waste clean out caps....

[Jim Martin]

normally the caps have a square top that sticks up and I just put a channel locks on it and twist it off...

lately I have been seeing more and more of this type..and cant seem to locate anything that I can use to remove it....

any thoughts....

 

[Nate The Great]

A really big screw driver.... Or maybe the end side of a 12" crescent wrench... At least that's my thoughts...

 

[Newman]

I normally used the head of a large pair of channel lock pliers

 

[FredC]

http://www.google.com/search?q=Clea...=728&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&cad=b

http://www.google.com/search?q=Drum...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

 

[Dolly Llama]

as soon as ConnOrhEd is done playing "whack-a-mole" with Bri-ann, he'll be along to tell us which is the best tool...
he's a plumber and Honeydipper extraordinaire , you know !gotcha!


.l.T.A.

 

[Jay_wat]

use the back of the channel locks (the curved end) it fits in nice,,and turns easy.

 

[Jay_wat]

i like those caps,,esp on the commercial accts,,with the other caps,,vandals can take them off easy and put all sorts of crap down the sewer line,,, can make cleaning out a line a PITA!!!

 

[John Watson]

So proud of my son, The ex turd herdeler.

 

[Connor]

They make a tool, but I use the curved end of my channel locks.

If the cap is deep in a valve box or under the floor, i use the blade end of a five foot digging bar and turn it with a pipe wrench.

Looks like that, but about five feet long. I got it from Home depot.

 

[Zee]

We use the prybar. The one that is about a foot and a half long. the curved end fits in there nice and you just turn them. (i think they are about an inch and a half wide and pretty flat)


There is also another type around here that looks exactly the same except it won't twist off. It needs to be just "popped" off all together and pushed back on when finished.
I learned it the hard way...by breaking a couple I was trying to turn and twist.

 

[Luis Gomez]

I have the big metal jacks thingy ... and it will not work with the
plastic caps, it only works for the brass ones. For those I use a
small flat pry bar.
Luis