"Tim" wrote in message
...
on a regular outdoor water (hose) spicket...can you just open the top of
the
spicket and replace the worn seat...or do you have to replace the entire
spicket. had a guy at the store tell me that today's pickets have the
stem/seat nut factory sealed...and if you open (break) the seal...you will
get leaking from the stem nut ?

Thanks, TR



You can probably rebuild the hose bib and stop the leak for a while, but
what I like to do is retire the damn things and replace them with ball
valves. One quarter of a turn to full on and no leaks, no washers to futz
with.

--
Roger Shoaf
If you are not part of the solution, you are not dissolved in the solvent.