| Posted by hj on February 05, 19101 at 23:39:22: | |
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| In response to Re: Fixing your own faucets is a lost art | |
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And once upon a time, you could replace the points and condenser in a distributor and change the spark plugs and that would be an engine tune up. My, how times have changed. : Jim wrote a nice article about faucets, the link below has the full story. : Advent of the washerless cartridge in 1947 seen as progress by most plumbers : BY JIM QUINN : Once upon a time, not so many years ago, it was easy for any amateur to repair leaking faucets. : The job could be done with a screwdriver and a wrench. All you needed to do was replace an inexpensive little rubber washer. The job took five minutes, You could find instructions in any decent how-to book. : My, how times have changed.
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