Adapters for Danco 46004 Cross-Arm Faucet Handle

What if you turned the faucet handle of your shower, but nothing happened?

This happened to me.

It looked to me like the inside of the plastic handle where it attaches to the faucet stem stripped.

The obvious (to me) solution was to take the faucet to the guy at the plumbing supply store and buy a replacement.

“What is this?” is not something you want to hear in that situation.

So I purchased a "universal" replacement, the Danco 46004 Cross-Arm Faucent Handle, which includes "7 plastic adapters and 1 metal adapter to fit most faucet brands".

But not mine. The provided adapters were all too big.

So I reverse engineered the adapter.

The things provided here all match the Danco adapters externally but the inside hole is a simple cylindrical shape (with a chamfer for mounting) that press fits onto the stem.

The number indicates ten times the radius of the inner cylindrical hole.

There are multiples because I wasn't sure what tolerance would work.

Print instructions

I printed these out of PLA with 100% infill and they worked. Not sure what would happen with a softer and / or harder plastic.

Post-Printing

Step 1

Print a series of adapters and mark them with their size so that you can tell them apart.

Note: If I were to do this again, I would imprint this information on each adapter, but I didn't know how to to that when I created this thing back in 2017 and, with my shower not working, I was in a bit of a rush.  I used an Ultra Fine Sharpie.

Step 2

Find the smallest adapter that you can fit on the stem by hand.

Step 3

Go 2 sizes smaller (I figured this out the hard way) and use the screw that goes into the center hole of the stem to press it onto the stem.

I found that I had to use several different lengths of screw and the adapters that come with the product as shims to accomplish this.

And plenty of "elbow grease".

Step 4

Take a shower :-)