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Old 02-07-2014, 05:32 AM   #11
glatt
 
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Take that picture of what you have to a local hardware store (not Home Depot or Lowes) and go to the plumbing section and just look at the fittings they have on hand. You'll probably be able to figure out how to cobble together something from what they have on hand. And there will probably be someone knowledgable there to help you. You'll need a basin wrench, most likely.

The problem with plumbing is that it is fragile, and even when you do everything correctly, stuff can still wind up leaking because grit and hard water deposits scratch mating surfaces.

Something like this should take half an hour to do, but if I touched it, it would take all day and a few trips to the store, and I'd probably end up replacing everything above those shutoff valves, including the faucet itself. That's just Murphy's law and plumbing.
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