When we took out the pressurized freshwater system, we removed the standard kitchen-style faucet that was in the galley and replaced it with a home-made faucet fashioned out of a piece of copper tubing, to use for the seawater foot pump we installed. We spent a lot of time with various fittings and heat shrink tubing to make our own fixture that would be able to rotate yet not leak. It worked for a few months, then one day I grabbed it and tried to rotate it out over the sink and the copper tubing just twisted on me. Clearly it wasn’t going to be a lasting solution. So I bit the bullet and bought a brass fixture from Svendsens. Then of course I had to drill a new hole to accomodate it, since the old hole was way too big and there weren’t enough threads on the fixture to let me fit large washers.
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