I need to replace a radiator and rad valves on a 30 year old 8mm microbore system and will take the opportunity to fit a TRV. Jonathan Collier, Managing Director adds “products will go through iterations which often we never see at the original outset of the product; we also have new designs of the product coming out in 2018.”

Olive Cutter - Monument Tools

The Monument Olive Cutting Tool is designed to remove an olive from copper pipe without damaging the pipe and without producing swarf/debris. The original version features pressed steel handles and a water jet profile of tool steel to create the blades. The blades are housed in a body of tool steel. The handles are injection moulded around or slid on to the handles. How do Olive Removers work ? The Monument Olive Cutter was originally launched in 1998. It is single sized and designed to cut through copper 8mm 10mm 15mm and 22mm olives found in compression fittings. An olive cutter (also known as an olive splitter) is a hand tool that uses two sharp blades to cut an olive off a copper water pipe. They can also be used to cut off rings and ferrules. I have the non-plier olive puller and I'm very unhappy with it, as said it takes a lot of effort and it leaves the pipe end mushroomed.Has anyone tried the proprietary 8mm olive cutter that I see advertised? I have a house full of rads still to do and it would be well worth the cost if the tool works OK. Olive cutters come in two different types, a plier type and a screw type. The plier type is best if you have space to work with, whereas the screw type is best for small spaces. To use a screw type olive cutter, the process is the same, except you screw the tool to cut instead of squeezing. The Made In Britain product is available in Monument, Instinct and Entity brands. The Ox version of the olive cutter is not Made In Britain. The Nerrad version of the olive cutter was originally supplied by Monument. Well the job turned out OK but I have to say that I found sawing off the olives quite fiddly without cutting into the pipe or stressing it too much - and I am quite a patient person.

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John Collier, Chairman of Monument Tools wants inventors to feel comfortable when approaching a manufacturer to design and market their invention. Often inventors have no experience of working with manufacturers, let alone bringing a product to market. The Olive Cutter and Olive Puller work in different ways and at different angles. The Olive Cutter is great where there is little room at the end of the pipe. The olive puller works where there is more room. This product also has a power tool attachment which some times helps when the olive is severely compressed onto the pipe. Olive Remover brands I would never use a Stanley knife blade for that. They are far too hard and brittle and little bits can fly into people's eyes. A screwdriver is safer. Unlike an olive puller which can damage the underlying copper pipe work, an olive cutter lets you perform a very accurate cut, so you can remove the olive without damaging the rest of the pipe.Neil and Gerry first came up with a rough and ready prototype of the Monument Tools Olive Puller. The first draft of the product was big and bold. From this initial concept tool Monument further refined it to become the first version of the Monument Tools Olive Puller, still available from Screwfix. Monument Tools help to evolve products with its manufacturing experience as well as working with focus groups to help further enhance the design.

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Its very easy to use a solder coupler to fit a new length of tube. Once the tube has been compressed it will be difficult to fit a new olive anyway.The problem is actually that the copper pipe is soft copper for bending by hand and even though the nuts are small they are often over tightened and cause the olive to compress the tube.