Fitted some basin taps for a customer, couldn't get a tap connector flexible
or otherwise to seal on the hot. Nut would do up tight but the washer
wasn't meeting the seat & the flexible could turn.

He'd bought them from our local 'proper' plumbers merchant not one of the
sheds. I returned it & the hot tap in the new set was the same, but the
cold was again fine.

Ended up using the body of the cold & the bits from the hot to build a new
tap.

Looked at the thread with a magnifying glass, seemed perfect.

Could it have been thicker plating on the hot?


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In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
The Medway Handyman wrote:

Fitted some basin taps for a customer, couldn't get a tap connector
flexible or otherwise to seal on the hot. Nut would do up tight but
the washer wasn't meeting the seat & the flexible could turn.

He'd bought them from our local 'proper' plumbers merchant not one of
the sheds. I returned it & the hot tap in the new set was the same,
but the cold was again fine.

Ended up using the body of the cold & the bits from the hot to build
a new tap.

Looked at the thread with a magnifying glass, seemed perfect.

Could it have been thicker plating on the hot?

A tap connector usually has a little spigot which stands proud of the
washer, and needs to fit into a recess in the tap. If the tap doesn't have a
recess - or it isn't deep enough, the spigot bottoms on the tap leaving the
washer floating instead of being compressed. I've had one or two cases where
I've had to file off part or all of the spigot to get it to seal.
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Roger Mills wrote:
In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
The Medway Handyman wrote:

Fitted some basin taps for a customer, couldn't get a tap connector
flexible or otherwise to seal on the hot. Nut would do up tight but
the washer wasn't meeting the seat & the flexible could turn.

He'd bought them from our local 'proper' plumbers merchant not one of
the sheds. I returned it & the hot tap in the new set was the same,
but the cold was again fine.

Ended up using the body of the cold & the bits from the hot to build
a new tap.

Looked at the thread with a magnifying glass, seemed perfect.

Could it have been thicker plating on the hot?

A tap connector usually has a little spigot which stands proud of the
washer, and needs to fit into a recess in the tap. If the tap doesn't
have a recess - or it isn't deep enough, the spigot bottoms on the
tap leaving the washer floating instead of being compressed. I've had
one or two cases where I've had to file off part or all of the spigot
to get it to seal.

I've come across that as well Roger, but it wasn't the case in this
instance. The nut stopped turning before the spigot entered the recess.
Very odd.


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Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk
01634 717930
07850 597257