Like all of us I'm getting older each day , now at almost 75 yrs old things ain't quite like they used to be . A bust shoulder , artificial left knee and damage in three places of my spine has severely curtailed how I go about doing things.
50 yrs ago I'd simply hang on the worktop and reach down into the under sink cupboard and turn off the incoming main water tap .
Well it don't happen anymore .
Now my lass has been struck with severe MS ( last year ) neither of us can turn the darn thing off .
So having had our ceramic disc taps killed when the water board flushed the mains a few weeks ago and kicked up loads of iron sediment etc. , I had to make a device to get the water off so I can change the ceramic cartridges .
The first lash up failed miserably , as it was just a T piece on a broom stick with two prongs to turn the tap handle ..it kept slipping off .
So back to the drawing board , then the mancupboard , got an old scrapped awning rail , a bit of 1&1/4 " OD thick walled alu. tube and a nogging of inch round alu bar from a dismantled project of yesteryears pond netting cover ( bloody mink ate all my big Golden Orfe so no point in having a pond anymore ) .
I drilled right through the 1.25 " tube about 2.75 inches from the end with a 10 mm drill then cut 1 mm to within to the inside of the drilled holes in a very gentle Vee s so it has a kind of keyhole shape to both holes . Filed it up and did a test fit over an external bib taps handle . Yea it works and holds on with no slipping off . Then made an adaptor out of the noggin of alu. to fit the tube to the awning rail , also putting in a sliding T handle . Total length just over a metre
Note well . my wive wishes to inform all of you that I cleaned the sink and plumbing tool after the picture was taken
50 yrs ago I'd simply hang on the worktop and reach down into the under sink cupboard and turn off the incoming main water tap .
Well it don't happen anymore .
Now my lass has been struck with severe MS ( last year ) neither of us can turn the darn thing off .
So having had our ceramic disc taps killed when the water board flushed the mains a few weeks ago and kicked up loads of iron sediment etc. , I had to make a device to get the water off so I can change the ceramic cartridges .
The first lash up failed miserably , as it was just a T piece on a broom stick with two prongs to turn the tap handle ..it kept slipping off .
So back to the drawing board , then the mancupboard , got an old scrapped awning rail , a bit of 1&1/4 " OD thick walled alu. tube and a nogging of inch round alu bar from a dismantled project of yesteryears pond netting cover ( bloody mink ate all my big Golden Orfe so no point in having a pond anymore ) .
I drilled right through the 1.25 " tube about 2.75 inches from the end with a 10 mm drill then cut 1 mm to within to the inside of the drilled holes in a very gentle Vee s so it has a kind of keyhole shape to both holes . Filed it up and did a test fit over an external bib taps handle . Yea it works and holds on with no slipping off . Then made an adaptor out of the noggin of alu. to fit the tube to the awning rail , also putting in a sliding T handle . Total length just over a metre
Note well . my wive wishes to inform all of you that I cleaned the sink and plumbing tool after the picture was taken
