Recent content by newlad

Sorry, BoxBasher, you've got me there too.

Sorry! Now I've said 'connectors', but originally I called them 'exctensions'! ( Incidentally, your illustrations did not show on this screen - just a blank space. Something else to sort out at this end. )

Info: the things I called connectors are solid brass, one 25mm long, the other 35mm long; they came new with the new taps. Without them the supply pipes would not have reached. The old taps had tails that much longer. Curious: each time I had to undo those joints the brand new fibre washers...

That's brilliant, thanks. I'll have another go.

Wound it round the threads of the shank of the tap, and round the shank of the extension. But I started at the beginning of the threads, maybe that was wrong. And I didn't know how many layers thick it should be. Each nut got really hard to tighten, so I supposed it was sealing on the fibre...

Bath taps; new ones with new extensions; I first fitted with all four joints done with ptfe tape - leaks! Went round all joints trying for extra tightenting - leaks! Dismantled, fitted new fibre washers in all four cups, tightened - still some leaking from the one further out of reach. Do they...