Yep, been there. Had to change out a valve due to a bad cable. Ended up cutting the pipe to allow me to move it so that I could get the flanges far enough apart to remove the valve. While I would rather not have done it, I wasn't too worried about cutting the pipe and using the rubber sleeve. The cut was downstream of the valves, so all it should see is static pressure only when a tank is being drained and I could actually live with a small drip then.
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