# Help me figure out how to replace my showerhead

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-how-to-replace-my-showerhead/561414>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 21, 2010, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-how-to-replace-my-showerhead/561414 "2010-11-21T04:45:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Terry\_Kennedy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@Terry\_Kennedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terry_Kennedy)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-how-to-replace-my-showerhead/561414/21 "2010-11-22T06:28:49Z")

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> [@jayjay](#):
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> Our showerhead is old. Really old. The arm has a ball joint, the showerhead is plastic…

\<nitpick\>If it is plastic, it is **not** really old. I have plumbing that pre-dates Unified threads. It is probably Sellers thread, but since it is hand-cut it is very hard to tell. Try getting _anything_ you buy today to fit on that. I finally wound up using gooseneck Teledyne shower heads and cutting new internal threads on the end of the gooseneck.\</nitpick\>

Plumbers and health people needn’t tell me of the dangers of old lead and cast iron pipes - everything involved with drinking water (and a lot more) has been replaced with modern copper. I’m not about to rip into walls of irreplaceable 1920’s “subway” tile to change the shower and toilet pipes if I don’t absolutely have to.

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