DHeckrotte
Guru
There has been a little chatter on the MTOA chatgroup, and no doubt here, about replacing the washers on the tub faucets with the Chinese characters on the casting. I have since seen the way the tub is plumbed and have determined that repair beats replacement any day!
One fellow on the MTOA site said that he'd found replacements for the entire removable portion of the valve at a large ACE Hardware.
First pic: why I'm gonna' fix rather than repair. That's metric copper tubing and metric flare fittings. Hull to the left, Melamine-faced plywood on the right at the back of the fixture, sit-tub lower right. Needless to say, I could not get my head there to see what I was taking the pic of. Well, maybe the pic has posted with top-to-right...
Second and third pics: the cold water valve stem.
One fellow on the MTOA site said that he'd found replacements for the entire removable portion of the valve at a large ACE Hardware.
First pic: why I'm gonna' fix rather than repair. That's metric copper tubing and metric flare fittings. Hull to the left, Melamine-faced plywood on the right at the back of the fixture, sit-tub lower right. Needless to say, I could not get my head there to see what I was taking the pic of. Well, maybe the pic has posted with top-to-right...
Second and third pics: the cold water valve stem.