[GH85Carrera]

Back at my old bachelor pad house that was built in 1950, the plumbing was a challenge as nothing was standard to the modern stuff. My bathtub had two separate knobs like your sink, and it was a fixture with the knobs 14 inches apart. The hot water side started leaking, and it would not shut off.

I had to shut the water off at the street, and cut a hole in the sheetrock in the dining room to get to the back of the bathtub to remove the entire fixture. This was before the big box store era, so I went to the local hardware and lumber yard store. They had a group of retired tradesmen that would sit around and dring free coffee and eat donuts and chat. There were the brain trust I loved to talk to. I walked in with my fixture, and one of the guys that was a retired plumber said something like, wow, a model 1522 faucet, I haven't see one of those in a while. We ended up going down the street a mile or so to his house and to the garage, which was his faucet repair shop. He dissembled it, and put in new packing glands, o-rings and removed all the lime buildup. He said put this putty here and here, and hook it all back up. It worked fine until I sold the house many years later.

And that bathroom had a pink bathtub, toilet, and lavatory with green tile walls. Good old Pink and Green bathrooms.

The point is the plumbers putty was what worked and if things fit right the putty will last for many years, and be easy to take apart next time.