tap reseating tool

Which is the best priced/value for money tap reseating tool. And will i need one for metric and one for imperial?

You may consider it strange but in 35 years I have never needed to reseat a tap.

Really? I just figured it's just one of them jobs that 'never hurts' to do. Though i could do with not spending my brass on one if it's not needed.

your right when you say it 'never hurts to do'
sometimes you can get a rough edge on a tap seat, a re-seating tool will buff the edge away.

i use a cheap one, cost about £7 i think. does the job

sometimes when your changing a tap washer, the customer is standing watching you, using a re-seating tool, even if it's not needed, makes them feel like there getting the job done better.

bull baffles brains as they say.

Originally Posted by mountainman

You may consider it strange but in 35 years I have never needed to reseat a tap.

Neither have i!
I once had a go with one just to see how it worked (on an old tap from the scrap pile) out of curiosity because a guy who worked with me had it and i'd never even seen one.
Use domed washers and you will never ever need one.

Originally Posted by tamz

Neither have i!
I once had a go with one just to see how it worked (on an old tap from the scrap pile) out of curiosity because a guy who worked with me had it and i'd never even seen one.
Use domed washers and you will never ever need one.

Am amazed that after years, you guys are virgin tap reseaters!
The old taps usually on mains supply, sometimes would have been impossible to stop dripping without grinding the seating down. One light rub with the seating tool & when you looked at the seating with a light, you would see nice gleaming brass, with a lump missing or a line in it, like a hacksaw cut.
I wouldn't recommend reseating taps unless needed. The modern taps have a well finished seating & modern taps rarely last long anyhow!

I've a re-seating tool in the garage but never used it. Might re-washer the bathroom taps after all this talk.




Nah, I'm gonna have a beer instead!

I've got a cracking reseating tool that you use in a drill. The cutting edges will only cut until the seat is flat. Flip knows how it works but it does and because it fits a drill it only takes a few secs. I used to have a couple of old school reseating tools but I sold them on e-blag when I got the new one. I picked it up at interbuild a good few years ago and not seen one since.

I got a great reseating tool......its called a new washer

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Originally Posted by Mike Jackson

I've got a cracking reseating tool that you use in a drill. The cutting edges will only cut until the seat is flat. Flip knows how it works but it does and because it fits a drill it only takes a few secs. I used to have a couple of old school reseating tools but I sold them on e-blag when I got the new one. I picked it up at interbuild a good few years ago and not seen one since.

"Hydroseal" is one that fits a cordless drill. Australian made, but don't know if easily available.

I have one of the expensive kits and use it only when I need to or if I feel the need to impress.

A lot of the time with gravity systems you have to work live as you don't want to be snapping gate valves off for the sake of a tap washer.

I've never needed to reseat a tap as I said on "A strange dripping tap problem" thread.

Has anyone come across those "open vent taps"?

Good idea, but not good for the plumber who's never seen them.

Originally Posted by Best

"Hydroseal" is one that fits a cordless drill. Australian made, but don't know if easily available.

That's exactly the one I've got. Must have been someone importing them. We could get CQuigley to smuggle a load back when he come back.

You have never reseated a tap?????????
I'm the unluckiest umber in Glasgow, when we worked on cyclic maintenance and got a job line to washer the 6 taps I always found 4-5 of them needed reseated and repacked ( obviously 5 minutes for a washer and 16 minutes for washer/pack/reseat had nothing to do with it) the bonus guy would only pay the codes to the guys who had a reseating tool haha, those were the days, TBH I tended to reseat them all just to clean it up a bit

I've got a good one, used it once and now mainly fit tap reviver kits as I get better paid for them and they are so simple to fit.