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Please see this youtube video for a demonstration of the Aladdin Easifit isolator, or visit their website here.

Its a 15mm lever valve that you can fit to a live pipe, without draining, freezing, bunging or soaking yourself in water. Ideal for namby-pamby plumbers who don't fancy doing a cold mains live, or cutting into a murky heating pipe over a white carpet. :)

It fits 15mm copper, Hep, Polyplumb, speedfit etc, and leaves you with a permanent full-bore lever valve in place.

At just under £30 + vat they aren't cheap - but on the other hand, neither is hours of labour draining and refilling, and freezing isn't always feasible particularly if there is any flow. We are including the toolkit in the freebie.

I have 5 to give away for review. The first 1 goes to Rodolphe for drawing my attention to it at Phex, and the 2nd goes to Bod - I can't remember why, but I have a note that Bod deserves one for some reason. The other three will go to the first three plumbers arms members who PM me their postal address.* Other members - sorry, but if you are a professional plumber, build a good post-count, and apply to get into the arms!

A big thanks to John at NLB Engineering for providing the freebies.

As always, its a condition of the freebie that you promise to come back on the site and post a review. There is a sticky thread for the purpose. The review does not have to be positive, but if you have criticisms please keep them polite and constructive! Sensible feedback (even if its negative) encourages manufacturers to provide the freebies to keep these giveaways going.

Cheers

Ray

*Members ineligible for freebies until they review the Calshot or IntaKlean freebies are: APPlumbing, Croppie, kay-jay, Mike Jackson, JCPLumb, Anz, Stani, Redsaw, Orry Clayton, Destroyer2813, Stevetheplumber.
 
Will it work on an imperial pipe? Don't remember seeing it stated whether you can or not.
 
I think so. half inch is so close a match to 15mm I think it must. I would imagine the 22mm one (when it comes out) will have a big notice saying it doesn't work for imperial pipe work. (Just like a pushfit doesn't).
 
It crushes it, and pushes it to the back of the valve. (That's the clever bit in my opinion).

Weird blade on the cutter. Not toothed as they don't want it to produce any swarf. Must say I'm impressed.
 
i still dont get it?.

i want to see a schematic!

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Looks like it pushes the cut-out piece of pipe down into a recess within the valve housing. I presume it's 'crushed' in such a way that it can't come free and start bouncing around disrupting the flow of water.

Edit: Actually, after looking at the pic it seems the scrap piece of pipe is forever sealed in its own tomb.

Aladdin EasyFit Isolator - Official website

2nd Edit:

What happens to the pipe when installing the Aladdin EasyFit Isolator?

The Aladdin EasyFit Isolator cutter plug has a blade attached to the base which slices through the pipe. The blade has no teeth, instead it is scalloped in order to avoid swarf. The copper or plastic pipe slug is simply compressed into a sealed void at the bottom of the housing.
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What the hell have you done to your thumb?

You know I was giving someone advice earlier that in domestic plumbing you should never have to graunch something with all your might?

Well I should take my own advice.

Repaired a boiler. Which had a faulty divertor motor due to the leaking heat exchanger above it.

So I change the divertor, and set about fixing the leak. I tighten the nut on the heat ex'. Still dripping. So I tighten it hard, the spanner slips, and crushes my thumb against the heat ex'.....I swear. A lot.

All this was being done in the pitch dark, as the customer has a key card electricity meter, which had run out in between me diagnosing the fault and returning with the part. So I had to pop back the next day to check the repair had worked!! LOL.

So I'm blaming the dark.

As a helpful hint for everyone else. The rubber washer that I was tightening the nut on to had gone bullet hard, so no amount of graunching with the spanner was going to stop the leak. In the end, I isolated and drained the boiler and replaced the washer. Took about 10 mins. Had I done that in the first place, I would still have a thumb nail!

You live and you learn!! :)
 
You know I was giving someone advice earlier that in domestic plumbing you should never have to graunch something with all your might?

Well I should take my own advice.

Repaired a boiler. Which had a faulty divertor motor due to the leaking heat exchanger above it.

So I change the divertor, and set about fixing the leak. I tighten the nut on the heat ex'. Still dripping. So I tighten it hard, the spanner slips, and crushes my thumb against the heat ex'.....I swear. A lot.

All this was being done in the pitch dark, as the customer has a key card electricity meter, which had run out in between me diagnosing the fault and returning with the part. So I had to pop back the next day to check the repair had worked!! LOL.

So I'm blaming the dark.

As a helpful hint for everyone else. The rubber washer that I was tightening the nut on to had gone bullet hard, so no amount of graunching with the spanner was going to stop the leak. In the end, I isolated and drained the boiler and replaced the washer. Took about 10 mins. Had I done that in the first place, I would still have a thumb nail!

You live and you learn!! :)
I'm not even gonna read that, he asked what happened to your thumb, not recite 'Only as Life' by Nikhil Parekh! ;)
 
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