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Question: Caravan Taps
Raymond Turner
 
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Posted on 22 Apr 2013 18:50

The kitchen tap in my Bailey Senator has broken. The lever has snapped off. To replace this with the parts from Bailey would cost £71. Rather a high price to pay for a flimsy piece of plastic.
I have searched the web to no avail. I was hoping to find a replacement for the lever only. Because it's only a tiny bit of plastic which has broken that locks it onto the tap.The main bit of the tap is fine.

Anyone got any ideas??????

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Ray
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Posted on 24 Apr 2013
Hello Ray

I am not familiar with your tap but surely a tap is a tap and an alternative make that fits will do the job just as well . When I built my campervan (The RoadRunner) I was not impressed with the ones from the caravan shops and went to a ships chandlers. I purchased a very good chrome on brass tap for the princely sum of £14.99 it has a swivel spout. The cheap price belies the quality. In any event why pay a lot of money to repair an easily damaged tap?

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Hello Ray thanks for replying. Sounds like your system also includes a shower and is a lot more complicated than I made mine. You have probably got a pressure switch and accumulater, or possibly the tap itself is a combined tap & switch. I'll be interested to read how you finally resolve the problem. Posted by alan Myland on 25 Apr 2013
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Posted on 29 Apr 2013
Alan is correct - a tap is a tap. Make the hole the tap fits in larger. The pressure bit is irrelevant – most taps have pressure. The Bailey is a pressure switch situated by the water otter, so an ordinary flow/no flow tap will work fine.
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Hi Alan, thanks for your reply. I've actually resolved the issue with a bit of wire and some super glue. And if that fails there's a cheaper alternative on eBay.
I mentioned the pressure because a lot of caravans or not pressurised and operate with a pump (whale) that fits inside the water barrel and a microswitch on the tap. You are correct that a normal tap would suffice, but would require the tap hole enlarging as you stated. Also the tails from the tap would also need some modification.
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