Needed to replace very old showerhead. Bought a nice, shiny heavy Speakman 2.5 gpm. Did not want to mar the Speakman and saw folks recommending rubber strap wrench from Harbor Freight for $5, which includes two wrenches. Great! 'Cept could not get either wrench to grab. https://www.harborfreight.com/rubber-strap-wrench-set-2-piece So ended up using a Crescent adjustable end wrench. No scratches. And, I found the strap wrench works great on stubborn kitchen jars. kris
I've got one of those sets-of-two rubber strap wrenches, which I successfully used for a number of things, but didn't find the straps to hold up very long. I have a woven nylon webbing oil filter strap wrench that I've had since college and still as good as ever.
i use a crescent and rag to protect the surface. doesn't take much pressure to prevent it from dripping with a good teflon tape wrap.
^ that. When I was traveling for Uncle I used to LITERALLY carry a modified shower head with me, along with a wrench and some tape for those budget hotels that had 'plant-misting' shower heads. Fortunately, I married up. My CFO's standards for hotels are MUCH higher than her standards for husbands - so I get to leave the Teflon tape at home now..... IYKYK.....
We’re using a vice-grip style wrench on such jars, they can be absurdly stubborn. then there’s tin snips, for the key-opening corned beef tins that hang up at the seam. I recall one bottle with a “security” cap: end up cutting that off, and breaking loose the underlying, real cap, with the bottle clamped in a vice, vice-grips rotating the cap. Say this feels like the kitchen edition of just have to vent.
Good job...I just get some painters tape and wrap up anything I don't want scratched. Easy to remove, too, without leaving glue. (For things that are super-easy to scratch, I'll also put some tape on the wrench I'm using.)
Used thread "goop" rather than tape for decades. A little more messy, but no big deal. But, a decade (.?) ago took advice of a professional plumber and tried Oatey Fastape. Gray colored so it sorta blends with Chrome and Stainless. Three wraps and watertight. BTW, I love conserving water, but low-flow heads...? Hate pulling the restrictor as then it is too much flow. But .75 gpm is not gonna work. 2.5 gpm sounds reasonable. Finally, did not realize there is no set standard for GPM for showers in the USA. Different states, different GPM. There, my contribution to topics that veer away from the flood lately that seem to be different ids.
Do a couple of submarine patrols or spend 8 months or so in a tent and you will never want ANY KIND of 'restrictor' in your shower head!!
I served in the Coast Guard and also worked a commerical fisher off the California Coast -- if we got too dank, just took a dive . Fishing boat conserved the most No showers or bathing of any kind unless we anchored off an island and you leaped in...or there was on deck with a bucket of seawater and "special soap." The crew also shunned the formal head and took care of all business "over the side." But, yeah, 2.5 gpm is fine. Don't want to damage my delicate skin! Federal standard seems to be 2.5 gpm, but California Washington Oregon are 1.8 Gpm. Thought I heard .75 gpm somewhere, but guess not
