onto seacock

[glynnffc]

I am having awful trouble getting my large bore re-inforced pipe onto the large Blakes seacock.

Any tips.

I have tried putting the pipe in hot water , but still couldn't get it all the way down.
I have smothered each part in washing up liquid, and still only got it half way.
Am I a wimp or missing a trick.

 

[VicS]

Boiling water rather than just hot (But be careful, have bowl of cold water handy to plunge yourself in) Or a hot air gun.

Grease might be more effective than WUP liquid

Heat the seacock so that it does not instantly cool the pipe.

Heat and pre expand the pipe with a tapered piece of "large broom handle"

 

[Norman_E]

I think pretty well everybody finds it difficult. That hose is always a very tight fit, because it needs to be. Hot water and washing up liquid is the way to go, and I'm afraid you just have to keep trying. I bet its in a pretty confined and awkward place so your hands and arms get tired. If it won't go today, leave it on overnight as far as it will go, as that will help stretch the bit that is on, then have another go tomorrow. Heat the seacock as well as the pipe with hot water, otherwise the cold bronze quickly takes the heat out of the pipe.

 

[pyrojames]

If it is a steel wire reinforced pipe you will need to twist it so that the wire coil opens rather than closes. A bit like screwing a nut onto a thread. If it is just a webbing reinforced one, you do everything you've done plus some more gusto!

 

[glynnffc]

Thanks then guys.
It looks like it's extra Weetabix for breakfast and back to it.

 

[Hermit]

KY Jelly is good - if you happen to have some lying around...
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[capnsensible]

Hot air gun. Doddle. I write from much experience.

 

[Pasarell]

I struggled for days with hot water and WU liquid. Then I got the hot air gun out and did the job in 10 minutes

 

[JayBee]

Yes I agree - a hot air gun makes the seemingly impossible job with hot water, washing up liquid and all, really easy.

 

[glynnffc]

Thanks to all of you who replied and gave me hope and the confidence to blast away with an hot air gun.

Job done.

Now I just have to get all those miles of pipe through the diverter and to black tank, outlet and the rest.

A bucket seems so easy.

 

[flyingscampi]

I used a heat gun to heat the end of the pipe and then pushed in the cone from the seacock to stretch the mouth of the pipe before fitting it.

This avoided kinks which I got trying to just fit a heated pipe.