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Originally Posted by Malsua
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.
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Thanks, this is the information i was looking for. I'm going to try and twist off the flowtite valve and see if it comes off. Because it's in that box in the wall it may not work but taking a dremel to it, agreed i can probably take it apart without damaging the CPVC.