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Not sure how to get it to bite. Muscle will just spin slide faster. Jaws do not grip pipe. Muscle makes no sense
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not muscle to spin it faster, left arm muscle to push the jaw into the pipe. It’s a thing you get the feeling of. It’s no doubt hard to learn while holding a 24” steel wrench over your head. If you’re in NJ I can teach you
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Got the wrench to bite, but could not get barely any leverage while on a step stool, reaching above shoulders, and other pipes in the way of wrench handle. Or I'm just too weak. Or pipe is 100 years stuck. I guess I'll call a professional
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