Valve Washer

You're probably going to have to heat it with a torch. It might be best to remove it from the pipe nipple and put it in a bench vice. You could replace it with a new one cheaper than going through all the trouble to repair what you have unless you're very fond of the old one. :-)

TDD

Remove the "B". The "C" is the packing gland which keeps water from coming out at the stem.

Hank

Thanks!

SG-

As per the other posts, you have to unscrew at "B" to replace the valve washer. On old faucets, that joint is VERY difficult to break loose.

I have two faucets sitting on my work bench, waiting to me to get more ambitious.

So far, I have been unable to disassemble them. :(

I gave up & bought new faucets.

cheers Bob

Second that. I replaced one and was so delighted I replaced four more.

glegroups.com...

These are very heavy duty industrial units, the one's where the washer doesn't turn with the valve stem. Meant to be mounted on a vertical pipe and have the hose connection angled down.

These are not "Made in China" junk.

IF I do give up on them, currently, they're in the "gonna get around to it later" bin, they'd go into the scrap brass bucket not the trash.

cheers Bob

On 12/19/2010 4:25 AM The Daring Dufas spake thus:

"Bench vice"? What are you, British?

Didn't think so.

I just reloaded my dictionary program cuz eye caynt spel sumtymes. :-) I have a lot of fun mixing and matching different spellings of common words to add a bit of "colour" to my posts. Heck I have some ancestors from England. I think some of the ancestors from my ancient ancestors The Cavebillies may have come from England, Cavelimeys I think they were called. :-)

TDD

On 12/19/2010 10:45 PM The Daring Dufas spake thus:

You mean the Hatfields and the Plimsoll-Fauntleroys?