WHAT is this TOOL ???

[Senior Tech]

Spud wrench...or for those times when the ex-lax or enema won't work...this baby'll clean the ole pipes...

[gasnowman]

did someone mention "nipples".I always enjoy a assortment box of nipples.Can you get my nipps out.

[R12rules]

Because it's a "tool" ... I want one. Because it's old ... I would use the excuse that it is a collectable item.

But because it's used for "plumbing" ... I would hope I would never have to use one.

[otto]

It's the tool you use to try and remove the radiator spud to replace a steam valve. Then when the little walls shear off you throw the tool across the room, curse the steam gods and get out a sawzall blade. Now you have to make 3-4 cuts in the brass spud and not cut the male threads on the radiator body. Then you use a 1/2 round coping chisel to extract the cut pieces and collapse the nipple....

Then again I may have never seen one of those. Maybe it was just a bad dream!!!!

[condenseddave]

Originally posted by Dowadudda
It is sir,

a wrench used in the old days, to swedge rectangle copper refrigeration pipe. It came very square in the olden days.

I heard it was octagonal, like the old rifle barrels.

You been in the wacky tabackky again?

[Dowadudda]

Originally posted by condenseddave

Originally posted by Dowadudda
It is sir,

a wrench used in the old days, to swedge rectangle copper refrigeration pipe. It came very square in the olden days.

I heard it was octagonal, like the old rifle barrels.

You been in the wacky tabackky again?

For once, Once,

I make an attempt to be a little funny, and not long winded, and I get stepped on for it. What the hell?

As far as that spud wrench thing or whatever it is, I am with R12 on that. I think plumbing is a great trade, and I got a good close freind in it, but if I find myself using one of those wrenches, I'll know then and there, it's time for me to relook at my life.

[rich pickering]

Otto, you're right, it was a bad dream. Brass is easy to get out.Rusted steel is the nightmare.My old boss called it a cape chisel.I now have 2 of them.

[Diceman]

I have one of em too, finding it is another story.

[Green Mountain]

Well now I feel like a dummy. Apparently I am the only heating guy north of the Mason-Dixon line that never seen one of these: spud wrenches-radiator wrenches. This is the male part of the union that connects the radiator valve to the union. I ripped a lot of radiators out and threw them in the dump. Since this was my house I had to replace the valve or the War Department would want me to redo the whole room.

So your Saturday is complete now that you know what this thing is.

[otto]

it makes a good doorstop too!

[Chad711]

If it makes you feel any better my guess was a swedge tool