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medusa569 (DC)
After breaking and experiencing repair woes with pedastal sink I will be reinstalling the 20plus year old original sink.
It was so long ago when I removed it I did save the 2 L shaped mounting brakets but it's such a heavy sink I am nervous about finding any solid piece of reinforced wall to which I can rehang it. It must have something because it was there before. In apt buildings built in the forties how high and how big of a reinforcement piece did they customarily build so I can know what to expect. I remember seeing the very flimsy old iron cross cross studs but nothing of the good old hefty wood nature. I have nightmares about watching the sink fall from the drywall and hitting the water feeds with flooding ensues. This is the old wall mount sink with the 2 chrome lavatory legs in front. I also am at a loss as to how these support bars attached to the sink/ any pictures of this type of install would really help.
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packy (MA)
if you have lav legs for the front of the sink, those will go a long way in holding the weight. 20 years ago someone put some blocking behing the sheetrock. could just be plywood but given that the legs are in the front, that should be plenty.
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Wheelchair (IL)
Love those old sinks with chrome faucets. The back plate is unique and the anchor bolts must be mounted securely. The solid legs support the front. I hope you use solid piping supplies, to complete the job.
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medusa569 (DC)
well I took a closer look today praying for an reinforced block of wood. Don't think I found it. With my magent I taped of the profile of metals it found. My zircon detector didn't seem to have any substantial luck locating wood either from what I could tell. All the blue tape is where metalic items were found. The one on the left and far right are complete vetical metal(only metal) studs. The ones by the water feeds are puzzling as they seem to be two solid block of metal about 3-4"X 2". This is not a complete horizontal bar because it does break but I don't think they're the water pipes either. It seemed like the pull was too great and I didn't get that when I searched around the drain pipe. Any idea what might be going on here. Our maintenace man says to go ahead and use molly bolts and that will be fine and I might agree but the 2 chrom L braces ( crane style) that were on the edges before don't seem adequate for hollowwall and I'm having a heck of a time finding a center bracket. The sink is marked "standard" but AS doesn't have any record of this sink model to recommmend a bracket. Any good generic brackets out there that would fit a 12 inch back opening? All the supply houses are asking me sink name and model but are stymied when I read them the number. The only id marks are "standard" feb 9 , m61 310 151 24. Any help sources a bracket for the middle support would be lifesaving. Guests are coming and we need the bathroom back together. So with 4 beefy mollies and the legs are we about as secure as we'll get without a reinforced board? PS which way do water pipes run so I can avoid puncturing them with the bolts?
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packy (MA)
this type is readily available..
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medusa569 (DC)
I've seen these but the angle they offer doesn't seem like it would accept a total sit of a sink with 1 inch porcelaine back. The older wrought iron ones have real tabs that can accept the 1 inch or more wall size. But modern hangers seem to be made pretty flimsy with little angle.
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packy (MA)
google search for..
old iron hanger for wall hung sink
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Wheelchair (IL)
American Stad, at one time, manufactured dozens of metal wall hangers for their various china products.
I believe the 2 more popular wall hangers were:
047074-0070A
047073-0070A
Not to confuse, with the :
047013-0070A
047070-0070A
The T-2 & T-3 were used for wall hung urinals.
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medusa569 (DC)
Well jusy spoke with AS and the girl claims they only have 1 style hanger now and that must be the S-9. The other 2 sure looked good though. I never saw these other examples during any of my internet searching! Well I ordered their s-9 and I hope it works even though the bend in it is only 7-16" big. I must be missing something or I definately got the wrong bracket...we'll see in about 3 days.
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Wheelchair (IL)
AS, is not the company it once was. They have been buying and selling. They deleted much of the special inventory that once was popular. So goes the story with their hangers. I'm sure there are old suppliers that may still have few in their inventory, and AS is not aware.
Good Luck.
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