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Default Kitchen sink mixer tap drips - can it be fixed?

On Thursday, 28 December 2017 14:24:27 UTC, jim wrote:
tabbypurr Wrote in message:
On Thursday, 28 December 2017 08:07:06 UTC, Adrian Brentnall wrote:
On 27/12/2017 22:24, jim wrote:
Adrian Brentnall Wrote in message:


HI Folks
We had a lever-operated kitchen kitchen sink mixer tap fitted about four
years ago - in the past few months it's started dripping.
It has quarter-turn levers - I'm guessing that these operate ceramic valves?

If so - does anybody have experience of obtaining replacement valves,
and how are they fitted. I'm expecting that the lever is held on by a
screw, under the end-cover - but how do you get the conical cover off
without damaging the chrome?

WD40 & luck! Strap wrench? Or find spares & get the mole grips
out. Put new ones on with coppaslip on threads.

Thanks Jim.
I think I have a strap wrench somewhere... that would be kinder than
mole grips g


WD40, grease & copper powder in the drinking water too.


Knobhead,


I'm certainly hoping that's not relevant

we're talking about the covers over the valves...

Sstf ;-)


I guess you're retarded enough to think that low viscosity liquid could never get in the water. Enjoy your toxins. Wite spirit does affect thinking skills.