Camille used the master bath shower for the first time last night, and the faucet handle fell apart in her hand. She told me she out it back together, and she was worried she had cross-threaded it.
It was indeed cross-threaded, but not by her. Someone else had tried to force it on, so I had to recreate the threads with a file and remount it in the right direction (it was also on upside down).
The shower head was also leaking from several places, so I replaced the shower head. In the instructions, in bold print: “DO NOT USE TEFLON TAPE.”
I mounted the new head, and turned it on. Hmmm. A trickle from the top near the threads. I went out to the garage, got my teflon tape. I wound a layer on the pipe coming out of the wall, remounted the head, and voila! NO LEAK.
And people wonder why I am disinclined to follow instructions.