Yeah. I had thought the flange itself was part of the fitting, but after after I took a pipe wrench and loosened it, the flange just came off by itself, so I had to cut the old hose bibb off entirely from the pipe.
... also the crimper's jaws just barely open a hair wide enough, if you really pry them apart, to clear the pipe. I was almost despondant after I made the last crimp and couldn't get the crimper off. It was like I had just painted myself into a corner.
The length of PolyB sticking out was a pain too, literally, the back of my hand is badly scratched up from the stucco. I don't remembe the crimper being this hard to use before. Maybe the one I rented from Rona has longer handles or something, but every crimp was a workout, and it wasn't just two hands, it was two hands a knee, pressing as hard as possible. Anyway, the moral might be to rent from Rona next time.
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