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Remove Compression Sleeve and Install New Ball Valve

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How to Replace a Old Toilet Shut Off Valve...RIGHT TOOLS FOR THE JOB!!

What happens here

With the old valve removed, you'll see a compression ferrule (sleeve) remaining on the copper pipe. This ferrule must be removed to install the new ball valve correctly. Use a compression sleeve puller, a specialized tool designed to slide over the pipe and extract the old ferrule. Thread the puller onto the exposed pipe, then tighten the nut on the puller to create leverage. As you tighten, the puller will gradually slide the ferrule off the pipe. Once the ferrule is removed, inspect the copper pipe for any damage or burrs. After the old ferrule is removed, apply a small amount of pipe dope (thread sealant) around the ferrule portion of the new quarter-turn ball valve, avoiding the threads. This provides an extra layer of sealing for the compression connection. Position the new ball valve onto the copper pipe, ensuring the escutcheon plate (the decorative flange against the wall) is in place, and hand-tighten the compression nut. Then, use the one-stop wrench to hold the valve body and an adjustable wrench to tighten the compression nut another quarter-turn. This is usually sufficient to create a watertight seal without overtightening.

Goal: Replace the old compression ferrule and install the new quarter-turn ball valve.

Tools and materials

  • Adjustable Wrench Crescent
  • Megaloc Pipe Dope Megaloc

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we just got a little toilet paper down there and so the next thing we're going to do this right here is my favorite compression sleeve puller of all time this is made by the english tool company and i'm gonna tell you there's nothing like it okay i am a hundred percent positive i've tried many i will be doing a tour review soon and a comparison on all the different ones these that i have i've probably got four different ones at home right now and i'm going to tell you by far this little bugger has been the best so you take this you want to unscrew this out put this over this get it all the way out as far as you can and you want to thread it into that nut that's still on there and then i grab one of these wrenches right here that actually have the ratcheting box inside because i want it to just work very easy for me if you guys like this kind of content please jump on in here subscribe to the channel you know i'm just trying to do things to help homeowners out hopefully i'm doing that for you and i'd love to have you keep coming back and so now you're just going to tighten this up get it as tight as you can and you just keep turning turning turning turning as you turn this is actually pulling off the wall right there let me see if i can get up here and show you just on that back side right there you can see that shiny copper coming through up top there sorry if this is shaky it's kind of hard to to do really this is a very very tight spot here okay but we're almost off [Music] it's almost having to do this whole thing one-handed [Music] okay so that's off of there and look at that if you get down on there look at that you can see where it goes from shiny to just used brass right there so around that brass barrel like nothing's gonna get in there that's actually pretty tight we're gonna take some mega lock i like to use mega lock just right around not the thread so much but actually right around the ferrule portion right so right around here because this is actually going to seal right inside this nut and right around this piece of the valve right there that actually just sits in there and it compresses on so we can put a little touch on the threads too but really where i like to go is right here so just right around this a little bit of pipe dope there we could put just a little bit around this too doesn't have to be tons some people might tell you oh you don't even need that but you know what i like to not have a leak and mega lock always is available it's…

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