Pat wrote:
"dpb" wrote

| The packing nut is the large nut at the base of the stem around which
| the leak is coming.

The leak actually seems to be coming from the handle area, right in the
front.

Are you sure it's not coming around the stem and just running down or
spraying up to the handle?

The screw at the end of the stem in the center of the handle goes into
nothing but a tapped hole in the stem and there's no water there...

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