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The old faucet; note the broken hot-water tap.

After removing the old fauctet; preparing the sink for the new system.

After a cursory examination I found the washer that had failed; but it was no use since I couldn't re-insert the tap into the assembly.  I had to buy a new one.

This morning I swung by The Home Depot and found a nice

New faucet; not fully hooked up just yet so it's still a mess.

looking single-handle faucter with a pull-out sprayer.  This evening I took some pliers to the old faucet and managed to remove it.  Installation of the new faucet has so far been straight-forward.  But I need to wait until tomorrow to purchase two new supply lines from the local hardware store to finish

See how nicely it works? And it barely leaks at all.

attaching both hot and cold water lines.

Now it's tomorrow. I've procured two 20" supply lines and installed them (which was extremely trivial requiring no sweating or tape) and everything is working just fine.  I noticed no leaks (although the hot water shut-off valve does generate a drop when it's manipulated;

And since I was down there, I decided to replace the water filter that was two months over its limit.

this will need replacing at some point).  It looks like another job well done.  I'll clean up the mess tomorrow.

(And since I was down there, I decided to replace the filter in my water filtration tap since it was supposed to have been done two months ago and, for some reason, wasn't.)

 American Standard   Very similar to this model, though mine is chrome.