As Jason says just unscrews not usually much more than finger tight.

Whole kit less than a tenner from Wickes, Screwfix, B&Q etc.

John

Just change the chain? the triangle bit pulls out sideways

As a plumbing aside these are now easy to get on ebay

Had one for a couple of years now and they are lifesavers when you have multiple women flushing alsorts down the drains, which always seem to block at 0830 on a saturday or sunday morning

Edited By Ady1 on 11/03/2021 10:04:38

And even less well with push fit fittings on pipes running into a very shallow roofspace on a single story extension that has later had a low pitch tiled roof built on top!

Please don't ask how I know as you do not want to see a grown man cry at the memory!

Lol been there done that ( almost)

Of course most taps sold today do not have washers but a ceramic disc valve. If it starts to drip you simply replace the cartridge along with a few O-rings

John

Even the professionals don't always have it easy.

A friend who is, recounted to me once trying to replace a customer's toilet cistern. His normal, local but major-chain outlet could not oblige – "We don't stock that type, I'm afraid".

Pete – "What? There must be thousands of them around Yeovil! "

Builders'-Merchant bloke – "I know that, you know that; but Head Office doesn't and says we have to sell those ones" – pointing to a high shelf laden with dusty, cobwebby cisterns.

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Don't remind me, Dave…

My society used to rent a delightfully ramshackle workshop that had no water supply or drainage (so plastic containers, and luxuriant brambles); but did have a 3-phase supply.

One evening I switched on a bench-drill – flash! bang! 3ph fuse blown.

By the time the two of us present had replaced the fuse, we'd re-ground a damaged screwdriver on a1ph grinder so we could mend the faulty step-ladder so we could reach the steel conduit so trace and replace the faulty wire… then we locked up and went to the pub.

Without drilling the hole.

Tap with grooved seat if of the washered type you need the monument tap seat cutter, still available ! For the ceramic valve 1/4 turn type By the time you have found the right insert they will have lauched the life boat , just buy a new tap. Noel.

Sometimes, you do wonder in which direction progress is taking us?

Years ago, a ferrule carrying an E clip on my wife's car failed. The repair, according to local dealer, was a complete new throttle cable assembly. ("Fits all models, sir" )

It went to the breakers yard with a bolt drilled through, and some steel banding bent to a suitable shape.

Bigger profits seems to be the usual objective.

But I am a grumpy frugal old man

Howard

Dave, I have been known to cut a diaphram from a thick piece of polythene, and monument also do a small seat cutter for brass ball valves, Noel.

Not surprising. Lots of composites become brittle with age..

Looks like you are in the market for a new overflow, at minimum, or complete drain outlet assembly.

Search Screwfix, Toolstation, B&Q, Homebase, Plumb Centre etc

If you are lucky, you may find fittings that are compatible with e flexible pipe that is in situ.

Don't kick the cat!

Howard

PS  It might be worth lubing the threads with Vaseline before installing nto guard against a repeat in a few years time?

Edited By Howard Lewis on 13/03/2021 11:59:26

When I did the shower waste pipe the bumph sheet said to only use neutral setting silicone, as the normal smelly stuff causes plastic to go brittle. The plumber's merchant reckoned this was rubbish, and he didn't sell the neutral stuff, so I rang the manufacturers of the fitting. They were most insistent, and said they would be having a word with the merchant. The downside of the neutral stuff is it takes longer to set, but who's in a hurry.