Replacement faucet handle kit

In combination a replacement faucet handle for replacing an original faucet handle, a skirt member having an opening therein, a plurality of adapters each having a first end portion adapted to be connected to the replacement faucet handle, a second end portion adapted to be connected to an upper end portion of a faucet valve stem, and an outwardly projecting flange between the first end portion and the second end portion of the adapter, and means permitting securement of the replacement faucet handle and a selected one of the adapters to the upper end portion of the faucet valve stem on which the original faucet handle has been mounted at a predetermined level, the replacement faucet handle having an underface, a concavity in said underface of the handle, and a recess provided in said concavity in said underface of the handle, the first end portions of the adapters being substantially identical and each being of non-circular, transverse cross-sectional configuration complementary to the transverse cross-sectional configuration of the recess in the handle, and the second end portion of each adapter having a bore of non-circular transverse cross-sectional configuration, with the second end portion of each adapter differing from the second end portion of each remaining adapter with respect to at least one characteristic selected from the group of characteristics consisting of the length thereof, the length of the bore therein, and the transverse cross-sectional dimensions of the bore therein, the length and transverse cross-sectional configuration and dimensions of the bore in the second end portion of said selected one of the adapters being complementary to the length and transverse cross-sectional configuration and dimensions of the upper end portion of the faucet valve stem, whereby said selected one of the adapters is adapted to be non-rotatably mounted on the upper end portion of the faucet valve stem by disposing the upper end portion of said faucet valve stem within said bore in the second end portion of said selected one of the adapters, and the replacement faucet handle is adapted to be non-rotatably mounted on said selected one of the adapters by disposing only the first end portion of said selected one of the adapters through the opening in the skirt member and within the recess in the replacement faucet handle, with the skirt member disposed within the concavity in the underface of the handle, the replacement faucet handle and said selected one of the adapters being securable to the upper end portion of the faucet valve stem with the skirt member securely clamped in the concavity in the underface of the replacement faucet handle by the outwardly projecting flange of said selected one of the adapters, wherein the length of said second end portion of said selected adapter is such that when the replacement faucet handle and said selected adapter are secured to the upper end portion of the faucet valve stem the replacement faucet handle is positioned at substantially said predetermined level at which the original faucet handle has been mounted on the upper end portion of the faucet valve stem.