Possibly a good tip for nightmate toilet jobs

[WaterTight]

Specifically the ones where they leak between pan and cistern despite your best plumbers-mate-silicone-or-variety-of-doughnut efforts.

Take an inch and a quarter solvent elbow and glue a little bit of pipe into one end. Wrap that with ptfe and push it in the end of the syphon/drop valve thread. It directs the water straight into pan rather than it's natural route of downwards and then inwards.

Might not always fit/work but worked for me today.

 

[rocketmanbkk]

Specifically the ones where they leak between pan and cistern despite your best plumbers-mate-silicone-or-variety-of-doughnut efforts.

Take an inch and a quarter solvent elbow and glue a little bit of pipe into one end. Wrap that with ptfe and push it in the end of the syphon/drop valve thread. It directs the water straight into pan rather than it's natural route of downwards and then inwards.

Might not always fit/work but worked for me today.

Can you provide a drawing?

 

[Koogatubac]

We need colourful pictures to understand

 

[WaterTight]

Thread of syphon is 1.5". So a 1.5" bit of pipe and/or a 1.5" fitting will fit inside it. So if you put an elbow inside it it basically is as if the syphon's threaded tail is elbow shaped which you can use to direct water when flushed. Less chance of it whoosing up and over/around the doughnut.

 

[WaterTight]

I mean 1.25" inch bit of pipe. Just normal waste pipe.

 

[WaterTight]

The bit of pipe in the elbow just acts as a place to wrap ptfe to act as a sort of washer and also keep it inside syphon tail.

 

[rocketmanbkk]

I'm still intrigued & interested. Thx.

 

[WaterTight]

do you get what i mean? might not be explaining right.

stick one of these

http://www.plumbingworld.co.uk/onlinestore/mupvc_90.jpg

inside the thread of one of these

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angle elbow towards you and carry on as normal

 

[WaterTight]

may need to cut tail of syphon shorter, i had to

 

[rocketmanbkk]

Yeah, I thnk I get it. But if you put the elbow on the siphon thread, then the elbow sticks out the bottom? This the points to the front of the toilet? So the water leaves the siphon at a lower point and is directed? Sounds ok if it's when I think. Thx