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Author:
heliosj (FL)
The water diverter on my shower spout broke off last night leaving me unable to turn on the shower. So I did a little search on the Internet and I've discovered there are two main spouts -- a slip off secured by a screw and a twist on secured with a thread. My shower spout does indeed have a hole at the very back of the bottom of the spout, leading me to believe it's a slip off with a screw. However, when I stick my finger up there, I just feel a rounded pipe, no screw or divot to undo. Does this mean my spout is a screw off? I tried with all my might and then with a wrench to turn it under clockwise, but it wasn't budging and I don't want to make matters worse.
Is there a 3rd type of spout that I haven't come across yet? What am I missing?
Thanks in advance!
PS - I'm 95% sure it's a Price Pfister spout.
PPS - This would be a lot easier if I could just replace the water diverter, but I can't seem to find one.
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Author:
hj
ALL spouts have the opening at the bottom for drainage in case of a leak. Some have the set screw in that hole, but most have it on the outside of the spout. Yours is probably a screw on model. You may have two problems.
1. They do not always unscrew easily, and
2. You have to find one with the internal thread the exact same dimension from the back to the threads or it will either not tighten up before hitting the wall, or will tighten up before it touches the wall.
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Author:
heliosj (FL)
The Home Depot YouTube video shows a shower spout without a hole at the bottom back part.. so I'm pretty not "all" have that?
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Author:
heliosj (FL)
Update..
I just crawled underneath the spout and shined a flash light up there, there's no place to stick an allen wrench or screw driver up there. I'm either a weakling or that thing is wedged on there.. or I'm missing something.
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Author:
Rick Laser (CA)
Price Pfister will replace the spout free of charge. You can find their contact information on the web. Or to save time you can get one at Home Depot. Make sure you don't break off the nipple pipe the spout is screwed on in the wall. That would magnify your problem.
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Author:
North Carolina Plumber (NC)
I've heard of some people crushing the spout with a large pair of channel locks in order to remove them. After the main body has been removed a wrench can be placed on the male adapter and the rest of the spout unscrewed without any danger of twisting off the stub out. I've never done it that way, I usually jam a wrench in the spout opening and twist it off.
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Author:
waukeshaplumbing (WI)
ive never had a problem taking the threaded spouts off...take an average size channel locks around the spout and turn it...whether its a slip spout or threaded it will turn.
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Author:
dlh (TX)
yeah wauks, i have turned every one of them i have tried also. the problem is is that for many of them it was the copper stub out that turned not the spout at the threaded adapter
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Author:
jimbo42 (NY)
CLOCKWISE...try counter-clockwise!!!!!!
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Author:
hj
Maybe I should have said "most" in that case, but the majority of the generic ones do. I will have to open one of my PricePfister valves to see if it does or not.
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Author:
hj
IT is screwed on, especially if it is a Price Pfister spout, because that is the only type they make. You are on your own as to removing it, because it may unscrew with additional force, or it may twist the copper tubing. It also depends on whether they used a steel pipe, brass pipe, or copper tubing with an adapter to screw the diverter onto.
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Author:
Shoemaker2 (MA)
If you find it is a screw on type, you can always cut it and use a slip on type.
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Author:
hj
Assuming the stub out is copper and not ips.
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Author:
Shoemaker2 (MA)
This is true!
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Author:
Shoemaker2 (MA)
I think that is what under clockwise meant.
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Author:
hj
Probably meant to say anti-clockwise.
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