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willfinch36

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Deck shower hose fitting
« on: June 24 2016, 11:26 »
I'm after the fitting which goes from the mixer tap to the hose.

Any ideas? I went to my local plumbing shop but the fitting leaked so gave up on that.

Thanks.



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Re: Deck shower hose fitting
« Reply #1 on: June 24 2016, 11:35 »
Penguin engineering via goggle should get a result.

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Re: Deck shower hose fitting
« Reply #2 on: June 24 2016, 13:15 »
From the second photo it seems to me there is a gasket missing on the shower hose side - if the thread is OK then there should not be any leak.
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Re: Deck shower hose fitting
« Reply #3 on: June 24 2016, 14:34 »
I'm with Lyra on this.

From pic no 2 you are missing the rubber/neoprene sealing washer in the female side of the connection.
Looks like a pretty standard size available at any plumbers merchant and many good DIY stores.

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Re: Deck shower hose fitting
« Reply #4 on: June 24 2016, 16:20 »
Yes, it's a standard ½" BSP flat rubber washer as supplied with all shower hoses. http://r.ebay.com/tapOFI

However, the profile of the male fitting doesn't look ideal; I would expect a flatter mating surface. In this case a fibre washer may be better, or worse!
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Re: Deck shower hose fitting
« Reply #5 on: June 27 2016, 22:29 »
Thanks for the replies, Unfortnately its not as simple as a washer, as for some reason I had previously bought the wrong size hose and the adapter had been leaking.

So basically I need a hose the same size as the blue/red one. Can you point me in the first direction?


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Re: Deck shower hose fitting
« Reply #6 on: June 28 2016, 08:19 »
Any of the DIY shops (like home depot or so) have this stuff. Get adapter from 1/2" to 3/4" and use lots of teflon tape fitting the stuff together. Maybe take the things on the photo to a plumbing supply and tell what you need. Just replaced mixer and shower last year. Quite a job to crawl back and forth in the boat, we had 35°C when I did that.
Made extra long shower hose so can rinse out spillings in the cockpit, and picked the best possible quality so hopefully replacement is not necessary soon.

If plumbers would just change to metrical system the world would be a better one.
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Re: Deck shower hose fitting
« Reply #7 on: June 28 2016, 10:48 »
Thanks for the replies, Unfortnately its not as simple as a washer ...
Perhaps if you had posted the correct picture it would have helped :)

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Re: Deck shower hose fitting
« Reply #8 on: June 28 2016, 12:02 »
So basically I need a hose the same size as the blue/red one. Can you point me in the first direction?



Those are called tap tails and normally come included with the taps. You can get them separately though: http://www.toolstation.com/shop/p54750?table=no (click catalogue page for other sizes/models).

I too wish the world was all metric.
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