This seems like the simplest problem, but I need some help. I have hot and cold water supplying my clothes washer, house built in 1979. The plastic handle for one of the valves has cracked and won't turn the stem.
The stem has 8 splines and the handle has 8 matching grooves (or maybe the grooves are the splines, but you know what I mean.) It's a NIBCO valve. The handle is a blue plastic wheel with a wavy circumference and 6 spokes, but I'll settle for anything that will fit the stem.
The only handles I can find online fit square shafts, or they are called 16-point or 12-point, with 16 or 12 little bumps inside the circle. Maybe if it's plastic I can use a soldering iron to burn off 8 bumps and leave 8 more, but that doesn't seem like the right way to fix it, or that it would even fit.
I've looked on webistes of HomeDepot, Lowes, Amazon, Ace, and Ferguson Plumbing Supply (Feguson's has NIBCO parts but not this.)
The stem has 8 splines and the handle has 8 matching grooves (or maybe the grooves are the splines, but you know what I mean.) It's a NIBCO valve. The handle is a blue plastic wheel with a wavy circumference and 6 spokes, but I'll settle for anything that will fit the stem.
The only handles I can find online fit square shafts, or they are called 16-point or 12-point, with 16 or 12 little bumps inside the circle. Maybe if it's plastic I can use a soldering iron to burn off 8 bumps and leave 8 more, but that doesn't seem like the right way to fix it, or that it would even fit.
I've looked on webistes of HomeDepot, Lowes, Amazon, Ace, and Ferguson Plumbing Supply (Feguson's has NIBCO parts but not this.)
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