Hi all, I'm looking to use a couple of vintage taps that I bought a while back. They're a bit patina'd, but the motion is in good shape. I'd like to replace all the seals. Does anyone have a source for seals, or if not, a service that refurbs? I'm not familiar with their actual tap type names, but two are the type with a lever that comes off the side of the spout, and the other has a yoke type of handle, where there is a Y that goes over the top of the faucet and connects to a pin that runs horizontally through the body of the tap. Thanks for any info. I have modern backups, but I'd love to get these sorted out. I have a photo, but I couldn't figure out how to upload it... Robo.
Good luck with those! Unfortunately old faucets look great but are not used anymore and for good reason. The shanks are also not used though the thread looks like standard 7/8". All standard faucets can be rebuilt, easily. But those are not standard. Standard faucets have been in use for decades. If you can't get a beer nut and a tailpiece on to the end of the shank you can't get beer into it. That's a problem. See if a beer nut threads onto it before you kill yourself fixing a faucet. Biggest problem will probably be the faucet to shank connection. If you can work those apart for cleaning great. Also the manufacturer is stamped on at least one shank but the photo doesn't show the complete name. Help us out. Economy from Newark? A word of advice here, getting beer out of a keg and into your glass is not a really hard thing to do right BUT don't fool yourself into thinking because you can do basic homeowner plumbing you'll be able to sort this out. You won't. Unless you already know a good bit about draft beer. Also as you research, you have a faucet, not a tap. A tap goes into a keg a faucet is, well, a faucet. Commonly interchanged but they are in fact different. And you have a faucet. Cheers.
