Plumbers tool??
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And as every RGI knows with a kitemark is OK for use on Gas Runs, while the formed sockets are not....
DH
On balance I'll let you off just this once.
Think I might look into the Rothy tool though... Got some big stuff coming up and 35mm and 54mm fittings are firking expensive.
Any other brands you can recommend?
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As an RGI I know to read the British standards which says formed sockets are just fine.
Why make up the rules when you've already been told chapter and verse as to where it says it's ok.
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DeltaT2
For Tee extraction I'd recommend using Mapp gas & Rothy S94 rods for your joints........Or Oxy/Act, even better than Mapp gas.
Not sure who manufacturers the Rothy tee extractor kit, as you know they manufacture very little of their own stuff.
Have fun!!
Tah muchly.
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DeltaT2
No problem mate. If you do Low Loss headers or any kind of headers they're great, and for teeing into anything above 28mm we'd aways use them. But to be frank, we've never used just standard solder.
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DeltaT2
That's good to hear, but each to their own, and your work speaks for it's self mate. First class work & you clearly know your onions.
My local water authority did ban the use of this tool back in the mid-seventies - and I've never used mine since.
But "hey oh" what goes around tends to come around I guess.
I remember having to re-pipe an entire CH system once because of all the leaks were these things had been used.
Some of the joints we could just tug apart!
Could be though that the inside of the pipe is very difficult to clean properly and this was also a time before the self cleaning fluxes were introduced.
Personally because of the above experience, I wouldn't be happy using one today.
servotech,
But "hey oh" what goes around tends to come around I guess.
I remember having to re-pipe an entire CH system once because of all the leaks were these things had been used.
Some of the joints we could just tug apart!
Could be though that the inside of the pipe is very difficult to clean properly and this was also a time before the self cleaning fluxes were introduced.
Personally because of the above experience, I wouldn't be happy using one today.
servotech,
Sorry wrong thread...I saw the title 'plumbers tool' and I thought it was about joe90.
That's under the thread "tool". Had to keep it simple so that he could find it. 
Which tool Servotech?
The expanders or the T extractors.
ITE make the best expanders. Made thousands of joints with them.
Rothenberger were cr@ap in comparison, not unless they have improved them.
They also do a cordless expander kit....
http://www.ite-tools.com/uploads/English/ITE_Tube_working_tools.pdf
my rothenberger expanders look pretty much identical apart from different colour handles?
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