Comments on: Faucet Washers

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 17:01:43 +0000

I’ll put that link up in the post where it belongs… thanks!

By: madbodger

madbodger — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 16:44:47 +0000

Since I had the data anyway, I lightly formatted it into an HTML table for reference:

http://www.vitriol.com/washersizes.html

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 10:50:52 +0000

This may be a large part of it:

builders were not used to working to the exacting standards required on nuclear construction sites, since so few new reactors had been built in recent years

We know the bad side effects of a monoculture, but making every reactor an R&D project doesn't work well, either.

By: Aki

Aki — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 09:55:45 +0000

A lack of (coherent ones) standards may explain this…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant#Construction_delays

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:51:08 +0000

a table of the dimensions for washers

Except that you always buy a big package of assorted washers, then rummage around to find the one that's closest to the crushed and warped fragments pried from the bowels of the faucet. Despite my kvetching about the O-ring seals on the kitchen faucet spout, the water valves have worked perfectly all along. Given the replacement cost, that's a very good thing!

By: Red County Pete

Red County Pete — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 02:29:39 +0000

Hmm, sounds like a table of the dimensions for washers would be Really Useful if some poor devil did one. OTOH, I just got rid of the last* faucet that needs washers. For some reason, cartridges last enough longer that it doesn’t hurt to replace them. Of course, with Home Desperate an 80 mile round trip, minimizing the trips into town is a Good Thing.

* except for the random kitchen faucets at church and the parsonage, though the bathrooms have Delta bits and I have spares already.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:48:58 +0000

I think I know more now than I did two minutes ago, but I'm not certain of anything except that plumbing sizes make no sense whatsoever. Uh, thanks, anyway. [grin] This reminds me of the situation with bicycle spoke diameters:

A particular problem is that French gauge numbers get smaller for thinner wires, while the U.S./British gauge numbers get larger for thinner wires. The crossover point is right in the popular range of sizes used for bicycle spokes:

I'm sure it all made sense at the time...