Got a short piece of 6" PVC I need to remove from this tee.

On my plastic auger project this short stub piece of PVC is glued into this tee.

Top end of this picture.

The old end cap was held on with 4 large screws.

On the replacement end cap the holes do not line up.The end plate can only be mounted a certain way to accept the hydraulic motor that mounts to the end cap plate. 1 of the holes is a match, another is about 1/2 a hole width off and the other 2 are maybe a 1/4 from the old holes in the plastic. The end cap fits on snugly but these 4 large screws keep the motor from torquing and spinning the end cap on the plastic.

I'm concerned that a 2nd hole right beside the old one will weaken and allow enough torquing to tear the plastic pipe.

I would like to heat and remove the old stub piece and glue a new one in. This is the same setup as my drill fill auger and it has worked fine with no issues for 20 years.

I've looked on Youtube and see several people that have heated the short piece of pipe to the point it starts to turn brown then use vice grips to twist it and collapse the heated pipe and remove it from the fitting. The fitting looks clean and is supposed to be reusable again.

It tried it with a 2" piece I had for scrap and it seems to work. I've got a short 4" piece glued up now and will try that tomorrow. Using a high temp heat gun and small butane torch.

Just wondering if anyone has done this before and can report on success and or issues using the fitting over again ?

Probably only got one shot at doing this right and don't want to mess anything up. Biggest concern is will the new piece glue in tightly to the tee that was used before ?

Figured some of the irrigation guys might have done this or encountered this.

Here is the commercial unit in action so you can see what I am trying to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c797Le_FGSw

http://www.pipedebonder.com/cms/