I know at least one forum member has installed an extra tap in a Burco, but I can't find the picture. Now I need to do the same, because the original tap is too high.
Is this part sutable? http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/pro ... 8&ts=46224
I know stainless steel is hard. Any advice on making the hole, please?
Installing a tap in a boiler?
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john, wouldn't think that tap is suitable, I would imagine that the tap handle would hit the side of the burco.
How about something like this:-
http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/pro ... 7&ts=46955
they're compression fitting so you'd need a stub of copper coming out of the burco. Perhaps a tank connector fitted to the burco then a stub then the ball valve....
How about something like this:-
http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/pro ... 7&ts=46955
they're compression fitting so you'd need a stub of copper coming out of the burco. Perhaps a tank connector fitted to the burco then a stub then the ball valve....
DaaB - one more question, if you don't mind: I've ordered the nylon tap which you suggested, but it's ocurred to me that when you install a plastic tap in a plastic bin, the plastic is forced flat as the nut is tightened. With a plastic tap in stainless, that's unlikely to happen. So will I have problems getting it to seal?
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hi JM. i had a duff tap on my boiler. the solution i adopted was as per daabs suggestion. here's how it looks fitted.
i bought the fittings from b&q, their tank connector was real easy to drill through, it took a 15mm pipe through both ends, stopped only by a thing ring of copper for a pipe stop. the one's i looked at didn't come with a washer, so get a 4 / 5mm thick rubber type. no leaks at all with mine even though the hole is elongated to accept the original tap. good luck.
i bought the fittings from b&q, their tank connector was real easy to drill through, it took a 15mm pipe through both ends, stopped only by a thing ring of copper for a pipe stop. the one's i looked at didn't come with a washer, so get a 4 / 5mm thick rubber type. no leaks at all with mine even though the hole is elongated to accept the original tap. good luck.
Thanks FM. That's the pic I was looking for. If I'd realised you could run a pipe straight through the tank connector, I'd have done that. I thought it was going to be a case of just shove a piece of pipe into the back of the tank connector, so I decided against it.
I also decided against the nylon tap, because DaaB was not 100% sure - he normally is!
In the end, I went for plan A, a garden tap. The garden tap is only there to fill a hole and the original Lincat tap is in the newly drilled, lower hole.
BTW, the Bosch hole saw with a few squirts of WD40 went through the stainless with no difficulty at all.
I'm now looking forward to the next post, telling me that garden taps aren't food safe and the brass is loaded with lead
I also decided against the nylon tap, because DaaB was not 100% sure - he normally is!
In the end, I went for plan A, a garden tap. The garden tap is only there to fill a hole and the original Lincat tap is in the newly drilled, lower hole.
BTW, the Bosch hole saw with a few squirts of WD40 went through the stainless with no difficulty at all.
I'm now looking forward to the next post, telling me that garden taps aren't food safe and the brass is loaded with lead
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