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22-11-2020, 07:52 PM
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Bodge up

A bodge-up but one that worked. Our sink tap is one that fixes via a large nut that screws up on the outside (I know there is a different sort of fixing). This one has tended to loosen up from time to time. The securing nut is difficult to get to with the spanner, so never entirely tightened.

The bodge was to clamp a bit of metal (an old drawer runner) to the outside with a jubilee clip and then fix the metal to the back of the sink unit. Solid as a rock now with no twisting around and it should stay that way.

I'm only mentioning this because I'm bursting with joy at having permanently overcome this most serious and annoying problem.

The only trouble was the awkward angle I had to work at. Gone and pulled a muscle in my leg.

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22-11-2020, 08:50 PM
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Re: Bodge up

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I'm bursting with joy
I suspect you may have used the wrong clip. It sounds like you fitted a jubilation clip rather than a jubilee.
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22-11-2020, 09:06 PM
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I only had the silver jubilee clip shown. I might have had it that long.
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22-11-2020, 09:10 PM
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It looks good to me Mart. Nothing like a bit of utilisation...
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23-11-2020, 12:47 AM
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Re: Bodge up

If the bodge was in plain sight it would never do but it's at the back of the sink cupboard behind all the cleaning fluid bottles and stuff. Apart from anyone looking at this thread, who is going to see it?
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23-11-2020, 06:32 AM
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Great solution to a difficult problem Mart, well done.
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23-11-2020, 10:48 AM
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Thanks Barry.
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23-11-2020, 11:41 AM
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Re: Bodge up

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If the bodge was in plain sight it would never do but it's at the back of the sink cupboard behind all the cleaning fluid bottles and stuff. Apart from anyone looking at this thread, who is going to see it?
I wasn't being sarcastic mart.....
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I wasn't being sarcastic mart.....
No worries. It wasn't taken as such.
 

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