I am tapping into the collected wisdon of the group. I have a cabin
where the winters get below freezing on occasion and high RH, in the
summer the temp. can go over 100F with RH below 10%. The hose bibs are
about 50 years old. Most of them are leaking around the stems when on.
Can I use something
to refresh them a special product, WD-40, penetrating oil, tri-flo or?
Or do I just have to bite the bullit and repack them?

Thanks,

CP

On 01/20/2016 9:45 PM, MOP CAP wrote:
....

Or do I just have to bite the bullit and repack them?
....

Ayup. Probably all will do good w/ a new compression washer, too. On
the farmstead here there are a gazillion hose bibs in the yard, garden
and variously scattered about corrals and all...I'd venture most are 70
or 80 year old if a day; I know for fact they've not been replaced since
I was a young'un and that's been the majority of that time span.

I did go about and refurb a significant number of them a couple years
ago by capping three or four rarely used ones, redoing them, then as had
a little time would take another group replacing them with the
worked-over ones. Rinse, lather, repeat...if one only has a few, it's
not such a deal.

I've found there simply aren't any available any longer that have the
quality stems, few-turn full opening and don't have much more flow
blockage internally as these older specimens; at least without being $30/ea.

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"MOP CAP" wrote in message
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I am tapping into the collected wisdon of the group. I have a cabin
where the winters get below freezing on occasion and high RH, in the
summer the temp. can go over 100F with RH below 10%. The hose bibs
are about 50 years old. Most of them are leaking around the stems
when on. Can I use something
to refresh them a special product, WD-40, penetrating oil, tri-flo
or? Or do I just have to bite the bullit and repack them?

Thanks,

CP

The first step is to tighten the packing nut to compress the packing.

http://inspectapedia.com/plumbing/Faucets_Outdoor.php

-jsw

On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 11:14:33 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"MOP CAP" wrote in message
news:2016012019452884581-email@domaincom...
I am tapping into the collected wisdon of the group. I have a cabin
where the winters get below freezing on occasion and high RH, in the
summer the temp. can go over 100F with RH below 10%. The hose bibs
are about 50 years old. Most of them are leaking around the stems
when on. Can I use something
to refresh them a special product, WD-40, penetrating oil, tri-flo
or? Or do I just have to bite the bullit and repack them?

Thanks,

CP

The first step is to tighten the packing nut to compress the packing.

http://inspectapedia.com/plumbing/Faucets_Outdoor.php

-jsw

I've added years to the life of string packings just by loosening the
packing nut a couple of turns and dripping in a few drops of motor
oil, along the stem.

--
Cheapskate Ed

"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 11:14:33 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"MOP CAP" wrote in message
news:2016012019452884581-email@domaincom...
I am tapping into the collected wisdon of the group. I have a cabin
where the winters get below freezing on occasion and high RH, in
the
summer the temp. can go over 100F with RH below 10%. The hose bibs
are about 50 years old. Most of them are leaking around the stems
when on. Can I use something
to refresh them a special product, WD-40, penetrating oil, tri-flo
or? Or do I just have to bite the bullit and repack them?

Thanks,

CP

The first step is to tighten the packing nut to compress the
packing.

http://inspectapedia.com/plumbing/Faucets_Outdoor.php

-jsw

I've added years to the life of string packings just by loosening
the
packing nut a couple of turns and dripping in a few drops of motor
oil, along the stem.

--
Cheapskate Ed

I use my LPS-3 for jobs like that, to see how well it protects metals
other than steel. It dries to a soft wax that's better than nothing as
a lubricant. So far it's worked well on zinc and OK on brass (hard to
tell) but it's not much help on aluminum.

-jsw

On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 19:45:28 -0800, MOP CAP wrote:

I am tapping into the collected wisdon of the group. I have a cabin
where the winters get below freezing on occasion and high RH, in the
summer the temp. can go over 100F with RH below 10%. The hose bibs are
about 50 years old. Most of them are leaking around the stems when on.
Can I use something
to refresh them a special product, WD-40, penetrating oil, tri-flo or?
Or do I just have to bite the bullit and repack them?

Cord is $1.45 at Home Depot and it takes nearly 4 minutes to repack a
bib. Are there any other questions?

There is enough cord in a pack to service at least two bibs, BTW.

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