Japan Faucets
Jul 7, 2020, 12:05 am
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The ignominy of being unable to solve such a trivial problem on my own is preventing me from following the manifestly sensible solution which you are proposing.
Jul 7, 2020, 12:31 am
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You should not an ISO thread on a domestic water fixture
ISO = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_metric_screw_thread
GHT == https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_hose
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Jul 7, 2020, 7:00 am
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Thread gauge should help, but at small sizes can be hard to interpret
You should not an ISO thread on a domestic water fixture
ISO = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_metric_screw_thread
GHT == https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_hose
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You should not an ISO thread on a domestic water fixture
ISO = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_metric_screw_thread
GHT == https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_hose
Disclaimer
Mechanical Engineer working ~40 years in process plants with piping, pumps, tanks & pressure vessels
Jul 7, 2020, 7:28 pm
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Jul 7, 2020, 9:14 pm
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Jul 7, 2020, 9:57 pm
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Here it is. This is the adapter that was screwed into the faucet so the faucet has a corresponding female thread. As best I can tell this is a W19山24 thread (a Japanese spec with 19 being diameter in mm and 24 being the thread count in TPI.) As far as I can tell the only part still on the market with a male thread of this type is an esoteric Toto hose used to connect washing machines and some discontinued shower heads.
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Jul 8, 2020, 1:04 am
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Some people are good with DIY, but not me. Took me an hour to replace bike tires the other day.
Jul 8, 2020, 2:23 am
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Jul 8, 2020, 4:41 am
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Unless you're ordering the part online, just take it into your local store and test it with whatever parts you can find. I gave up on finding some bolts to fix something and just brought one into the store to test them, and they turned out to be a 旧JIS [old JIS] size which are different from both international and modern JIS standards.
Alternatively, now that you know the specifications, maybe find an adapter online that matches (like one of these)?
Alternatively, now that you know the specifications, maybe find an adapter online that matches (like one of these)?
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Jul 8, 2020, 6:09 am
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Unless you're ordering the part online, just take it into your local store and test it with whatever parts you can find. I gave up on finding some bolts to fix something and just brought one into the store to test them, and they turned out to be a 旧JIS [old JIS] size which are different from both international and modern JIS standards.
Alternatively, now that you know the specifications, maybe find an adapter online that matches (like one of these)?
Alternatively, now that you know the specifications, maybe find an adapter online that matches (like one of these)?
Jul 8, 2020, 8:29 pm
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Point is, DIY can be more often unexpectedly hard than unexpectedly easy, in my case almost always expectedly hard (and when it’s real hard, I believe in paying someone).
Ok, back to the faucet.
Jul 8, 2020, 8:59 pm
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I doubt you suck. I think my first tire change was close to an hour also. Everyone thinks that getting from my point A to point B is a single step. IME, it's always a thousand steps and a million mis-steps. Almost everything that humans accomplish is by gaining experience through a process of trial and error. (I'm still trying to perfect my ability to make toast.) And BTW.... I generally do pay people to do the work if I think it will save time. I'm just not very good or sensible about giving up once I've started to do something on my own.
Jul 20, 2020, 4:01 am
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Plumber coming in the morning to replace the faucets. I'll report back. (Although I have to say with other FTers struggling with travel issues, a faucet replacement seems pretty trivial.)
Jul 20, 2020, 4:05 am
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Jul 21, 2020, 5:45 pm
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Faucet replacement........hope they brought the JIS/RC threaded replacement kits with them.