Re: Replacing Water *** Tap

"M" <_@xxxxx> wrote in message news:1135978668.23459.0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> With all the snow and rain I checked the tap on my water ***, the tap
> "opened" easily but no water, not one drop. It maybe that some of the
water
> in the *** has frozen although I'm thinking the mechanism of the tap has
> failed.

If it is the whiteish plastic as fitted to the fruit juice barrels, the
chances are that it is fractured in the frost. I have had two of mine go
from that problem.
>
> I will check again tomorrow . I have a spare tap but what is the standard
> procedure/tool to get the nut fitted on to the tap inside the *** ? The
> water *** is too tall to reach into .
>
> Any tips ?

If the barrel is free and you can lay it down, (Mine are not, I have 5
linked together across the back of the garage) then lay a blanket/plastic
*** into the barrel, get her indoors out of doors to hold a wrench/spanner
in the tap whilst you crawl inside and hold the nut with a spanner/another
wrench/footprints/stillsons or whatever you have. If you can get her indoors
into the barrel, no joke please, then you can turn the tap outside :-))

and when you have finished, you can come and do mine :-))

Mike


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