Jeff Davis
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1- make sure you didn't also unsolder the male adapter from the assembly in the process.
looks like you tried to twist the copper pipe out of the brass. You're better off tapping it out.
With a second set of hands. Get some heat absorbing putty to put on the 3/4 copper body / brass adapter so you don't unsolder that part. Gently clamp the assembly to a work bench that won't move or wiggle. Clamp a vicegrip pliers to the end of the copper pipe. Then with just enough heat that the solder melts.. tap the vice grip with a hammer away from the brass.
A propane torch flame is hottest at the tip of the bright blue flame.. Every distance further away from that point is less hot. Solder melts at a significantly less temperature than that hottest part of the flame.. you can maintain the 800° needed to keep solder molten an inch or 2 from the hottest bit of the flame.
You likely have 1 chance to get that pipe out. The method I described will ruin the roundness of the tip of that pipe, but I suspect that its already at that point.
@Tuttles Revenge, it was sound advice, but for whatever reason, that copper pipe just didn’t want to come out, and the heat blocking putty that I purchased was about as useless as tits on a bull—it was a crumbly mess.
I’ve got another few rounds in me, so
I ordered a new hose bibb.
Aftermath: