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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]

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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Here hopefully are a couple of photos

[Alex Gardiner]

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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Thanks anyway Alex will try brute force and a hammer