1936-08-21 — Page 2

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1986.

Drip. Drip. Drip

What's more maddening than a leaking tap?

Read how to

LEAKING tap

like a guilty

science.

Its

is

con-

voice

oppresses you while you are in the house, the thought of the waste of water torments the mind while you are away.

In nine cases out of ten 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 will right Itself. A leaking tap al- ways gets worse. The greatest wear on washers is caused by screwing taps too tightly. They should niwaya be screwed gently.

K

are

cure it

"When you have unicrewed 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 addling about with the top. And here you must know how a tap works.

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

ITCHEN tops go wrong will see that when the tap is screwed more often than others down on the opening no water ean because they

more well through and out at the spout constantly used. Most kitchen taps unless the washer is leaking,

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 on a similar system, and I am going break the washer or

to tell you how to mend there.

по

necount try pulling to plecca

gland plug tops or spring tops.

On jumper.

You can tell at once, what sort of

tap you have by its appearance. If

the tap which you are troubled with

☆

break the

ET'S set to work to mend

the top. With an adjust- able

spanner

unscrew cap. Do not confuse the

cap

has no resemblance to the one in the the 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- up with low the handle, the tap is the second. sometimes covered chromium shields, which unscrew

furc

easily.

IRST you must notice

F whether it is a hot top

or a cold tap that is de

fective, for the treatment varies with the water system,

supplied from

Cold taps are my, especially in

the main water

towns. This

means that the cold

water does not go into a tank, na the

hot water does, but

comes straight

from the main in the street.

Somewhere in your house there will be a stop cock, that is to say,

Lap without n spout, which when

You

must

screwed down, cuts off the supply of cold water to your house, And this and screw it down. It is fairly obvious position generally in t where the water pipes enter your Sometimes it is in a hole in the ground and is worked with a key, When you have turned off the water, turn on the leaking tap full until there is no water left in the pipes.

house.

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

"A dripping tap is a toyment to

Any one."

Housewives-do you know

1. What to do with a burned saucepan?

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

1.

4.

some variations.

How can you ensure that sliced apples and bananas for a frult

salad will not turn brown?

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

it at home, what do you do?

Answers:

A

1.. Boil salt and water in it, then rub the burned spota with a dish-

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

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

3.

As soon as you have peeled and allced the fruit, sprinkle the slice 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 inoderately alig,

of the tap that is to my, to the left.

Test it gently and see.

When you have unscrewed

you

this the

will have in your hand handle of the top and an object at the end of it (see illustration on the left)

washer, which contains the which is held on by a little nut or possibly, a screw of pliers and you ow. Undo the nut or Ecrew with a pair of will find the

he washer probably per-

ished or spilt or torn away.

Remove this and substitute a new washer. Washers are made in two sizes, in. and 14in. for large or small taps. Washers

Cost

a penny each from any Ironmonger.

G

TAP:

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

the

Tis possible, if

tnp

has been

screwed down

that the whole

A. Stem.

B. Gland Ring,

C. Cap Washer.

D. Jumper.

E. Washer.

F. Jumper Nut.

G. Spindle.

H. Cap.

or olly, coarse-looking

If your tap is giving trouble this twist will be in an emaclated state. Pick it all out, with a piece of wire or a bradawl.

OU can buy, special twist for the ginnds, of taps or too hard.

you can make your own by jumper has broken; for in soaking coarse string, or even that stance, the pin may have thread people use for darning, in snapped which holds

the motor grease, lard, or tallow. washer, and the nut or screw will have disappeared down the pipe with the water.

A

New jumper, obtainable at an

should cost about sixpence.

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

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

Do not pack the cavity too tightly.

John Betjeman

• Cut this article out.

socket of the spindle while It will be useful for re- you are screwing on the can again.

Rub some soup on the end of the jump which enters the spindle and it will keep in position. Do not forget when you, screw on the cap to put back the leather cap washer.

W

water

HEN you want to repair

the

ference if YOUR tap starts dripping.

Intestinal Troubles In

Hot Weather,

and

Food and drinks became so rapidly tainted that stomach and intestinal troubles are to be expected in sum- mer. In any case, the heat lowers washer of a hot the vitality, reduces appetite and top the procedure interferes with the digestion so that with the tap itself is the precautions are necessary. In order some as I have described to be if you must keep stomach. only you must remember to bowels clear and clean. The occa- Use a composition washer. sional dose of Pinkettes will

do this But the first step, that offer you pleasantly and naturally. turning off the water at the Pinkettes remove any harmful sub- stopcock, is different.

stances caten before they have time You will probably find the stop-to do harm. As a general all round health-safeguard during the hotter cock of the hot water system is put months you cannot use

anything

in front of the tank, so that you have Aner than Pinkettes. All chemists to tum the hot water taps full on

and empty the tank before you can can supply you.

set to work to repair the washer.

