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wibbled on Tuesday 20 October 2009 01:00

On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:24:21 +0100, Tim W wrote:

Bought bathroom sink later. Having just installed it, I was slightly
surprised to find it had 3/4" tap holes in the ceramic.

Are you sure they're 3/4"? It's usual for tap holes to be much larger as
you describe, so the tap tails fit them "like a turd in a shirt-sleeve"
(an eloquent turn of phrase picked up from one of my tech lecturers :-))

I tried a 3/4" bath tap in them and it fits very nicely. Still a little slop
(few mm) which makes me sure that they were designed to be 3/4".

I cut a 1/4 length of 22mm plastic plumbing pipe or overflow pipe or
whatever's handy, slit if necessary, and slip it over the tap tails to
center them in the hole. You can buy little centering gatgets for this.

I tried again with Dave's Screwfix widget in mind. In the end, due to the
top of the hole sloping meant that the tap didn't bear on much at all. I
decided to buy new taps (all of 26 quid) and sell the others.

But that widget looks like something to remember.

--
Tim Watts

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