Hello again to my blog followers! Sorry for my brief hiatus from blogging. Life has been super busy with Molly and I buying a house and moving. Now we are pretty much settled in and the work begins! There are so many things to tackle, but our first project is to fix our 1920s Crane shower faucet.
This is a pre-war Crane “Concorde” shower valve. The shower handle is hard to turn and hot water was not coming out. My dad and I pulled everything apart to see what it looked like and try to fix it. Unfortunately, our attempt to fix the valve was futile. We bought some rubber washers hoping it would help, but it was not the right thickness to allow any water to flow. It’s been a bit of a hassle to locate info and parts on this model mixer valve. I found a place in Chicago called the Chicago Faucet Shoppe that carries the parts for this shower faucet.
I gave the company a call, but the news was not reassuring. Although I was able to get the parts I needed now, some of the parts were no longer available. I am afraid that if something else broke on it I would not be able fix it. Molly and I decided to just replace it with modern faucet. Yes, this was a hard decision for me to make. I loved this piece in our shower, but it is just not practical for us.
Austin M. Frederick 
Reblogged this on The Oshkosh Craftsman and commented:
I posted this on my other blog back in June. This was the old shower faucet that was in our shower. Unfortunately it stopped working and had to be replaced.