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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1986.

Drip Drip. Drip

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What's more maddening than a leaking tap? Read how to

tap

is

LEAKING like a guilty con- Its voice science, oppresses you while you are in the house, the thought of the waste of water torments the mind while you are away.

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In nine cases out of teh the trouble is that the washer has gone, and the water continues to drip out of the tap when the handle is screwed right down.

It is no use screwing the tap down as far as it will go and thinking it A leaking top al- will right itself.

The greatest wear on washers is caused by screwing taps too tightly. They should always

ways gets worse,

I screwed gently.

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more often

thin

cure

it

"When you havn unscrewed the

cap you will have the handle and an object which contains the washer,

held on by a nut or screw."

Now you can start Oddling about with the fap. And here you must know how a tap works,

The

illustration makes it far clear than any words of mine. You

JTCHEN taps go wrong will see that when the tap is nerowed others down on the opening no water can because they are more well through and out at the spout constantly used. Most kitchen laps unless the washer is leakirig.

If you screw down the washer too are what are 'called in the plumbing world "plain bibcocks." They work hard on the opening, you may either washer or break the on a similar system, and I

am going

break the

to tell you how to mend these. On Jumper.

account try pulling to pleces

gland plug tops or spring tops.

You can tell at once what sort of tap you have by Its appearance. 1

the tap which you are

troubled

with

has no resemblance to the one in the the

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ET'S set to work to mend the tap. With an adjust- Able spanner Unscrew

Do not confuse the cap.

cap

Illustration, do not try to mend it; with the gland ring. The gland send for a plumber. Plain bibcocks ring is the first screwable thing be- with low the handle, the tap is the second. Unscrew

are

sometimes covered up chromium shields, which casily.

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IRST you must notice whether it is a hot tap or a cold tap that is dre fective, for the treatment varies with 11 water system.

Cold taps are nidstly supplied from the main water supply, especially in Lowns. This means at the cold water does not go into a tank, as the hot water does, but comes alright from the main in the street.

Sunewhere - In your house

will

there

be a stop cock, that is to say. a tap without a spout, which when screwed down, cuts off the зupply of cold water to your house. You must find this and screw it down. It is generally in a fairly obvious position where the water pipes, enter your house. Sometimes it is in a hole in the ground and is worked with a key. When you have turned off the water. tum on the leaking top full unt there is no water left in the pipes.

The cap will probably unscrew in an opposite direction to the handle

"A doping tap is terment to

asy cat."

Housewives--do you know

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What to do with a burned saucepan?

22. Which is the basis sauce for several other sauces? Suggest

some variations.

3. How can you ensure that sliced apples and bananas for a fruit

salad will not turn brown?

4. You like your table linen only moderately stiff. If you wash

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it at home, what do you do?

Answers:

Boil salt and water in it, then rub the burned spots with a dish-

cloth dipped in salt. Now wash in the usual way.

2. A white sauce. First melt a large nod of butter in your sauce- pay, gradually stir in three-quarters of an' ounce of flour, and add a pint of hot milk or stocle by degrees. Season and stir over the fire until it boils, then allow it to almmer for ten minuter or more. Given the suitable additions, this sance may be turned into a mushroom, parsley, shrimp, egg, anchovy or caper sauce,

J. As soon as you have peeled and sliced the fruit, sprinkle the alice with lemon juice. This will keep them white, and, if sugar is also added, will improve the flavour of the salad. 4. You will find that rice water makes an excellent light starch

for anything which you require only moderately stiff,

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of the tap-that is to say, to the left. Test it gently and see.

this the

When you have unscrewed you will have in your hand handle of the tap and an object at the end of it (see illustration on the which contains the washer, Jeft) which is held on by Httle nut or possibly, a screw. Undo the nut or Acrew with a pair of pliers and you will find the washer probably per- ished or split or torn away.

Remove this and substitute a new washer. Washers are made in two sizes, in, und in, for large or small inps, Washers cost a penny cach from any ironmonger,

string.

TAP:

When you have fixed the washer of the right size phite twist, screw up the nut or screw which keeps it in Lightly

too hard,

place

Tis possible, if

the top has been screwed down whole that the

jumper has broken; for in- the pin may have stance,

holds the suupped which washer, and the nut or screw will have disappeared down the pipe with the water.

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New jumper, obtainable at an iron monger's, should cost about sixpence,

You may now have a cer- tain amount of difficulty in keeping the jumper in the

A. Stem.

B. Gland Ring.

C. Cap Washer.

D. Jumper.

E. Washer.

F. Jumper Nut.

G. Spindle.

H. Cap.

or ally, coarse-looking

If your tap is giving trouble this twist will be in an emneinted state, ·| Pick tall out with a piece of wire or a bradawi,

can buy special twist Y for the glands of taps of you can make your own by soaking enarse string, or even that thread people use for darring. motor grease, lard, or tallow,

In

Now wind it round the spindle of the tap and poke it down with a bradawl or piece of wire that will not bend too casily, until the cavity is full. Screw on the gland ring.

Do not pack the cavity too tightly.

John Betjeman

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socket of the spindle while It will be useful for re- you are screwing on the cap achin

of

Rub some soup on the end

ference if YOUR tan starts

the jump which enters dripping.

the spindle and it will keep

in position. Do not forget, when you screw on the cap to put back the leather cap washer.

water

with

me

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HEN you want to repair the washer of a hot tap the procedure the tap itself is the as I have described, only you must remember to pce a composition washer.

But the first step, that of turning off the water at the stopcock, is different.

You will probably find the stop-| cock of the hot water system is put in front of the tank, so that you have to turn the hot water taps full on and emply the lauk before you can set to work to repair the washer.

ASHERS

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the

W only things which can go

wrong in a tap. Sometimes whenever you turn on the water it wells up under the handic, und seems to be pouring out at all places except! the spout.

This means that the gland packing has worn out. Do not despair, you

will not have to emply the het water tank or hunt about for a stopcock,

Intestinal Troubles In

Hot Weather.

Food and drinks become so rapidly tainted that stomach and intestinal troubles are to be expected in sum- mer. In any case the heat lowers the vitality, reduces appelite und interferes with the digestion so that, recautions are necessary. In order

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You will remember in the begin- ning of this article that I mentioned the gland ring, which is the first screwable Iooking object under the handle of the usual sort tap,

Unscrew this as far as it will go.

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It will reveal a cavity all round the stem of the tap. This cavity should be Alled with either asbestos, gra-

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