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Is it OK to use SO portable cable to connect from a Main Panel to a new Sub-panel?
Or do you have to use a non-flexible conduit?

In the 'all's well that ends well' category - I made out OK. I replaced the body of the unit - I needed the soldering practice - and sure enough the diverter valve works fine.
The unit works so...

Yes, as I mentioned, I bought a complete unit a couple of years ago but only used the spindle and external pieces, not the cap assembly or the body (with its diverter valve).
The colors match...

Thanks for the reminder.
Just to make sure, I tried again - with what I think was more than sufficient grease and turning as I the valve in (the valve does not go in easily at first but after the...

Unfortunately, I wrote too quickly.

It took a while and the help of some wd40 to manage to extract the old diverter valve, which had cracked and I'm not sure what shape the o-ring was in.

A...

What kind of memory card do you have?
If its an 'sd' there may be a small 'lock' tab on the side of the card that you need to move to the unlocked position

Well, all I can say is 'thanks guys' - although the parts diagram implied that the diverter spindle was a replaceable part it didn't give any directions for removing the old spindle and so I was...