Have you tried it? I have, and am some way from being a plumbing and DIY numpty.
Have you tried it? I have, and am some way from being a plumbing and DIY numpty.
What?? That?s like admitting to not having an angle grinder. ;-)
Tim
What, no room for a bit of 1/16 inch alloy sheet?
Yes, *if* you can get to them
Not on taps, but I've done plenty of angle grinder surgery close to sensitive stuff.
Oh, you mean there is an up-stand. But then we were originally talking about baths, not basins.
And basins don't usually have the same access limitations.
So for all your experience, you have never had a location where it was not possible to use a crows foot spanner? Well I have.
A lot of basins I have seen the back-nut for the tap has been in a recess in the porcelain with very little clearance either side of the nut hence a requirement to use a box spanner
How do you get a box spanner onto the pipe? I suppose you could leave it permanently installed. :-)
You disconnect the pipe then slide the box spanner up to the tap fixing back nut.
I used to have quite a lot of old taps, saved in case I could find a use for them somewhere. Got well over £100 when I finally took my collection of lead, copper, and brass scrap to a proper scrap merchant.
There are open spanners...
The fixed basin wrenches are cheap enough that opening out the gape between the flats with an angle grinder might get you a useable tool.
Failing that a crows foot spanner, socket extension bar(s) and square socket drive wrench might do it as others have suggested.
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