Dirty Brass

Originally Posted by CopperMiner

At one of the yards I go, I even had a 5 months pregnant woman as scale person / buyer. Weird.

Also, is there a way to separate the brass screw from the cheap plastic pipe that go to the valves and the spout? I unscrewed everything, but it looks like the last thing is a plastic tube is inserted in a hollow brass screw part each side and it won't move if I turn the brass part with pliers or a pipe wrench. If I try to pull on the plastic part, I think that it will break apart instead of moving out of the brass tube.

Could you post a picture ?

Without better information ... it sounds like a friction fit. They drove a plastic pipe into the inside of a brass pipe ? The plastic pipe is just a little bit bigger on the outside than the inside of the brass part ?

If that's the case .... cut one or two slits with a 1/16" cutting wheel mounted to an angle grinder. You make a lengthwise cut on the brass and then pry it open a little with a flat head screwdriver. That breaks the bind and the plastic part falls out.