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Cut a piece of what I presumed would be (and still suspect must be) imperial half inch copper that was in a tight space with little visibilit to replace the very old stopcock above it which had had a few repairs attempted on it and the customer just wanted a new one.
Cleaned pipe well. Felt it. Felt smooth and good. So cut it. Then found it was too thick to fit anything on it. Not even nearly. No olive or compression fitting or soldered fitting would even begin to fit on. It was just slightly too big. It wasn't distorted or buggered. Took bit I cut out to best local merchant and spoke to the guy who knows the most. He was confused too. His best guess was at some point it came slightly close to being frozen but didn't and had swelled in a bizarrely uniform manner.
A philmac sorted it but still, puzzler. Any ideas what it might have been?
Cleaned pipe well. Felt it. Felt smooth and good. So cut it. Then found it was too thick to fit anything on it. Not even nearly. No olive or compression fitting or soldered fitting would even begin to fit on. It was just slightly too big. It wasn't distorted or buggered. Took bit I cut out to best local merchant and spoke to the guy who knows the most. He was confused too. His best guess was at some point it came slightly close to being frozen but didn't and had swelled in a bizarrely uniform manner.
A philmac sorted it but still, puzzler. Any ideas what it might have been?