Help identify a tap cartridge

[Fastpedaller]

I’ve been through this hell without luck. My local plumbing merchant has now closed.

It really is something that government could do to standardise these, if the industry won’t.
Battery sizes don’t see to be a problem, so why not plumbing parts?

I remember a customer telling me he worked for the steel industry using British Standards...... of which there are thousands.
No chance of standard plumbing parts - as soon as a new product is made they'll 'make a new standard'
Talking of which I retired from plumbing last August, and it was getting increasingly difficult to repair showers in particular - new models each years 'upgrading' old ones. I'm convinced this is to get around the requirements of providing spares......... "Oh no, we can't sell a spare because that model isn't made any more!"

 

[classic33]

View attachment 767741 According to my Google search it comes ups with

They match!

 

[mickle]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/153751927408

 

[pangolin]

Haha thanks for the replies all. Access is tough so taking the whole tap is not going to happen, I'll just buy a new tap if the hunt is fruitless and I can't avoid taking the tap out.

Trying to avoid taking the cartridge somewhere as there is no isolator so I have to turn the water off to the house, which won't be tolerated for long!

I'll try servicing it and report back.

 

[slowmotion]

To be fair to the merchants unless it's a recognise brand of tap they actually stock it is close to impossible to identify the unit required. My mixer shower thermostat failed and the genuinely very good and well respected local merchant said they'd have a go if I brought the thermostat part it, but no promises, but the practicalities if this meant I bought a complete new shower unit. You'd naturally think there'd be no more than half a dozen valves and all the makers would fit whichever was most suitable, but stupidly there are hundreds

I got fed up with faffing about with our thermostatic shower mixer valve and replaced it with a manual one. The flow rate is much higher and it can't creep down to a lukewarm temperature over a few years. I figured that I've never scalded my big toe with the bath tap, so why worry about poaching myself in the shower?