14mm Back Nut

[MickBrown]

I am fitting a kitchen sink tap, it is a Deva tap with built in filtered water tap. As the threaded bar for the back nut is also the inlet tube for the filtered water then it has a 14mm back nut. All the long sockets I can find end at 13mm, there is no room at all for a small spanner so wondered if anybody has any ideas? The only one I can think of is bending the end of a 14mm ring spanner 90deg and trying to use that although do not know if it would fit over the nut with the normal tails fairly close.

 

[Guest123]

Halfords or any good garage with a retail forecourt should be able to supply you with a 14mm box key. Mines is 14 on one side and 16 on the other.

 

[Joncpi]

Long or deep sockets are readily available on ebay. Also the old original standard size sparkplug spanner is 14mm so you may have a socket set with one of these in it. If not we have a really good secondhand tool shop down here that has a lot of odd ball things like this. Do you have such a place up your way?

 

[Mike Jackson]

Have a look at Halfords | Halfords Professional 30 piece Metric Vortex Socket System

A bit expensive for a one off but could be useful if you get involved in a lot of monoblocks. I keep eyeing them up myself.

 

[johnnyplumb]

if you are doing alot of monobloc taps, you are better with long reach sockets than box spanners. use the long reach sockets with a good quality ratchet, get a few extension bars, i have a 3" bar & two 6" bars. box spanners are harder to use in tight spaces than a ratchet. most monobloc taps are 8-13mm. You should not have a problem getting a 14mm long reach socket.