Dave11
New Member
I've got a 1950's one-piece toilet, and needed to replace the fill valve. Problem is in duplicating the supply line. There's a half-inch chrome water line coming horizontally through the wall, ending at a chrome toilet valve. From there, a compression fitting on top connects to a short piece of 3/8 chrome pipe that ends in the 7/8 nut that connects to the fill valve. The length of that pipe is only 2.5 inches. The original piece was bent in the initial install, but apparently never leaked. But the modern fill valves have threads that are about half an inch longer, and the original piece would need to be bent further to make it fit.
So I went to the plumbing supplier to look for a suitable replacement, but the guy there said no one makes anything like that, in either rigid or flexible tubing.
The shortest flexible/braided line I can find is 6 inches, which is way too long, and there's not enough room to make a loop without really putting sideways pressure on the fittings.
Anyone know of a way to make this connection?
So I went to the plumbing supplier to look for a suitable replacement, but the guy there said no one makes anything like that, in either rigid or flexible tubing.
The shortest flexible/braided line I can find is 6 inches, which is way too long, and there's not enough room to make a loop without really putting sideways pressure on the fittings.
Anyone know of a way to make this connection?