G'day I'm Kent have you ever used one of these tap re-seating tools? No? Neither have I, but
today we're going to give it a go. This bathroom tap even if you turn it off really tight it still
drips! but I figure if we're going to the effort of turning off the water and dismantling the tap
to replace the tap washer (that might fix it) but we might as well do a full service on the tap.
Stay tuned to this quick video and I'm going to show you all the 'troublemaker' parts of
the tap and how to fix them and also how to use this thing let's get into it...
These taps have got no retaining screws on them so
we actually need to undo this whole tap hood or tap bonnet,
I'm just putting a rag on the grips here so I don't scratch the chrome
yuck
there's the old fibre washer there, that washer can come off
these sort of disintegrate so that's actually
one part we're going to get rid of. There's the tap washer
now let's have a look down inside there at the tap seat that we're going to be grinding
Just looking inside the tap that's the tap seat there, the bronze tap seat that we're going
to be grinding to give it a nice flat smooth surface for the tap washer to close against.
Okay so how this one works is...that's going to be the grinder which grinds away
the bronze or that um tap seat down there and it'll get rid of any scoured metal, any pitting,
any build up of calcium or whatever causes the seat and the tap washer to not bind beautifully,
so we'll push that all the way in there, this big nut - there's two different size threads but that
is an indoor one, that bigger thread will be for an outdoor tap. So wind that all the way down
until it's tight, now that'll be keeping this nice and straight up and down. This next bit of thread
that will be where you wind down just the right amount of pressure so as you turn as you turn the
handle you'll be able to grind away at that tap seat
okay let's have a look at that
So you can see how we've started to resurface it it's not completely flat it's
it's grinding off that further side to us first quite dull on this side of it
Because I've never used one of these before I'm just going to do it in a few
like sort of 3 or 4 attempts, just make sure I'm not over grinding it.
I'm going to put the um reseating tool back in and have another go what I've noticed though
is when we set that to whatever depth we want and we turn the handle it actually
tightens that up which means it's going to be putting more pressure on that tap seat
down there, now I don't want that to happen so what we're going to have to do
is set that to the pressure that we want just finger tight and hold it there
while we do the grinding on this T-bar
Sorry guys I'm having a little bit of trouble focusing down inside the tap on the seat there but
on this angle we can see the light reflecting off it all the pitting has gone it's got a nice clean
bronze surface there so I think that's good! Let's reassemble the tap and see how well it works.
Here's the tap repair kit that I got. inside here we have a replacement body washer,
there's some spindle lubricant, a replacement washer, now we could probably do a better
quality one of these see how this is brass this one's plastic the plastic ones can warp
they're not as, really that's not a good quality one but we'll use it for now. And
O-rings, this tap probably has two O-rings on the spindle, we'll open it up and have a look.
So you hold the body of the tap and unscrew it this way until you see
the O-rings, there we go it's a bit of muck up in there we can clean that out now.
To get these washes off just pinch them with a pair of pliers
Don't worry if they break because these ones essentially
are worn out and we're replacing them now sorry about the rustling of the paper again
And then just give your thread around here a little clean
And around those O-ring seats looks pretty good okay now it's this easy to reassemble
that's your body washer
Sits on there we'll get the new O-rings and you just force them on! one,
two, just make sure they're sitting in there not twisted, not kinked,
sitting in that little recess, we'll get some lubricant on there
And then our new washer so now we can reinstall the tap there's the O-rings
that we installed and our body washer make sure the tap is in the open position
before we put it back into the um that part all the way up
you can start the tap off using the handle but as soon as that thread starts to engage you'll need
to finish it off with the with a wrench just that tight is okay you don't need to go crazy on it
The reason you need to have the tap right open is so when you install the tap back into that
I don't know what that body part is called it doesn't you just want to make sure it's not going
to crush the new tap washer okay now we can close the tap and we'll go and put the water back on
With the water back on now we can just run the tap until there's a steady flow of water coming out
Actually have a little look here
That's the little bits of grindings from that tap seat.
That's the cold tap done! now on to the hot tap,
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