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Post by wetfinger on Mar 22, 2021 21:14:33 GMT
They are so finiky to repair, had another one tonight on a closed back toilet, constantly filling. diaphram split to fuck so swapped it and turned the water back on, ran upstairs and its still not shutting off, fiddled around but still not shutting off. Had a spare one in my van so robbed the complete arm assembly off it and tried that, same shit so back off with the water, tried to unscrew the valve from its stem but I can't get a turn on it and its tight in the cistern corner, it now gone 7pm and I'm thinking I'm going to have to drag this whole bastard bog out to swap the thing for a viva or fluidmaster then I went looking in my van again and found a second siamp valve exactly the same so I used the arm off that and it worked! two indentical parts but only one worked.
I am aware of the small clear washer that also needs to be swapped or turned over hence replacing the whole arm assembly.
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Post by crowsfoot on Mar 22, 2021 21:49:15 GMT
I see that you're onto the dodge with the older type of Siamp's where you can screw out the whole top part whilst the bottom is still in the cistern. I agree, they're a very flimsy finger and thumb type of valve, it'll be a good job when we have to send them back to the EU and fit the good old British Portsmouth ball valves in there place!
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Post by rocketmanbkk on Mar 23, 2021 2:31:24 GMT
I don’t like them. Unfortunately for the customers they have to pay if the job takes longer or there’s more work involved
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Post by dickpuller on Mar 23, 2021 6:29:09 GMT
A lot of these equilibrium inlet valves are flimsy shite. So much so, that I’d now just recommend a replacement, than re-Washer them. The Ideal Standard ones are OK, but you need to replace both washers.
They work on the principle that there’s equal presser either side of the diaphragm, before it’ll shut off. So there often two washers to replace.
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Post by tomplum on Mar 23, 2021 13:46:43 GMT
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