ASHERS

១៥០ not the

only things which can go Sometimes wrong in a top.

whenever you turn on the water i wells up under the handle, and 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 empty the hot water tank or hunt aboui for a stopcock. Just turn off the tap and follow me.

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

Unscrow this as far as it will go.

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HERE are two Ways of treating the announcement that motor-car radio is certain to leap into

popularity,

One is the purely frivolous, as used by your philosopher-" Is this Progress? What is Progress? Does it betray a mass-disinclination- for-thiought neurosis as evidenced by the distraction-demand?"

The other is the purely scientific, as used by your Showman who observes facts and deduces there. from, as follows:-

Goompy Again WELL, It was in my Abbot's Snort- ing days when my daughter Goompy used to help me in smithy by noodging tio-orses when I wanted 'em to cha-ango legs while I was storing 'cm. And champion noodger ahe were. Honest, she really was.

One day one of they Lunon feliers left his car outside smithy with radia turned on, and Goompy she were in a proper ma-aze. "Eh wirro

virt!" sho said. "Eh, ulla me, lul decl Feyther, is it the weyther, or be I at the end of my teyther? What makes thunt voice?"

Please Read On WELL, the feller happens along just

then, and tells Goompy t nobbut ra-a-n-adio.

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(All My Life (Laughing Irish Eyes)'

LESLIE HUTCHINSON.

(Sweet Malody of Night. (Give us this Night) (I Mean. to Say I Love You, (Give us this Night

JAN KIÉPURA.

TSANG

he

"Tha girt innwleycrummeti" gigla Makin' fun of a simple to loike Ot Tis thra ventriloquisfer! And with that Goompy gave him a playful woodge in the ribs, Dawn e went folke n wabbling puddock-com- pletely unconscious, I nɛsure you. But the volee went on.

And Ocompy laughed, and laughed. and laughed. "Feyther!" she gasped. "He were right! is rainin-n-dio! We maum buy yin!"

And no us did, and stook it in wheel- barrer.

This proves; you see, that demonstra- tion assista, sules.

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An expert prophesies a ilme "when baldness will he quite unknown, and men will keep their hair until the end of their lives." Meanwhile

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or maybe twenty-jour;

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I loved him, I fored him, and who

shall dere

To blame me for loving his handsoine

hair!

His hair has now been banished Dy Time's relentless touch!

But I don't incarn the vanished.,

I love him just as much:

I love him, Plave him, and who shall

cult

Mc foolish for loving my Billiard Ball!

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Tel. 26031,

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ACROSS

32

I A humorist hildes a row while going through shallow water.

5 More than disilke.

8 You are looking at to-day's,

What a singer might, do if up-

sery

is, and sà. is an

10 measure.

11

car-

12 For a smoker it's all right be-

tween a couple of exclamations. 14 About a

a game of golf,

10 Ruin an entrance for resort. 17 No enthusiastic description of

the spiritualist.

18 Useful for. the conjuror and

recognizable in levees.

19 With a reddish coating, I and many more are suitable for the coustry,

23 Barbarian.

26 They are born in the country. Gracious, Is it much better than C3?

27

28 A sor

sorter appears to have re course to a holiday spat.

29 The road-hog doesn't except when he encounters such roads, 30 Disregard.

31 My neighbour?

32 More than usually.

33. Call upon to appear.

34 Rather vulgar commotion

(Hyphen 4 and 2).

DOWN

1 Dorset town tells you what to

do with clothes.

2 Slough?

3 Material to keep out the wel.

4 Pour oil on the waters.

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5 Overthrows and what they may

have caused at cricket. Rubbing out

7 Might be altered after it has

been.

13 Possibly killingl

13 The time-server

eventunity.

obtains

it

19 The white variety are mentioned

very early next month,

120 Word for word.

21 Bar that opens with a confession

of inability or, the opposite.

| 22

Form of ragtime.

#3 Not a flattering report (Two

words 4 and 3).

[24 Rough to be always inside in

such dry weather.

25 Blurt out (Two words 3 and 4).

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