Hello, can anyone help? What tool is best for tightening the stud nut for a monobloc tap with pipe tails. Everything I've tried won't grip as the flexible pipe tails prevent clear access to the nut. Thanks.

Thanks Scruff, managed to do it with some bent nose pliers as a large wrench or even any size wrench just wont fit in the gap because of the back of the basin on one side and the two tail pipes on the other.
Just wondering why anything I try to do is never easy or simple to sort out Saved me taking the sink out again though.....


Thanks again

I use a 3/8 drive deep socket on an extension. dead easy to do.
Just don't overtighten it!!

These should do the job

https://www.machinemart.co.uk/product.asp?p=040510020&r=2081&g=111

Jason

[quote author=shirleye68  link=1107612985/0#0 date=1107612985]What tool is best for tightening the stud nut for a monobloc tap with pipe tails. Everything I've tried won't grip as the flexible pipe tails prevent clear access to the nut. Thanks. [/quote]

It might help to tighten the stud nut before putting on the pipe tails. I do it that way, though I sometimes have had to put the tap on the sink before fitting it into the worktop.