Packard V8
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I've done an extensive internet search and searched the forum here and haven't found an answer to this conundrum.
Remodeling a 150-year-old farmhouse and finding a problem with the old brass lavatory faucets. They have a straight 1/2" NST dual purpose bottom thread. The 14 TPI long threaded portion is used to clamp an iron spacer to the basin by a brass hex nut. Missing three of the four hex clamping nuts.
The supply connections were missing when we got the basin, but it appears it would have been a copper line with a steeply tapered rubber cone and a brass compression nut. Does all the above sound logical?
Now here's the problem. The current production 1/2" brass compression nuts I have are a very loose fit on two of the faucets and won't even hold on the other two, which are for some reason a few thou smaller diameter.
All suggestions and links to suppliers of antique faucet parts appreciated.
jack vines
Remodeling a 150-year-old farmhouse and finding a problem with the old brass lavatory faucets. They have a straight 1/2" NST dual purpose bottom thread. The 14 TPI long threaded portion is used to clamp an iron spacer to the basin by a brass hex nut. Missing three of the four hex clamping nuts.
The supply connections were missing when we got the basin, but it appears it would have been a copper line with a steeply tapered rubber cone and a brass compression nut. Does all the above sound logical?
Now here's the problem. The current production 1/2" brass compression nuts I have are a very loose fit on two of the faucets and won't even hold on the other two, which are for some reason a few thou smaller diameter.
All suggestions and links to suppliers of antique faucet parts appreciated.
jack vines