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[raistlin]

Trying to put a screw-in diffuser in one of the bathroom taps.

I know it's the correct size and thread but it just refuses to catch the thread in the tap spout.

Can anybody suggest how to get the darned thing to engage please?

Thank you

[Arctic]

Hi Paul.
Try using a brillo pad just inside the tap hole as it may be holding a bit of scale stopping the thread from catching, also try starting it off at an angle then straighten it up as you turn Arctic

[Duncan]

Sometimes it helps to turn the thing backwards and feel for the click that indicates the start of the thread.

[raistlin]

Great ideas. Thanks chaps. I'll have another go.

[raistlin]

Well... no further forward

What next please?

[Arctic]

Another cheat is to put two slits into the diffuser about 2mm north and south or east and west, either opposite each other this will then allow the end to push together a little and hopefully give you a start good luck.

Disclaimer all plumbing work carried out is at the own risk of the user

[raistlin]

Thanks Steve,

I now know what the problem is though.

The O/D of the aerator is 18mm but the I/D of the tap spout is 16mm where the thread is.

[Duncan]

That'd do it.....

[Arctic]

I now know what the problem is though.

The O/D of the aerator is 18mm but the I/D of the tap spout is 16mm where the thread is.

That'd do it.....

So wrong aerator then still try the little cuts if no good best to buy the right size, from B&Q or from Wikes

[raistlin]

I now know what the problem is though.

The O/D of the aerator is 18mm but the I/D of the tap spout is 16mm where the thread is.

That'd do it.....

So wrong aerator then still try the little cuts if no good best to buy the right size, from B&Q or from Wikes

I couldn't find them in Wickes Steve

[Bermudan 75]

Paul. do you have a local Plumbcentre?

[Arctic]

Paul. do you have a local Plumbcentre?[/quote

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we sure do also could try online
http://www.plumbcenter.co.uk/webapp/wcs ... SearchView



34 BIRMINGHAM ROAD
WOLVERHAMPTON
WEST MIDLANDS
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Parts Center Tel: 01902 870002
Drain Center Tel: 01902 455944

PS Also Carvers

[raistlin]

Thanks both. I have already spoken to Plumb Center in Wolverhampton. They told me that I needed the exact manufacturer and model number of the tap. The bathroom having been fitted some 20 years ago, and the fitting company having ceased trading, I don't think there's much hope of that

Haven't tried Carvers though Steve. That's an idea

[Tootall]

Do not know if this is of any use to you http://www.amazon.co.uk/AERATOR-interna ... B00CP389YO

[raistlin]

Thanks Keith If it was a 16mm male it would be perfect

[Jumper]

Do you have a friend with, or access to, a set of Taps (stocks)from an engineering workshop? Judicious (!) use of a medium taper tap would identify the correct thread as a first step. If so, proceed with caution and the lightest touch.