How Do I Remove This Tap

[Whitespirit66]

Keep going with the boiled water. Get the head well heated up. Sometimes it just pulls off after this treatment.

 

[GasBod]

FIT NEW TAPS FFS LOL

 

[Whitespirit66]

FIT NEW TAPS FFS LOL

Boring. Where's the challenge in that?

 

[Homesafe]

FIT NEW TAPS FFS LOL

Or maybe just MOVE house

 

[Charnwood]

They're as old as the hills and twice as fugly. Buy some new taps. Much less hassle.

 

[kidgreen61]

They're as old as the hills and twice as fugly. Buy some new taps. Much less hassle.

+1

 

[footprints]

Give it a couple of years and all the trendy retro shops will be charging a fortune for them with the Champagne basin!
Still waiting for my Pampas bathroom suite to come back into fashion

 

[Whitespirit66]

Yes, rip these high quality taps out, that have lasted decades. Then install some Chinese made ones that will fall apart in a year.

 

[pbar]

Well, still no luck I'm afraid. It was well soaked for several hours in WD-40 yesterday, but wouldn't budge still. I left it soaking overnight in vinegar, no joy (but came up really shiny!). I have spent some time with boiling water heating up the top, tried the rubber mallet still and all the leverage that I dare try, but nothing. Any other ideas please. I would hate to change taps for the sake of a washer. And for what it's worth, I like the taps, they have lasted well for years, the cold one which I had apart yesterday is still solid, they are good, quality taps, and I think it would be pointless to waste them. Thanks.

 

[Charnwood]

Can we have a pic of the tap with the red index removed and a pic of the underside of the index.

 

[Madrab]

Have you tried a set of mole grips around the bottom of the tap head (with a wet rag) and then tap up on that?

 

[pbar]

I have used a similar method, with a metal bar wrapped in a cloth underneath the bottom of the tap top, and also tried prising it off levering a piece of wood under it. Seems to be well and truly stuck.

 

[Madrab]

Well we might be getting to the Oxy-Acetelyne or C4 stage pretty soon

 

[doitall]

Are you 100% positive there isn't a screw holding it on, Why else would the indice unscrew.

 

[Terrywookfit]

Are you 100% positive there isn't a screw holding it on, Why else would the indice unscrew.

It holds the head on.
If I remember correctly its a square, not splines on these taps.