Old Tap

stevestrat · 27th August 2021, 10:20

This is a long shot but does anybody have any knowledge of the internals of the old tap below

Its on our rainwater barrel in the garden, old boy next door gave it to my father years ago when my father first set up the water barrel. old boy says it came off an old water boiler/clothes washing thing.

It started leaking and getting worse, the leak isn't coming from the nozzle, its coming down the side between the internal rotating part and the body. There must be some kind of washer that has finally given up the ghost but I can't find any information about what's inside.

I undid the screw thing on the front and didn't find anything behind it . . . . God knows what its for; I removed the nut on top of the handle thinking that would release the rotating internal part, even smacked the thing with a mallet but I couldn't budge it.

Any ideas

27th August 2021, 10:20	#1
stevestrat This is my second home ZT260 #243 (resting) Join Date: May 2010 Location: Prestonpans Posts: 22,488 Thanks: 650 Thanked 4,624 Times in 3,358 Posts	Old Tap This is a long shot but does anybody have any knowledge of the internals of the old tap below Its on our rainwater barrel in the garden, old boy next door gave it to my father years ago when my father first set up the water barrel. old boy says it came off an old water boiler/clothes washing thing. It started leaking and getting worse, the leak isn't coming from the nozzle, its coming down the side between the internal rotating part and the body. There must be some kind of washer that has finally given up the ghost but I can't find any information about what's inside. I undid the screw thing on the front and didn't find anything behind it . . . . God knows what its for; I removed the nut on top of the handle thinking that would release the rotating internal part, even smacked the thing with a mallet but I couldn't budge it. Any ideas __________________ Steve T4 Location Map