The Medway Handyman wrote:
Rod wrote:
SNIP
Those taps with horseshoe thingies - I wish they wouldn't make the
bolts out of steel. It rusts. Badly. Takes ages and enormous effort
to remove. Not enough space for an angle grinder. :-( O well, the
new ones have brass bolt and nut. :-)

I once had one so firmly rusted in I had to take the sink out to remove it
:-(


That sounds bad. It would have been very bad for us. No sink until we
could source one because I doubt we would have refitted the old one -
which would probably have meant new worktop as well. And that would not
have matched the other worktops...

Well I did manage - eventually. :-) It was at its worst when I had
undone it by a few turns - so the tap body was entirely free to move.

--
Rod

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