The plastic end difuser(?) on our kitchen mixer tap was a little limescaled up and was causing the odd random jet of water, so I decided to remove it and give it a little TLC. Having done that I see that the construction of the tap is such that it consists of a flexible plastic tube which carries the hot water which is in turn inside the tap neck. ie the cold water flows around the outside of the hot - fair enough so far.
The problem I have is in reassembly of the tap; the inner flexible plastic tube needs to mate with a brass "top hat" that fits through the diffuser - I'm assuming here that if you've ever taken one of these apart then you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. Anyway - how the hell do you get the plastic tube, (which seems to have exactly zero slack in it) to mate with its brass top hat?
HOT | _______COLD | | \/ \/
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