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builder77 · 11-30-2007, 23:08

Well a bit of reversal here. Guess what? My lines are leaking again! Anyways I took the line off and gave replacing the ferrule a try. I found that the ferrule are a hard steel that was not able to be cut with a hack saw. I ended up using a bench grinder to remove it with LOTS of care as I did not want to so much as touch the line itself with the grinder. I found pinching the ferrule in a small vice grip helps to push the ground sides away from the line. Grind carefully until you see the slightest of cracks in the steel then turn it around and do the other side. It should split off with a slight pinch of the grips. I found a similar gouge line as Bjorn did caused by the ferrule, so I cut the line down to that line. I faced the line after with a fine file, rounded the edges, drilled , and then champhered the drill hole too similar to original. Then I cleaned the entire line including blowing out the inside of the line. I won't know until the morning if things stop leaking, but it looks good so far.

nattieleather I tried to be a bit clear there after just imagining someone going down to their plumbing supply store for a ferrule