On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 03:10:11 -0800 (PST), DerbyDad03
wrote:

On Thursday, December 17, 2015 at 4:49:05 AM UTC-5, Micky wrote:
Is it hard to remove the spout on a bathtub, 36 years old.

How tightly would it be on?

Chrome-plated metal.

Corroded, I'd like to put in a new one, but I don't want to break off
the part that points down and then have the water shooting out
sideways.

https://www.plumbingsupply.com/info-tubspouts.html

And it says "Step 2: Apply approximately 4-6 wraps of PTFE thread
sealing tape" Either that's girly stuff or it's good advice. But I
never thought one could use more than 2 or 3 layers. Very
interesting.

BTW, I think normally a spout would last a couple hundred years, but
in order to keep the bath water warm, I have to add a little hot water
most of the time. I don't know yet if the water cools off or I just
get used to the temp and have to have it hotter.

And the water falling into the bath water makes so much noise it's
hard to hear the radio or tv, so I take a sock and a rubber band and
run the sock down to the water level, so the water makes barely a
sound as it enters. I've been doing this for 20+ years and the first
sock lasted 20+ years. Would have lasted longer, but the washer on
the cold water valve got bad and the sock stayed wet for a few days,
and then the sock rotted. And that also hurried the rotting of the
spout, which was getting pitted on the outside, but afaik hadn't lost
much strength until recently.

I replaced the washers (and the stems) and added a new sock, but this
time I used one of those socks they give you in the hospital, with
rubber treads, so you won't fall down.

Since I don't have polished floors here, I find them useless for any
purpose, so I used one on the faucet. All but one or two times, it
always dried completely within a couple hours of my bath but still
fell apart in 3 months. That's actually good. That means they
aren't wasting money making quality socks that most people throw away
after a day or two's use. (Or it's cotton and the other was partly
synthetic.)

What's interesting is that I can turn the volume up so that I can hear
it well with the water running and no sock, but when the tub is full
and and I turn the water off or mosly off, the radio, which wasn't too
loud before, is now uncomfortably loud, and I have to get out of the
tub to turn the volume down. (With the TV, I have a volume control
on the wall next to the tub, but the current tv no longer works well
with the wall mounted speakers, a woofer and a tweeter I took from a
1930's record player, and have been using in two consecutive bathrooms
over the last 40 years. Another small tv doesn't even have an
earphone jack but I'm sure I have one that does, or I'll put one in,
and I'll change tv's soon.)