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Remove Old Pump and Prepare Pipes

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Hot Water Takes Forever? Replace Your Recirculation Pump in Minutes

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What happens here

Before cutting the pipes, ensure that the water supply valves to the system are completely closed. Position a small bowl or container beneath the section of pipe to be cut to catch any residual water. Using a Ridgid ratcheting pipe cutter, carefully cut the existing copper pipes connected to the old recirculation pump. Once the old pump is removed, use a Ridgid reamer/chamfering tool to deburr and chamfer both the inside and outside edges of the freshly cut copper pipes. Follow this by cleaning the pipe ends with a Scotch-Brite pad to remove any residue or oxidation, ensuring a smooth, clean surface for the ProPress fittings.

Goal: Create clean, deburred pipe ends for new fittings

Tools and materials

  • Ridgid Ratcheting Pipe Cutter Ridgid — Cutting copper pipes to remove the old pump
  • Ridgid Reamer/Chamfering Tool Ridgid — Deburring and chamfering the cut pipe ends
  • Scotch-Brite Pad Scotch-Brite — Cleaning the outside of the pipe ends
  • Small Bowl — Catching residual water during pipe cutting

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direction of flow. Now, you see where we're at. We're going to take this little ratcheting cutter from Ridgid and we're going to get back in here and we're going to open this line up. These valves are closed. Okay. Get that tight. And start [snorts] going. Every two or three turns, give it a quarter turn. Starting to get a little taste of some water right here. There won't be that much water. Cuz both of the valves are shut off. And that is off. I need to give myself space in between right here. That way I can actually get that with the ProPress gun. Cuz if I don't, I will run into it awkwardly. But there we go. All right, we got a little bit more water coming here. There we go. And when you get this off, you can see it's pretty much the exact same pump. Right? Just the solder version. So now we got a little Rigid reamer chamfer. This isn't a necessity. You want to ream and chamfer your pipe whenever you're doing ProPress. And then another little thing I always like to do is just take a Scotch-Brite pad afterwards and just brighten that up a little bit. Get the last of the little burr. You do

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