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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • Those crappy shut-off valves with the plastic oval handle; the plastic gets brittle and shatters in your hand (especially if the valve is a bit stuck so you force it) and now you can’t turn the valve and your faucet has catastrophically failed so it’s urgent and the valve can still be operated with a flathead.

    That said, all the ones I’ve seen use a Phillips screw to hold the handle on and there’s a flat section behind the handle you can put a wrench on to turn the valve, but maybe there’s some that need a flathead.