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4 Dec 2000 at 12:25 am
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Dennis: The only advantage to purchasing foreign faucets overseas
is probably a price difference. However foreign faucets sold in America are made to fit American
Plumbing with National Pipe Thread
shanks for connection and centers
for the shanks confirming to inches
not metric. If the country is on the metric standard, those faucets will not fit US standard sinks, lavatories, tubs etc. Not to mention the availability of repair
parts (unless you are regularly overseas)?