Carlegeo
New Member
I have an old shower arm with a ball at the end - there is nothing else but the ball, and the
ball does not have a coupling or ring around it where the showerhead screws into it -
its just a ball with a hole in it -- and
the showerhead just fits on the ball by itself.
(showerhead has no threads in it either)
I only know this from recently, when the showerhead started falling off the ball, and
all I could see inside the showerhead was a partial o-ring, the rest had worn away or fallen out,
and assumed that somehow
the o-ring, placed inside the shower head top, fit onto the ball and made enough
contact, that the showerhead did not fall off.
That is, the shower head has no threads itself, just an empty area where I found
the partial o-ring.
I have purchased about 20 o-ring sizes and none seem to work ! Have purchased
what seemed to be too big and too small just to be sure.
===> Does anyone know what might be the solution ?
Again, the ball itself does not have a collar at all that its embedded in - its just a ball and somehow the showerhead,
which has no threads itself, was held on by the previous o-ring, or some other way I don't understand.
And I think that the 2 wheadon or other ball arm adapters won't work cause they assume that there
is something around the ball to screw into - and this does not have that at all.
Thanks for any suggestions - carlegeo
ball does not have a coupling or ring around it where the showerhead screws into it -
its just a ball with a hole in it -- and
the showerhead just fits on the ball by itself.
(showerhead has no threads in it either)
I only know this from recently, when the showerhead started falling off the ball, and
all I could see inside the showerhead was a partial o-ring, the rest had worn away or fallen out,
and assumed that somehow
the o-ring, placed inside the shower head top, fit onto the ball and made enough
contact, that the showerhead did not fall off.
That is, the shower head has no threads itself, just an empty area where I found
the partial o-ring.
I have purchased about 20 o-ring sizes and none seem to work ! Have purchased
what seemed to be too big and too small just to be sure.
===> Does anyone know what might be the solution ?
Again, the ball itself does not have a collar at all that its embedded in - its just a ball and somehow the showerhead,
which has no threads itself, was held on by the previous o-ring, or some other way I don't understand.
And I think that the 2 wheadon or other ball arm adapters won't work cause they assume that there
is something around the ball to screw into - and this does not have that at all.
Thanks for any suggestions - carlegeo