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"Eigenvector" wrote in message
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"mm" wrote in message
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I wrote:



Some seats are replaceable. Look inside the hole and see if there

is
a slot in the ccurrent seat (interrupted by the hole through which

the
water goes.) A flat screwdriver removes the seat. But like he

says,
only if it feels rough.


I don't know what I was thinking. Replaceable seats have a square
hole in the middle and use a tapered square tool to be removed. I"m
sure the tool is not expensive at all.

When I described the slotted part, I might have been thinking about
carburetor parts.


You can use a flat bladed screwdriver too, but it's doubtful that a

standard
screwdriver would give you sufficient leverage to unmount the old seat.

But
as for those angle shaped seat wrenches - they're 12 bucks for a dual seat
configuration (square and hex hole seat).


Or even less, as an example:
http://www.blackrhinotools.com/const...at-wrench.html

I think I paid somewhere around $5 or $6 for mine.

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Roger Shoaf

About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then
they come up with this striped stuff.