Crane valve seats?

I need seats for a Crane tub/shower brass 2 handle valve. Valve is old; house built in 1939.

Valve is one-piece cast brass. It includes a separate cast brass elbow with 2 threaded holes on "top", one for the galvanized pipe down from the valve center and the other for the shower above. All threads for pipes are 1/2"NPT. Valve water inlets and diverter outlet are on valve bottom.

Seats are brass, OA height 13/32", thread 9/16"x24. I think NPT, but there are only 4 threads so hard to tell. Max dia. at the shoulder that sits on the valve is 21/32". The OD of the face for on-off seal is 11/16" and wall thickness at the face is 1/8".

Thanks,
Herb

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You are fortunate. Later Crane/Repcal bodies during the war did not have removable seats. Take it to any good parts store. They should be able to retrofit a seat for you. It may not have to be the exact seat as long as the thread is the same.

hj said:

You are fortunate. Later Crane/Repcal bodies during the war did not have removable seats. Take it to any good parts store. They should be able to retrofit a seat for you. It may not have to be the exact seat as long as the thread is the same.

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Thanks for fast response, hj.

"Good parts store" here may not be, as the 9/16x24 has so far been "not stocked, sorry we can't get". I might be able to reface one seat, but the other has an erosion groove that puts a slot-head screw to shame.

Perhaps I could make a face on a 9/16" reducer....hmmm. Gotta see if there is such a thingie.

I'd like to bump this thread in case anyone has seats that might fit.

Herb