Hand pump pipe

[grezmonki]

Hi all, Im looking for any tips or tricks to get broken pipe out from inside a hand pump. I already tried cussi'n and crying - didnt seem to really help much. Thanks

[windybob]

I've gotten a few of those out by working thru the valve opening with a torch and cutting a slot in the threads then taking a rod and chiseling the stub out. All the ones I've done were pipes that had broken off.

[Mister Ed]

I've got one to work on as well. Mine is close enough to the bottom that hopefully I can reach it with a mig torch and weld an extension. Then hopefully turn the pipe off, or break it off farther up inside.

[windybob]

Maybe you'll get lucky and break it off. Then YOU can post a question about how to get it out, and be in the
'broke stub' club. lol

[Mister Ed]

Maybe you'll get lucky and break it off. Then YOU can post a question about how to get it out, and be in the
'broke stub' club. lol

Nah, my luck is more like yours ... pipe wont break, the casting will.

[windybob]

That's pretty stout around there in the middle, plus the torch is not in there very long. Just long enough to get a slit cut in the broken pipe.
I think you'll be just fine.

[Kansas Rust Buzzard]

I have had pretty good luck in blowing steel out of cast iron with a torch, I usually grind a little hook on a chisel so once I make a slot I can curl it out. Sometimes, if I can't and the pipe is still pretty good, I reach in with a stick welder and put a bead on the inside of the pipe, the heat curls it up from the heat and away from the cast iron.

[grezmonki]

I've gotten a few of those out by working thru the valve opening with a torch and cutting a slot in the threads then taking a rod and chiseling the stub out. All the ones I've done were pipes that had broken off.

Tried this method today and it worked fine ,easier than I thought it would. Thank you sir!

[windybob]

Yep. No prob. Another of my secrets is out now. lol

[Wayne]

Windy maybe you need to consider a windmill book.It could be Titled: The previously unpublished windmill secrets of Windy! So they aren't lost when you get to when you don't know your name! He He