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I am tapping into the collected wisdon of the group. I have a cabin where the winters get below freezing on occasion and high RH, in the summer the temp. can go over 100F with RH below 10%. The hose bibs are about 50 years old. Most of them are leaking around the stems when on. Can I use something to refresh them a special product, WD-40, penetrating oil, tri-flo or? Or do I just have to bite the bullit and repack them?

Thanks,

CP

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MOP CAP
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Ayup. Probably all will do good w/ a new compression washer, too. On the farmstead here there are a gazillion hose bibs in the yard, garden and variously scattered about corrals and all...I'd venture most are 70 or 80 year old if a day; I know for fact they've not been replaced since I was a young'un and that's been the majority of that time span. :)

I did go about and refurb a significant number of them a couple years ago by capping three or four rarely used ones, redoing them, then as had a little time would take another group replacing them with the worked-over ones. Rinse, lather, repeat...if one only has a few, it's not such a deal.

I've found there simply aren't any available any longer that have the quality stems, few-turn full opening and don't have much more flow blockage internally as these older specimens; at least without being $30/ea.

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dpb

The first step is to tighten the packing nut to compress the packing.

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-jsw

Reply to
Jim Wilkins

I've added years to the life of string packings just by loosening the packing nut a couple of turns and dripping in a few drops of motor oil, along the stem.

Reply to
Ed Huntress

I use my LPS-3 for jobs like that, to see how well it protects metals other than steel. It dries to a soft wax that's better than nothing as a lubricant. So far it's worked well on zinc and OK on brass (hard to tell) but it's not much help on aluminum.

-jsw

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Jim Wilkins

Cord is $1.45 at Home Depot and it takes nearly 4 minutes to repack a bib. Are there any other questions?

There is enough cord in a pack to service at least two bibs, BTW.

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Larry Jaques

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