You must be looking at a different e-bay to me none of those look like the tap washers that go onto the jumper and sit down onto the seating.

Not seen the old ones for a long time.

110Pc FIBRE WASHER SET Small-Large Seal Buffers Plumbing Packer Tap Bath Ring

Edited By Billy Bean on 06/03/2018 20:34:02

Mr Bean,

This is a tap washer, https://www.screwfix.com/p/arctic-products-pegler-tap-washers-5-pack/2070J?tc=DB2&ds_kid=92700020953273697&ds_rl=1249799&ds_rl=1245250&ds_rl=1249481&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIp4yrp8bY2QIVwbftCh11EQCcEAQYAiABEgIzkvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=CLOjhLfG2NkCFcau7Qod5cALrw

Martin P

Roy

A quick trawl round the net seems to confirm your comments re availability or not as is the case. However I did find some candidates that might be worth a look the first can be found here and comes as a 3/4 in. diameter but center hole not specified. The other possible option might be one of these which they sell in 1/2" and 3/4" sizes and may just require a quick fettle and a hole drilled to size in the middle. Other than that it's like looking for the proverbial 'Rocking Horse Droppings'. .

Cheers

Martin W

Center ball tap washer 1/2"

Or: **LINK**

and the purpose of the jumper is to prevent back flow

Edited By FMES on 07/03/2018 06:21:35

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MichaelG.

Gentlefolk may I put in a word for the Full Stop tap washer kit, available from B&Q & of course all the usual suspects on the internet, take top off tap, remove the upper piece that the old style washers are fitted to, place plastic shouldered bush in outlet hole & press down with special tool (thumb), place plastic upper stem & washer in head of tap, replace, then gently screw down capstan of tap to press all in place. When you have tried one you will not imagine why you didn't invent it yourself, personally I have never had one let me down & at £1.78 got to be worth a try. Three quarter inch ones seem more difficult to acquire but after you have seen one I'm sure it wouldn't be rocket science to make ones own.

Cheers Bob.

The Full Stop Kit is designed primarily to deal with damaged valve seats. Tap washer failure (both H & C) as far as I am concerned seems to be more to do with excessive tightening down by my visitors!!

I am old enough to remember red hot tap washers,then they just seemed to vanish.

I also remember black cold water washers which were shaped like half a ball and were fitted onto a short spigot.

Does anyone else remember these,or am I just doting ?

Those boxes of washers on Ebay look the same as the ones sold in Aldi/Lidi from time to time,quite cheap,and handy to have.

Somewhere I think I have still got a tap seating tool from my younger days. Much like a valve seating tool that used to be used on cars during their periodical 'de-coking' service except the cutting edge was at right angles to the shaft. It was/is an all metal tool with guide carrying the appropriate cutter that screwed into the tap body and with a couple of turns of the handle a fresh seat was cut. I can only assume that we must have been using hard washers as soft ones would have deformed and sealed. It's not a job I have done for donkey's years so whether the body material of taps has improved and doesn't corrode or whether the plastic style washers seal better and stop the seat eroding I don't know.

Another trip down memory lane.

Martin W

Edited By Martin W on 07/03/2018 12:16:49