Yes, I did make the plate. The material came from Lowe's, I purchased it as an "access door" intended for a house cubby hole, etc, and cut it down to size. The plastic worked real well, as it is thick enough to be sturdy, but very easy to cut/smooth/etc.
I know the stock plate that sticks out a couple inches is used by default in seemingly all RVs to provide ample room behind the faucet for the threaded connections, particularly in applications where the faucet is mounted on a side wall of the shower. However, on a corner application shown above, I never could see why they "must" use that type of plate, when there is plenty of room behind the faucet. Just "ease of availability" of that particular part when building I'm sure, which I understand. However, for me, there was no way I was going to leave that plate/stock faucet sticking so far out.
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2008 F150
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