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<blockquote data-quote="NightShade" data-source="post: 3156223" data-attributes="member: 29706"><p>Most of the time when I do something like that I just shut off the water and take it apart. Then take the parts to the store and let them figure out what it is and find what they think is correct. Then take both and look at them side by side. Worst case NO ONE has it and you take yours home and put it back together and buy a whole replacement faucet and go from there.</p><p></p><p>Worked in a building in Lawton as maintenance for all the apartments and used to have to change the two handle faucet rubbers out. The bad thing was that if you didn't know they were leaking the water would etch a channel in the seat and they were not a replaceable kind. I had a couple where I ended up machining the seat a little so it would seal and shut off. Did some major plumbing projects with the owner and his son in law at one point and one of them forgot to cap a line. Water got turned back on in the basement and it started spewing in one of the vertical chases where all the lines were ran. The DERP son in law stood there and just looked at it like a deer in the headlights. I pushed him out of the way and stuck my thumb in the line and plugged it off, told him to tell the owner to shut the water back off. Otherwise it would have been just like the 15 minutes of water video posted except we were on the 6th or 7th floor. 30 seconds of water was enough to have some start coming into three or four apartments below that point already.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NightShade, post: 3156223, member: 29706"] Most of the time when I do something like that I just shut off the water and take it apart. Then take the parts to the store and let them figure out what it is and find what they think is correct. Then take both and look at them side by side. Worst case NO ONE has it and you take yours home and put it back together and buy a whole replacement faucet and go from there. Worked in a building in Lawton as maintenance for all the apartments and used to have to change the two handle faucet rubbers out. The bad thing was that if you didn't know they were leaking the water would etch a channel in the seat and they were not a replaceable kind. I had a couple where I ended up machining the seat a little so it would seal and shut off. Did some major plumbing projects with the owner and his son in law at one point and one of them forgot to cap a line. Water got turned back on in the basement and it started spewing in one of the vertical chases where all the lines were ran. The DERP son in law stood there and just looked at it like a deer in the headlights. I pushed him out of the way and stuck my thumb in the line and plugged it off, told him to tell the owner to shut the water back off. Otherwise it would have been just like the 15 minutes of water video posted except we were on the 6th or 7th floor. 30 seconds of water was enough to have some start coming into three or four apartments below that point already. [/QUOTE]
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