replying to Andrew Mawson, Freddie wrote:
Hi Andrew , Thanks for taking the trouble to highlight the typical corporate
stitchups ,and of course the remedy which I followed almost to a T but only
got to the nylon Mushroom cap and then decided to free that with WD40 and a
silicon release agent by rocol. Now I foolishly followed a orevious chaps
advice and done it with the water still on and youve guessed it went of f like
a geyser,had to quickly remove the Filter,any way compressing the piston
repeatedly for a few minutes freed up the valve then I rebuilt it ,noting the
shim under the lever assembly,I replaced the valve with a 19mm multi point
socket first inserting it and turning anti c/w tilI felt it drop in then
reversed turn to cw , no swearing here.
Kind regards Freddie of Thrapston UK

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