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SOLVED: Chromed Pipe ?
Very new to home plumbing. I had a leaking shutoff valve under my toilet. I simply wanted to replace the shutoff with a new valve - have never sweated in pipes so I just bought a 5/8" - 3/8" shutoff valve with compression fittings. I cut the supply pipe just below the old valve: BIG MISTAKE!
The nut and compression fittings for the new valve would not fit over the supply pipe. The salesman at Home Depot explained that's because the pipe is chromed. And they had nothing that would fit. The best I could do at that point was to try to find a tap & die set to put 5/8" threads on the supply pipe and use a valve with threaded fittings. After hitting 2 hardware stores and a Sears I struck out and went home.
Any suggestions? I thought this was going to be a simple task. Does anyone manufacture valves with compression fittings that fit chromed pipe?
Very new to home plumbing. I had a leaking shutoff valve under my toilet. I simply wanted to replace the shutoff with a new valve - have never sweated in pipes so I just bought a 5/8" - 3/8" shutoff valve with compression fittings. I cut the supply pipe just below the old valve: BIG MISTAKE!
The nut and compression fittings for the new valve would not fit over the supply pipe. The salesman at Home Depot explained that's because the pipe is chromed. And they had nothing that would fit. The best I could do at that point was to try to find a tap & die set to put 5/8" threads on the supply pipe and use a valve with threaded fittings. After hitting 2 hardware stores and a Sears I struck out and went home.
Any suggestions? I thought this was going to be a simple task. Does anyone manufacture valves with compression fittings that fit chromed pipe?
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