Monobloc: neat idea given the Ozzy Osbourne treatment

[ToughButterCup]

Whassis about then eh?

I mean just how much mind altering  substance do you have to take to do this to an innocent tap connection ,  eh?

Or: how to make the easy super, unecessarily hard.

 

The monbloc tap , two innocent little holes...

 

Choogle up to Screweez, and talk to the lass with the dry hacking cough and a sweat on ... (not jokin') :

Could I have one of your finest PUSH-FIT FLEXIBLE MONOBLOC TAP CONNECTORS 15MM X M10MM please miss ..... 

(Oops, notice  she's pregnant and has a highly polished sparkler on her ring finger ?)

 

And she gives me this ....

 

So, let me get this right.

They give you one connector that's easy to tighten (left hand one because it sticks out of the bottom of the monobloc) and one which needs me to get a pair of tweezers to nudge the friggin' thing tight.

 

Why FFS make the simple hard?

 

Why Buildhub, why, and why me ?  And don't tell me it's  "Because yer 'ere lad"

 

Please tell me I have missed the obvious. I'd be so pleased if that was the case. Please. Please.

[Declan52]

They only go hand tight so just twist them to they stop.

[ProDave]

The flexi's that came with my basin tap don't even have a nut on them, the instructions say "finger tight" and they are not leaking.

 

So don't over tighten them.

 

Perhaps the idea is when you fit the first, short one, there is just enough room to get get a bent spanner in there to tighten it, then fit the second longer one.  But AGREED it would be so much easier to either give you two long ones, or don't recess the bloody things up there in the first place.

 

I am more curious how you clamp the tap into it's hole?  There seems to be no normal tapped hole for a fixing stud?

[ToughButterCup]

1 hour ago, Declan52 said:

They only go hand tight so just twist them to they stop.

My hand tight or yours....?

 

And " I mean that most sincerely folks "

?

[Declan52]

36 minutes ago, ToughButterCup said:

My hand tight or yours....?

 

And " I mean that most sincerely folks "

?

Yours,mine,tomato tomatoe . Just twist till it stops. 

[ToughButterCup]

11 minutes ago, Declan52 said:

.... Just twist till it stops. 

 

Think I'll stick mate......

[wozza]

Hand tight only, anymore than hand tight and you will compress the o ring too much and it will be squashed / forced out allowing water to leak.

[ToughButterCup]

2 hours ago, wozza said:

Hand tight only, anymore than hand tight and you will compress the o ring too much and it will be squashed / forced out allowing water to leak.

 

Thanks. Ya learn summat here, every day .....