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Originally Posted by jrref
Right but i'm not saying to replace good copper or brass valves every 5 years. It's the hose that's the problem and with these push pull valves we have here in the Villages most of the hoses are crimped to the valve so you need to replace the valve to replace the hose. That's the problem. Once you replace the valve with a new one that let's you screw on a new hose then every 5 years or so you can just simply change the hoses.
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So I swapped out this exact valve for the fridge at my sisters house about 3 hours ago.
Rather than scoring the CPVC, I used my dremel with a rasp bit and cut it off, grinding it on two sides and essentially just peeled it off. Bit of a mess, but the CPVC was unharmed although you can see where the flow-tite teeth were resting.
I pushed a shark-bite valve over it, no leaks, all done.
I have twisted them off before, but that was in places where I had extra pipe and could snip off down to clean pipe. With this fridge valve, if the part that's stubbed out of the fridge housing is no good, I'm into a wall repair.