[pure-silver] Temp Control Valve Issue
- From: Adrienne Moumin <photowonder2010@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Pure Silver <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:25:05 -0500
Perhaps someone has a sugestion to help me avoid cleaning out my bank account
to resolve this.
My circa-1996 Delta TCM sink's valve seems useless in our sub-freezing
cinder-block darkroom, esp. now that we have gotten a tankless hot water heater
(a piece of folly I do NOT recommend to anyone!)
Whereas I used to be able to at least nudge the temp dial back & forth to
ultimately get a desired, 3-4 degree range, now with this new water heater I
have to crank it *all* the way hot or cold to get it to even budge, and then I
can only get either 40F or 100F--nothing in between. Of course I found this
after the prints were in the wash!
CPM/Delta no longer carries the retrofit/repair parts; after being referred
around & around I found a wholesaler who carries the retrofit kit (MCC Powers
420451L), for the princely sum of $270! And then I have to find someone to
install it...you get the picture. A whole new valve is about $500. (While a
whole new sink/valve combo runs $1,057!!)
I am not married to the idea of having to replace what's there. I am willing
to bypass it via a whole new temp mixer mounted to the wall, with 4 hoses
hooked up to the sink (for the 3 tempered, 1 untempered spigot). I am trying
to save money, without making this a major research project. I have a reliable
& reasonably-priced handyman who can and will do anything I ask plumbing-wise,
without necessarily having to understand the internal workings of the temp
controls.
Any suggestions? Ideas? Tell me I need to move into the 21st century and stop
being such a cheapskate? (I am the product of 2 Depression-era parents, and it
comes out more & more the older I get!)
Thanks MUCH in advance!
-Adrienne Moumin
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