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Who on earth designed a tap with a double thread (one of which is inverted ?)
I have two here that have started leaking and I suspect the sprog has been testing her strength after leaving the taps to drip continuously over the Christmas peiod.
The hot tap on the bathroom sink has a square looking circlip on it which is above the main device , just below the tap / handle itself, the cold tap has same but is below the main cover.
The idea (I think behind the double screw system is to ensure the neoprene washer is not twisting as it is driven down onto the valve but is there a specific amounnt of internal thread required before the tap interior drives itself out of the housing.
Does more screwing (ooooerrr) force the circlp through the housing and into the open air so that the tap no longer shuts off the water ?
I don't want to spend yet another half day under a basin replacing things, moreso since the taps are over ten years old and discontinued, I had enough trouble finding a similar pitch / length screw to fix the bath tap down two years back when the other half sheared it off.
I have two here that have started leaking and I suspect the sprog has been testing her strength after leaving the taps to drip continuously over the Christmas peiod.
The hot tap on the bathroom sink has a square looking circlip on it which is above the main device , just below the tap / handle itself, the cold tap has same but is below the main cover.
The idea (I think behind the double screw system is to ensure the neoprene washer is not twisting as it is driven down onto the valve but is there a specific amounnt of internal thread required before the tap interior drives itself out of the housing.
Does more screwing (ooooerrr) force the circlp through the housing and into the open air so that the tap no longer shuts off the water ?
I don't want to spend yet another half day under a basin replacing things, moreso since the taps are over ten years old and discontinued, I had enough trouble finding a similar pitch / length screw to fix the bath tap down two years back when the other half sheared it off.