My house was built in 1975. I got the long tube type stem for the faucets for outdoors. One has cracked (4 2" long cracks) running down the tube. My guess is metal fatigue or somebody turned the handle really hard to shut off the water. In any case, the new models use a solid shaft instead of a brass tube shaft. I would prefer just to change it because the bathroom wall is directly under the plumbing and I figure it is minimum a 3 day job to change out the faucet for a new model.(as I have to basically destroy a bathroom wall that is directly under the plumbing. I put up a lot of cross braces between the floor joists. Was hoping to find old guts The numbers on the faucet casting is B K LM13344 (and there might be a "2DO" below that) Really looking for the B K manufacturer or supplier and would ask there but don't know web address. Help would be appreciated if someone knows. This site is my first shot at looking for the unit. (of course this has to break "after I built the wall", drywall, and painted it)

The gas meter outlet is 1-1/4". One side of a 'T' branches to 3/4" 50 ft. supply to gas furnace (122k BTU). The other side of the 1-1/4" T is blanked off (previously used for swimming pool heater). I don't know how much pressure is on the outlet of the regulator, it's a Rockwell 107 and might be about 45 yrs old. When my kitchen was remodeled last year, I bought a large 6 burner gas stove (102k btu). The sub-contracted plumber added a 3/4" 'T' close to where the 3/4" heater supply pipe originates and ran a new 3/4" 50 ft supply for the stove. meter --> 1.25" T --> one side reduced to 3/4" --> 3/4" T --> furnace line & stove line. So both the furnace and stove supply lines take their gas supply from the same short 3/4" nipple off of the 1-1/4" 'T' at the meter. It seems to me that this may be too much load for 2 high demand appliances and that each of these 3/4" supply lines should run separately from the 1-1/4" 'T' rather than from a 3/4" T. Individually, each line is sufficient according to a table I found on the web. But since they both originate from the same 3/4" nipple off of the 1-1/4" T I'm wondering if this design is under sized. Should I have the lines redone so that they each branch off from the 1-1/4" outlet? Or because the supply lines for the 2 appliances branch off only a short distance beyond the 1-1/4" line is the design sufficient? I don't notice any problem in the use of the appliances but I also don't know how to determine if the supply is adequate or not. thanks, Jon