Standard Faucet Aerator Thread Size

Typical kitchen faucets use either a male or female threaded aerator.

Standard faucet aerator thread size.

Small size 13 16 inch diameter. What are the standard thread sizes used in tap aerators. Faucet aerators have been used by orignal equipment manufacturers since 2006. Instead the number simply indicates that the aerator demonstrate s compliance with the applicable asme standard source.

The easiest way to do so is by grabbing some spare change. Male aerators have the threads on the outside female aerators have threads on the inside. Kitchen faucets both the inside and outside of the faucet tip are threaded to make it possible to screw on aerators hose adapters and so forth. Small 13 16 inch diameter.

Some faucets use a smaller tom thumb metric size aerator which is m18x1 male threaded or m16x1 female threaded. Aerator key moen aerator 27 threads per inch faucet aerators watersense labeled faucet aerators niagara conservation supply pipe outdoor spigot replacement parts. The inside thread of the faucet is usually 55 64 inch 27 threads per inch and the exterior male thread is 15 16 inch 27 tpi. Note that of the 193 nations recognised by the un there are still one or two that still cling to non standard sizes based on the size of their current or some previous king s thumb or something similar.

For cache aerators hidden aerators 2 determine if you need male or female if you need a housing nrg carries dual threaded aerators that will fit both male female standard size faucets. You ll compare these coins to the size of the threaded end of your existing aerator or the outlet of the faucet spout itself. Medium size 55 64 inch diameter aerator. Manufacturers must print a112 18 1m on every aerator in the us so the number doesn t say anything about the size style or brand of your aerator.

Typical regular size for a faucet aerator is 15 16 male threaded or 55 64 female threaded while junior size is 13 16 male threaded or 3 4 female threaded. In most modern u s. New resources group offers aerators in a variety of stream types and flow rates to suit different applications. Removal and installation is easy with the cache reg.

3 choose stream type and flow rate. A regular standard size aerator aka m24 x 1 thread male or m22 x 1 thread female will be roughly the diameter of a quarter. A112 18 1m can t help you find a replacement aerator but we can. The cache faucet aerator threads directly and disappears into the faucet spout making it vandal proof by design.

A quarter nickel and dime. Neoperl 13 0000 2 standard flow cache perlator hc aerator tom thumb size 2 2 gpm red dome honeycomb screen aerated stream m16 5 x 1 threads plastic 0 591 height pack of 6 3 5 out of 5 stars 6. Large 15 16 inch diameter.