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Cut and remove valve using tubing cutter

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Best Way To Remove A Flowtite Valve Ever!

What happens here

Use a tubing cutter to remove Flowtite valve from Type A PEX. It needs to fit 1 1/8" pipe.

Goal: Remove valve

Tools and materials

  • Tubing cutter Rigid — Cutting pipe

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okay so instead of cutting this like i usually do the new method i just learned from nas online is to use a tubing cutter i would have never thought man you just need a tubing cutter that goes up to inch and an eighth so what we want to take off of this valve is actually going to be the same place that we cut it around right right around here we're just going to get as close as we can to this edge and we're going to clip that and that right there should make all the rest of this pop out and it'll make for an easy way to get it off so right here you can kind of see where this o-ring is you want to be on that o-ring or maybe just a little bit after it but you want to be able to pop this piece out as close to the front as you can get it that's where you want to take this out okay and it just starts popping popping and cracking and bam that piece is off that's out and now look at this you can slide this back and bam we're right where we were at with my cutting method except so much faster and neater i don't have to worry about sawing my hand off look at that it's cutting it just taking a sweet sweet time there get that off of there get that hooked up and so much nicer boom that's out that's off and our pipe is actually in really good shape so at this point you'll be able to

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