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Leaking bath mixer tap cartridge

  • 02-06-2014 9:20pm
    #1
    macwal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 148 ✭✭


    Have a bath mixer tap that is leaking out the top of the cartridge insert. Unfortunately I can't attach the photo I took of it, but anyone who has taken one of these cartridges apart before should know what I'm taking about.

    The square metal part at the top (which the lever attaches to), goes up through a nylon top piece of the main body. The other side of the square metal part (enclosed within the nylon top piece) has a ball shape, which is packed against a soft material shaped like a "socket", thus forming a "ball-and-socket" seal when the lever is moved around to open the mixer inlets. It's this soft material that has broken down in my mixer.

    Does anyone know what this material is, and where I can get it? It has a consistency like blue-tack when pressed, but instead of stretching when pulled, it breaks apart. It needs to form a watertight seal between the nylon of the body top-piece, and the metal ball that is part of the inner lever mechanism.


Comments

  • #2
    corkgsxr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭corkgsxr


    I dont think it can be replaced like that. You change the cartridge itself as a piece


  • #3
    Sleeper12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,157 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    corkgsxr wrote: »
    I dont think it can be replaced like that. You change the cartridge itself as a piece

    Yes a new cartridge.


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