Faucet seats

Get a "seat dresser" and re-surface the old seat. Don't know about in the USA but about 10 Canafian Mini-bux at Canadian Tire

Turn the water off, take the seat out and take it to a plumbing supply store. They should be able to match it visually, regardless of what make or model of fixture it came out of. They'll also have any washers - the proper washers - that you might need.

The following says that beveled washers are often used when flat washers no longer work.

Okay, will do. I like to have the parts before I take something apart, but I guess I'm stuck herre.

I'm glad to hear this. Makes my prejudice in their favor seem to have some sense.

Clare I do have a seat dresser somewhere. Maybe it was cheap or I was a newbie but it didnt' work that well when I tried it in another house 50 years ago. Anyhow, these seats seem to be nylon so I don't think it would work.

I vaguely remember changing the seats in the bathtub 20 years ago, but I guess they would have been bigger because it's a bathhub. It was already hard to get stems then, or maybe because it's Eljer? There were only two store in all of Baltimore which sold parts for "old" fixtures, and one of the stores, which has since closed because the owner was old, bought his supply from the other. (The other is far away.) The house was only 25 years old then and I was told it was old. My position was that no plumbing should break in less than 25 years and after 25 years is when spare parts are most needed, that it was silly to sell them in the first 25 years but not later. The spread of one-handled faucets has just made the problem greater.