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<DIV>After reading all the suggestions you guys offered and discussing the
situation with my old plumber/pipefitter friend, this is what I came up
with</DIV>
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<DIV>Using two or three different sizes of sockets and finally a 1/2” socket
extension with a ‘flare’ from the shaft to the head I slowly swaged the tube
until</DIV>
<DIV>I could insert a normal 3/4” section of tube inside it. I sweat
soldered those two pieces together. </DIV>
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<DIV>While we were digging the ditch for the sink drain we snagged the original
line about 3 feet from where I ‘remembered’ it being. I removed/replaced
the damaged piece with standard</DIV>
<DIV>3/4 stick tubing and we found that the plumber had used stick tube from the
house to the garage and then used the coil tubing to make the radius bend up
thru the floor slab. I’ll never know why... maybe an apprentice's</DIV>
<DIV>decision to finish up early one day</DIV>
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<DIV>I did check the o.d. of the other end of the coiled tube and found it to be
the same as the stick tubing (just like some of you said). Soooooo
the consensus that the tube had frozen and expanded enough to prevent fittings
from going on the end was probably the right answer. </DIV>
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<DIV>after all the drain/ditch work and the repairs I installed a 3/4” ball
valve and opened the valve on the other end... so far (4 hours)... no leaks, no
fountains in the garage, no large wet spots in the yard</DIV>
<DIV>and I’m tired. I should have done this 25 years ago when I built the
house and was in my 40’s.</DIV>
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<DIV>thanks for all the advise, opinion, and discussion... once again this fine
group has saved my bacon..</DIV>
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<DIV>later</DIV>
<DIV>\john</DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>