How to release this copper push-fit?

[mfarrow]

My builder's plumber accidentally removed the wrong radiator. We were due to have a new one anyway (at the time undecided) so I let him just cap it. Problem is I don't know how to get these off without cutting them.

What's the method?

Thanks
Mike

 

[denso13]

Looks like Tectite Sprint and if so I don't think you can remove them without cutting them off.

 

[Madrab]

+1 .... there isn't a removal tool for these that I have found, as there isn't enough space between the pipe and the fitting to push a tool in to force the grab ring teeth back. I use a dremel to cut vertically down in 2 places (could use a hacksaw) and then a small screwdriver to push the wedge up releasing the pipe.

 

[muggles]

As above, it can't be done non-destructively

 

[HERTS P&D]

Sack the painter.

Andy

 

[mfarrow]

Sack the painter.

Andy

He's self-isolating with his missus (who's much older than him and in her 70s, as he kept reminding us).

No dremel so multitool instead, but jobs a good-un.