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Originally Posted by glatt
I'm trying that. I did the fix last night, and the valve was still leaking this morning. Tiny leak, but one that I can't live with. I'll give it a couple more days. I wonder if rubbing plumber's grease on it from the outside would do anything?
On my list of "things to do" is to re-plumb the entire house with PEX so I stop getting flakes of rust from these old galvanized pipes messing up fixtures.
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Glatt, is it a gate valve or a ball valve? If it is a gate valve and is leaking from the stem you just take off the handle, loosen the large packing nut that goes around the stem and put a piece of stem packing around the stem and then put the packing nut back on, then the handle.
That's why most people use ball valves nowadays.