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Originally posted by johnfowles:
My bête noire concerns the standard American (American Standard) method for allowing water to flow from a toilet tank into the bowl. Specifically, and this is a problem that one year ago I was seeking guidance about from plumbing guru plumguru2/ Doug Kirk in California, the means by which the water flow is shut off when the tank has refilled.All he could do was ask me to tell him the make and model number.
It is 40 plus years since I graduated with a degree in engineering and have never seen anything more pathetic than the "design" of the common valve used in tanks here/QB]
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As my trade and profession is being smeared I'll jump in and say, poppycock or not, many manufacturers have specific flappers for specific models of water closets (toilets). And even at that, not all WC's even use a flapper.
If anyone should be stabbed through the heart it is the mechanical engineers who design some of these systems.
Now I'm not suggesting that with a littlle cooperation they couldn't cut down on the coinfusion but John, as a former engineer you must realize that some items are proprietary and as such require the CORRECT item and not some generic wannabe.
If you want to be offended because I couldn't give you a one sentence response, be offended at the mechanical engineer who at the direction of management, designed a propritery item so no else could or would want to copy it.
You think I want to carry 30 different: flapper; discs; seals; and washers, just to stop water flowing out of a tank? Not hardly. But I do need to get answers to my questions to get the correct one.
One last warning. If you're using a chemical ('1000 Flushes' and the like) in the tank to try to keep the bowl clean, it will dramatically decrease the life of any rubber, vinyl or silicone components .... which includes the FLAPPER!