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John Guest 1/2" tube problem
« on: November 06, 2015, 06:21:00 pm »
Is there a way to take apart a 1/2" John Guest tube stem from a push fit tap, the collet that you normally push in to free the tubing or stem is covered by  the nut on the fitting?

Bit of a complicated description, any help would be appreciated.

Alex Gardiner

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Re: John Guest 1/2" tube problem
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2015, 06:24:32 pm »
Is there a way to take apart a 1/2" John Guest tube stem from a push fit tap, the collet that you normally push in to free the tubing or stem is covered by  the nut on the fitting?

Bit of a complicated description, any help would be appreciated.

Any chance of a photo. I have had this happen before when fitting a stem to a fitting with a protective collar on and have had to break the protective collar off to get at the release collet.

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Re: John Guest 1/2" tube problem
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2015, 06:48:11 pm »
Here hopefully are a couple of photos


Alex Gardiner

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Re: John Guest 1/2" tube problem
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2015, 06:52:22 pm »
Most strange it looks like the tap fittings are missing their release collets completely. They usually look like this:



Not sure how you will get these apart  :(

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Re: John Guest 1/2" tube problem
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2015, 08:07:56 pm »
Thanks anyway Alex will try brute force and a hammer