OK - its a lot easier if I ask here and see if someone has the answer before I break my back
I have a centre type mixer on the kitchen sink
When you move it the whole thing is sort of moving and its pissing me off
I got under and there is a LONG brass nut that does up and I am guessing "clamps" this "C" thing
F&cked if I can get a spanner on it.
The gap is about 75mm
So - are they a standard nut?
Special tool?
some sort of trick?
It is a bitch laying upside down trying to get past the flex pipes and trying to get a light in there
Mine was 7/16 11 mm not sure if that's standard t I'm hearing ya shit of a job mine pissed me off for months
2 long brass nuts i think
Yes the brass nut on the "C" is for tightening / clamping.... Do you have a very small shifter ? Or otherwise, a tube spanner is usually the
easiest way to tighten. You could also try a deep socket.
You can buy the tube spanners from Bunnings in a set, usually near the plumbing isle,
Nath
Tube/ box socket/ spanner will be the go. They get called variations of these names, but essentially they are a length of pipe with a hex on each end. You can get pretty cheap sets from places like SuperCheap. Do a search on Ebay. They are about $20 for a set of 6
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Oh..and thanks 
Sometimes easier to take the whole sink out, tighten it with some loc-tight, and then reinstall the sink pgrading the sealing around the edges as you
go. I tightened my tap up 3 times while it was fitted to the bench and on each occasion had to to repeat it in about 5 weeks !!!!
Frustrating beyond belief !
sink is welded in 
That said - I braved the cold and went down the garage and dug around and found my stash of 35 year old tools and yes - the one tube spanner I still
have was a perfect fit
Bingo!
I've got to ask Barry, what's the go with those salt and pepper shakers on the wingow sill. Are they trick ones that blow up when you give them to
a friend to use 
You do know, that you wont get all those virgins
Bunnings sell the tool quite cheap... or open ended spanner and a lot of patience ! Had to replace my mixer tap twice in the past year..... not a job
that i want to do again in a hurry, worst part was laying down under the sink to access the underside of the tap.
Our mixer came with the long tube spanner, complete with T bar handle..
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I've got the same style mixer at my place. Our water has a heap of rocks and salts in it, so they only last a year or so then are toast.
I found a 50mm or so long socket-head capscrew (a bolt will do), from memory 8mm? Anyway, that and a sleeve made from 3/8" tubing and it's now
piss-easy.
I DON'T have the same cuddling-bearded-men salt shakers though.............not that there's anything wrong with that.
Why so many hoses? Mine has 2 hoses, 1 nut. I'm about to replace it because the old one has become porous. A garden sprinkler but in the kitchen.
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It seems these things aren't made to last long???
My expensive one that came with the sink used to come loose every now & then and it was only about 2 years old. I had a socket stuck on one of the
nuts... lol.. so it fairly easy to tighten... but it started leaking a few weeks ago, so I removed it and replaced it with a new cheap spare I had
bought.
This new one also started to move about so last week I tightened it tighter than before and it feels much better to turn but it started to leak water
every time You push the tap down to stop... the water comes from under the top of the tap and dribbles down onto the sink...
I want to fix the other expensive mixer but there is a grub screw holding the on/off hot cold arm..
I have tried every type of allen key and also splined bits but I can't see in there well enough to see what is there. it looks like an allen key grub
screw. You take the red/blue button out, and it is in there.
I was hoping these ceramic type tap inserts would last a long time???
it seems like they don't???
Lee
Maybe it is the newer ones Lee. I think we have replaced 2 out of our 3 in the last few years, but we put them in not long after they came out, about 20 years ago.