Hi - I have an Insinkerator model SST instant hot water faucet on my sink. It was installed about 12 years ago. It's been pretty spitty for a while but useable. Recently it's gotten a little worse, so I'm looking into how to fix it. The Emerson website mentions potentially needing to change the filter on models with a filter, but I feel like the older model doesn't have one (hopefully not, since I've never changed it). It also talks about clearing the aerator (diagram shows it as a piece next to the faucet, but I don't see that either. Finally it says turn the temperature down - ours was set to the max, so I did that but it only helped a little. Before I tear the thing open, any potentially easy fixes I could try?
Look to see if there is a procedure to descale the heater. I wonder if minerals have built up on the heating element. This can cause small areas to flash to steam even if the water temperature is set lower.
I looked thru the available publications from ISE but didn't find any info on cleaning the heater.
The two problems they mentioned are temperature set too high and dirty filter screen in aerator.
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My toilet knowledge is 50 years old. This is my girlfriend's modern toilet in her rental house.
The flush handle kept falling off. I bought a new handle close to the length of the old handle and hooked the chain to the end of the actuating rod.
What happens is the flush cylinder turns clockwise after several flushes and the chain repositions itself so that it does not have enough leverage to lift the mechanism to start the flush.
Directly above where the cylinder rotates to, the flush rod has a groove. Is the chain somehow supposed to be attached there? It is not a hole, just a groove.
I think there is just something about these modern toilets that needs to be explained to me.
Here is a picture: you can see the chain going around to the left edge of the cylinder, directly below the hard-to-see groove in the rod
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While we're at this, the handle has already fallen off. There is no set screw. The square hole in the handle just pushes on to the square end of the rod. If it just pushes on, a little pull and it comes right off.
What am I missing in all of this? Until now my girlfriend thought I knew everything.
R.
10-02-22, 03:24 PM
