Ok ladies and gents, I now have 3 feet of 1/4 inch teflon seat material...comes in 3 ft lengths... so I can make quite a few seats for these tank pressure testers. It fits perfectly into the thumb screw of the tester. It may fit others, just measure the diameter of the seat, if it's 1/4 inch (0.25)then odds are it will fit, if it doesn't you are out a whole 2 stamps. If you would like 2 or 3 all you need to do is send me a PM and I will send you my mailing address. You send me a SASE that I can put them in to return to you. No charge, the cost is so little that it's not worth the trouble....consider it an early Christmas present. Allan,Luis, Bryan I already have your addresses if you want any, just let me know.
To remove the existing seat, if you are lucky, all you have to do is push it out with a small drill bit through the small hole in the thumbscrew. If you are unlucky like I was, I had to resort to using a dremel tool with a small burr on it to grind most of it out then use a dental pick to pull the remaining parts out the seat. Try not to grind the metal but if you do, it's not a big deal, there are no sealing surfaces inside the thumbscrew. Mine was some form of light brown plastic, it ground out easily into a fine powder. Installing the seat is just a matter of pressing it in.
) plastic that refused to come out of the holder. I expected it to be fairly thin and easy to get out- not. It is about 1/4 inch long and at least mine had to be ground out with a Dremel burr. If yours works, I would not suggest trying to remove it, odds are you will distroy it. Anyway, since I have had to make one for myself and another for a board memeber, does anyone else have one of these tank testers that needs a seat? I might as well make several while I am at it. If you need one, let me know and I will turn a few extra. Here are photos of the tank tester and the new seat.
