SS Vamo - Threads any better than the bras ones?

[Brambles]

Use a couple of brass 22mm plumbing couplings with copper olives to grip the cap and body of the stainless steel vamo. You need to tighten them on firmly. It works a treat as you now have something larger and solid to grip and wiggle the joint apart It will not damage or distort the SS body unless you really over tighten them so trial and error, you start again making them tighter. Try and get the olive on the cap just a tad over the bottom edge of the cap. This lets it grip better.
No damage to the SS finish and any copper staining wipes off. Oh yes, if the olives bind to the vamo, use pliers to squeeze the olives so the jaws of the pliers or pipe grips firmly to indent the olive ( but not the vamo of course) and it stretches them and they will come off.

Best tip I have ever come up with...took me a while looking at what I could use before it struck me what might work and now used it many times.

[jeffc]

giles try again on the new info shown on my post.

[giles]

Thanks Brambles that looks like it might work even for me. But Jeff's method doesn't need the cap taking off - thanks jeffc

Goes off to look for safety pin..

[giles]

And it worked! Fiddliest thing I've done since I rewicked an iclear, but at least I got to destroy a couple of carts that I hated. Used the sleeve off a nova head in the end. Thanks jeffc!

[Brambles]

I kind off lost the track of what was trying to be done, agree your method is best if its just the grommet being replaced. It was very late last night when I read and posted!!!!