On Sun, 16 May 2010 17:21:44 +0100, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

Proper plumbers merchant might help.

Yes, I was thinking of going to a few tomorrow, taking the remaining
bolt with me. I just wondered if there was any mail order supplier to
save me the time and petrol. I always though BES were a "proper"
merchant but they didn't have them; OTOH it's not the "proper" part
for the job, is it?

Is PTS a proper merchant? That's the nearest I have, I think.

Most of the ones I've seen have used stainless steel bolts

But wouldn't even that rust if constantly submerged?

" I know, instead of using that perfectly good idea thats been
around for ages, lets drill holes in the botton of the 20+ litre water cistern".

I quite agree. If they are not tight enough, it will leak. A silly way
of doing it imho but presumably cheaper.

Whilst I've got the cistern off, is there a fast filling valve? This
has a torbeck at the moment. Very quiet but also very slow. Isn't a
flush 6 litres on a new loo and 9L on an old one? For such a small
volume, why does it take so long to fill?

TIA