One evening I noticed that the kitchen faucet handle was skewed far off to one side and didn’t rotate to the other side as it should. I took the thing apart and found the whole pedestal was rotated:
It turns out that the screws on the clamping ring below the sink had worked loose over the last decade or so, allowing the pedestal to rotate just a wee bit as we swung the spout from basin to basin.
Of course it only rotated a little bit in one direction and never the other way…
I epoxied that aluminum plate when I installed the faucet, because the stainless steel sink top seemed too flexy. The plate stiffened it right up and it’s been fine ever since.
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 