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The majority of that leak appears to be from the blue arrow tap body seal. Tightening that is unlikely to help.
The gland nut may be leaking slightly, but that would be evident between the spindle and rounded off nut. Red arrow.
With lead pipes, they could also end up leaking if you go swinging a wrench too hard. Also stopcock is likely to be old imperial sized if it goes pear shaped.
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Managed to pop down to Screwfix last Nighy to grab some mole grips. It was all in the gland nut it seems, just had to pack it out with PTFE and its all nice and dry now. Felt extremely accomplished!
But yeah, only slight note that we've got a lead supply pipe - something to think about in the future, maybe before we try looking at getting the garden looking good.
seager
Got a leaky stopcock under the kitchen (oo-er) (vid attached).
Looks like the... gland nut(?) isn't a nut so much as a circle. Reckon some molegrips would do it to tighten? I've seen some YouTube answers say to pack under the gland nut with some PTFE tape.