Recent content by saleler226

Nope unfortunately don't have a shutoff valve just for that area. Would have to shut off the entire house. I figured if I had ever gotten the nut free and the cartridge did blow out, then I'd just quickly run and turn the water off lol. Then replace the cartridge and add the new nut and be...

OK thanks. I'll think about that. (Below the nut is the cartridge and I don't want to melt that right now because if I do, then I'll need to shut off the water in the house and it'll suddenly become an urgent matter to resolve.)

Is there any sort of liquid that can be poured in there that may help break that bond between the plastic and the threads?

Ugh, unfortunately it looks like the soldering idea isn't going to work. I tried that on a part of the retainer nut and while it indeed melted, it didn't help crack the rest of the plastic nut like I had hoped. It seems like every single bit of that nut is stuck pretty nicely on the valve...

Yeah I'm almost at the point of just replacing the whole thing. The problem is it's very difficult. It involves cutting through drywall, plywood and tiles to be able to replace the whole valve. But hoping the soldering gun idea works out.

ok thanks! i'll go buy a soldering gun now and try that. I don't know much about plumbing but this really seems like an insane design.

Do you have a link to the video?

Unfortunately, it's actually not even close to being out. You can't tell from the picture but the height of the plastic nut is about 1-2 inches so it goes a bit down. I've probably removed about 1-2 millimeters of that. I wasn't worried about losing any pieces in the valve yet because under...

Here's what the valve looks like. The black part that you see is the plastic and you can see it's all torn apart now by my efforts to remove it. But it seems to be so incredibly stuck to the threads of the valve.

Due to a faucet leak, I'm trying to replace a Moen 1248 cartridge. Moen sent the part and instructed on using the 14272 removal tool to remove the retainer nut before removing the cartridge. However, the plastic retainer nut is extremely stuck. The 14272 tool was useless for this job. It just...