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Originally Posted by SD1too
If I understand the term correctly, brake pipe spanners are enclosed tools designed to fit bleed nipples. What you have there is a standard hexagon nut with a pipe through the middle of it. If an open ended spanner doesn't work, it will be necessary to destroy the fitting and buy a new one, but that will mean creating a new flare on the pipe. The equipment can be bought (I recommend the Sykes Pickavant Flaremaster 2) and no special skill is required with the right tools.
I'm afraid Simon that you will have to be patient and allow the time necessary to deal with what is, after all, a common problem on anything exposed to rainwater which is unprotected.
Simon
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I meant the type of spanner that goes over the pipe then 'around' the nut - like the one used in
this video (to get a good view of it, pause then repeatedly stop-start from 3m 27s to 3m 33s - ish
). My ordinary open-ended spanners don't wrap around like that one does - all they do is round off the hexagon.