Demonstrating Ferrule Removal with Mini Hacksaw

just doesn't fit in the space and we are going to use an old angle stop replacement as our demonstration today so after removing your old angle stop I like to remove this ferrule some people don't remove them some people reuse them and they'll just take a brand new valve like this awesome one from doll and then just slap it right on there so I like to take a compression sleeve puller like this or a different version and actually remove this feral but I completely understand if you don't want to buy a specialty tool just to remove one feral you could try to take it off with a pair of channel locks okay you could just get right here and just kind of try to work that ferrule this way but now that doesn't work and that's where this comes in so if we actually had enough pipe we might get back here with the cutter but if we use this cutter it's not going to leave us a lot of space is if you really wanted to and there's enough space right here you could cut this you could actually just take this and cut it off right behind the nut and that would leave you with enough pipe to put a new angle stop on without any issue but if you didn't have the clearance back here well once again a mini hack comes into play right because this is a small tight space usually back behind a toilet or under a sink and you're not going to put a hex on here and then what you want to do is you just want to make a slit in this try not to damage the copper sawing just getting the brass don't go too far so then I just usually grab my trusty six in one get down in this little crack right here and just boom not just cracked you see that so that's able to pop right off just saw it until you can crack it so I actually did barely Nick that pipe right there you don't have to go all the way down till you see copper this is a non-ferrous metal it's pretty malleable it's gonna Bend pretty easy and you can pry it right apart little piece of Emery cloth and that buffed right out now you're able to move your old ring you're able to slap your new stop on there and tighten her down that's one of