I Broke The Tank

fourcornerhome

I went to change the guts in the old toilet tank.Must be about from 1960,nice blue color,but a real mess with rust and minerals from well. So I take it outside to clean it up in the cold (30 F).Had this thing sparkling clean and just needed a rinsing . As soon as I pour the water (too warm?) on it,I hear a tick.Near as I can figure,I'll need to get a whole new toilet because I don't know where to get a tank for a 3.5 gal flush here in the U.S.Just another one of those days.

Ron The Plumber

Too bad you did not call a plumber to fix it, you might not have been in this situation if you had.

threaderman

Yea,you're probably out-of-luck.If you have to have the blue you can probably find something fairly close,but you may pay a pretty penny for it in the 1.6 gal.

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Teetorbilt

A creeping epoxy should fill the crack. Check out Git Rot, it's really made for wood but should seep in well, seal the crack. It's really just a very thin epoxy.

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Ron The Plumber

Check a salvage yard if you have one there.

Teetorbilt

Ron, that may be an option but finding some of those '60's colors is near impossible.

I thought about stockpiling some a few years ago when a major reno was being done in a subdivision. Some of the colors I had never seen before! Time, effort, overhead, return, etc. squelched the thought.

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Ron The Plumber

I had always wondered how those colors came about, what was the manufacturer's thinking or was it that they were not thinking. What triggered this color fad.

Ron The Plumber

Lets see here.

Puck Green
Barf Yellow
Pink Belly
Gag Me Blue.

threaderman

Those are the colors all-right.

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Double-A

Does the name Timothy Leary mean anything to you?

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KillerToiletSpider

Kohler made a bright orange back in the sixties, it was called Tiger Lily.

Horrid.

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Ron The Plumber

LSD for short.

Ron The Plumber

Was Crane a major supplier in the color toilets.

KillerToiletSpider

For the most part Crane makes colors to match the major fixture makers, as they are not one,.

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Leo G

If you can find one the same size you can get someone to put a color on it like they do to refinish bathtubs. Probably way cheaper to buy a new toilet in the long run though.

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neolitic

Don't know where OP is,
but even here in li'l old Indy,
we've got a couple of places
that carry all sorts of salvaged
fixtures.
I found an exact match
lid for a 1929 wall mount
tank two years ago.

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KillerToiletSpider

Electro-glazing doesn't work well on vitreous china.

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dkillianjr

Yup there is a place by me too. You could probly find almost anything there from slate to doors to toilets!



Dave

masterk

Four,
Whats your location, I have a whole toilet that color. Yes it is used.

All Clear Sewer

but is it clean

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