With the faucet shut off, take the handle off and under it is a nut around the stem. There is either an O ring under the nut, a fiber washer or stem packing depending on what type of faucet it is. Replace which ever it has and that should fix it. If your faucet is a screw type, the handle turns several time when opening it, you can probably take the nut off, wrap two or three wraps of stem packing around the stem, clockwise looking down on it and replace the nut and tighten. This will compress the packing around the stem without replacing the cone washer in the nut or all of the old packing.
To replace the sink drain washer in your kitchen sink, you will need to first turn off the water supply to the sink. Then, use a wrench to loosen the nut holding the drain pipe in place. Once the nut is removed, you can take out the old washer and replace it with a new one. Finally, reattach the drain pipe and tighten the nut securely. Turn the water supply back on and check for any leaks.
It seems like if the nut went on first there'd be nothing to keep the washer on. Anyway, the the washer goes on a bolt before the nut.
A lock nut should go on a bolt before a washer or the nut.
the base of a cone is a circle you dumb nut
The correct order for installing a lock washer is to place it between the nut and the surface being fastened, with the teeth of the lock washer facing towards the nut.
To fix a leaking washer valve in your plumbing system, first turn off the water supply to the valve. Next, use a wrench to loosen the nut connecting the valve to the pipe. Replace the washer inside the valve with a new one, then reassemble the valve and tighten the nut. Turn the water supply back on and check for leaks.
Pine nut or pine cone.
Its called a Belleville spring/washer and it works by pressure. The washer is curved and when the nut is tightened down against it, the washer flattens out. But due to the heat treated memory of the metal, it wants to remain curved and pushes back against the nut which creates a locking effect between the threads on the nut and the threads on the bolt.
Spring washer - is used to keep the nut from loosening due to vibration by Appling pressure between the bolt and nut to stop it from undoing
Jack up car, take off front wheel. Remove grease cap from center hub. Remove the large center nut, which really looks like a washer with 2 slots. Look carefully at nut/washer you will see a dimple in washer going into the axle shaft, you must take a drift and tap that back out so nut/washer will unscrew. Now here is what nobody will tell you : those nuts/washers will shatter like glass if you hit it to hard or wrong, i would get 2 of them { one for each side } before you start this project. After you get nut/washer unscrewed the hub will just slide off. Another tip the grease/dirt seal ,get 2 of them while you get the nut/washers, you will thank me later, trust me . Then either replace wheel bearings or clean and repack them. Then reverse procedure to put back together.
typically a washer pump breaks. Replace it. How to replace a washer pump?