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Fat-Dumb and Happy wrote:
Stormin Mormon wrote:
Remember the old days, when the toilet would continue to run
unless you jiggled the handle?

My new rebuild kit, Fluidmaster, from Home Depot. If I push
the handle, it discharges about half the water in the tank
down the holes through the bowl.

To get a full flush, I have to stand there and hold the
handle down.Is this a design feature? Does that mean I'll
spend the rest of my life holding a toilet handle down?


I just bought a 1.50 cent universal flapper at wallyworld. It's a
piece of crap of course, doesn't even have a chain but a plastic strip
that is supposed to pull through the holes on the flush lever arm. It
wouldn't, of course, so I wound up tying it around the arm.... I'm so
used to holding down on the handle I never thought to just try flushing
it after installing it.

Sounds similar to one I had before replacing all the tank internals.
The plastic strip (a continuation of the flapper) would never bind up
and keep the flapper from closing like metal chains will do.
IIRC, I cut the tips off the barbs to get the strip to fit through the
holes.

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