hose bib handle, more than one design

A friend has a garden faucet / hosebib with a broken handle.

Is there any chance this faucet won't work with the usual handle?

Normally this would seem like a no-brainer but the house is 40 years
old and the handle seems like it might be different from all the
others I've seen.

It only had three spokes, all of which are broken now, and there is no
recess where the screw goes in.

And he feels he has to turn all the water off to the house to unscrew
the handle, and he's making noises about taking off the big packing
nut and taking all that to a plumbing supply house. I think all he
has to do is undo the screw and wiggle off the handle, but if there
was more than one style 40 years ago, I don't want to lead him wrong.

Google searches have gotten me nowhere, but maybe I searched on the
wrong words.

On Jun 22, 6:04 pm, mm wrote:
hose bib handle, more than one design

A friend has a garden faucet / hosebib with a broken handle.

Is there any chance this faucet won't work with the usual handle?

Normally this would seem like a no-brainer but the house is 40 years
old and the handle seems like it might be different from all the
others I've seen.

It only had three spokes, all of which are broken now, and there is no
recess where the screw goes in.

And he feels he has to turn all the water off to the house to unscrew
the handle, and he's making noises about taking off the big packing
nut and taking all that to a plumbing supply house. I think all he
has to do is undo the screw and wiggle off the handle, but if there
was more than one style 40 years ago, I don't want to lead him wrong.

Google searches have gotten me nowhere, but maybe I searched on the
wrong words.

You are probably right about handle removal. Take it off, match it up
with a replacement at Ace Hardware or wherever and you should be in
business
Good luck.

Joe

On Jun 22, 5:30 pm, Joe wrote:
On Jun 22, 6:04 pm, mm wrote:





hose bib handle, more than one design

A friend has a garden faucet / hosebib with a broken handle.

Is there any chance this faucet won't work with the usual handle?

Normally this would seem like a no-brainer but the house is 40 years
old and the handle seems like it might be different from all the
others I've seen.

It only had three spokes, all of which are broken now, and there is no
recess where the screw goes in.

And he feels he has to turn all the water off to the house to unscrew
the handle, and he's making noises about taking off the big packing
nut and taking all that to a plumbing supply house. I think all he
has to do is undo the screw and wiggle off the handle, but if there
was more than one style 40 years ago, I don't want to lead him wrong.

Google searches have gotten me nowhere, but maybe I searched on the
wrong words.

You are probably right about handle removal. Take it off, match it up
with a replacement at Ace Hardware or wherever and you should be in
business
Good luck.

Joe- Hide quoted text -

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And removing the handle will not cause water to run (unless you open
the faucet while working on it). The worst case scenario is that you
would not find a replacement handle and he would have to replace the
faucet (unlikely).

Harry K

On Jun 22, 7:04 pm, mm wrote:
hose bib handle, more than one design

A friend has a garden faucet / hosebib with a broken handle.

Is there any chance this faucet won't work with the usual handle?

Normally this would seem like a no-brainer but the house is 40 years
old and the handle seems like it might be different from all the
others I've seen.

It only had three spokes, all of which are broken now, and there is no
recess where the screw goes in.

And he feels he has to turn all the water off to the house to unscrew
the handle, and he's making noises about taking off the big packing
nut and taking all that to a plumbing supply house. I think all he
has to do is undo the screw and wiggle off the handle, but if there
was more than one style 40 years ago, I don't want to lead him wrong.

Google searches have gotten me nowhere, but maybe I searched on the
wrong words.

your pipe may be copper and the sillcock is a sweat connection with
solder.
maybe it's galvanized pipe and the device is threaded.
FIP means female iron pipe thread standard, usa, usually 1/2" or 3/4"
inside diameter pipe.
search for sillcock or loose key hose bibb at:
http://hdsupplysolutions.com

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:53:28 -0700, Harry K
wrote:

On Jun 22, 5:30 pm, Joe wrote:
On Jun 22, 6:04 pm, mm wrote:





hose bib handle, more than one design

A friend has a garden faucet / hosebib with a broken handle.

Is there any chance this faucet won't work with the usual handle?

Normally this would seem like a no-brainer but the house is 40 years
old and the handle seems like it might be different from all the
others I've seen.

It only had three spokes, all of which are broken now, and there is no
recess where the screw goes in.

And he feels he has to turn all the water off to the house to unscrew
the handle, and he's making noises about taking off the big packing
nut and taking all that to a plumbing supply house. I think all he
has to do is undo the screw and wiggle off the handle, but if there
was more than one style 40 years ago, I don't want to lead him wrong.

Google searches have gotten me nowhere, but maybe I searched on the
wrong words.

You are probably right about handle removal. Take it off, match it up
with a replacement at Ace Hardware or wherever and you should be in
business
Good luck.

Joe- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

And removing the handle will not cause water to run (unless you open
the faucet while working on it).

He thinks he'll have to open the faucet, but after reading the
replies, I think he has a standard handle, and I remember I might even
have a spare, probably that I found in a bunch of small mostly
plumbing parts, and screws, nails, anchorss etc. in a broken tool box
in a trash barrel in an industrial park.

Or I'll buy one, and drop by and fix it for him.

The worst case scenario is that you
would not find a replacement handle and he would have to replace the
faucet (unlikely).

You're right. Thanks to you and Joe and Buffalobill.

Harry K