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Old 01-31-2013, 12:17 PM
JOHN COOKSON JOHN COOKSON is offline
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Originally Posted by hanleyclifford View Post
I don't know how much you pay yourself for an hourly rate, but in your situation I would get the whole thing off at the manifold and start from scratch. Black iron pipe is dirt cheap and a new flange is worth the money.
Yup.
This is what I did on my last hot section rebuild.
I got the flange off the manifold and took the whole mess to a machine shop. It was an automotive machine shop but he had the equipment to work on 1 1/4" pipe threads. He removed the stub from the flange and cleaned up the threads and cracked the pipe off the injection part and cleaned up those threads also. Only charged me $35 bucks and it was done in four days.
Before I took the hot section to the machine shop I went to the hardware store and matched up the necessary plumbing parts and then drew a diagram of how it went together. Piece of cake.

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