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    Default Flik Mixers lose

    OK, after 4 years of living in my new place, my flik mixer has decided to undo itself. I installed a granite benchtop and undermount sinkin my parents place and also a flik mixer but I can never get it tight enough and it come loose a few months later. Is there a special tool to tighten them up as there is very little space to work in.

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    tube spanner works best.
    If you dont play it, it's not an instrument!

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    go to bunnies and in the plumbing dept you will find something that looks a bit like a stilson wrench on an extention rod .....its designed to get into tight spots and do up / undo the nut your talking about ....specially if a tube spanner wont go there ...oh and they are about $45-50 .....

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    Quote Originally Posted by manoftalent View Post
    go to bunnies and in the plumbing dept you will find something that looks a bit like a stilson wrench on an extention rod .....its designed to get into tight spots and do up / undo the nut your talking about ....specially if a tube spanner wont go there ...oh and they are about $45-50 .....
    Called a basin wrench.

    Mick
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    tomorrow you will have paid for it and not have it."

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    A basin wrench you will more than likely find to be a pain, especially if its a double bowl sink. As Bricks said a tube spanner or even a deep socket, they are typically 11mm or 13mm.
    Plumbers were around long before Jesus was a carpenter

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    Maybe a spring washer or some loctite as well if it is coming undone.

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    I would'nt use loctite because then you'l really have trouble getting it undone should you want to. Instead wrap one or two times with thread tape- just enough to make it bind up a bit more.
    If you dont play it, it's not an instrument!

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    Thanks for your input guys. I'll see if I can get a tube socket, much better cost effective sollution. And yeah, both sinks are double bowled with very little room between. I can get a regular spanner on my parents tap but just lacking that last nip to get it real tight. I'll post back soon on how I go.

    Cheer

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