wow tom ouch. i would fix it with a short piece of hose and a clamp or 2 or supprise the one who shall be obeyed with a new sink grin. jim At 10:21 PM 10/17/2006, you wrote:
>so I tried to clear a kitchen double sink drain with a >plunger,it's worked in the past, and noticed a couple days later >water all over the floor! > >We had a large plastic drawer under the sink in the cupboard for >cleaning stuff, and that had filled up with drain water before >spilling over so we'd notice. So we hadn't needed cleaning stuff >in the meantime. > >So we drug it all out, tossed the stuff that was soaked, mopped, >mopped and mopped and got it more or less dry. > >then we remembered we have at least two wet dry vacuums which >might just have made things easier? <groan> > >I found a slip joint nut at the end of the drain just below the >sink that had split. > >so I took the thing apart and took the little 2 inch long >connector piece with two nuts on it, and a little plastic flange >that presumably is a washer between the drain end and the flange >of the pipe and went down to our nice old ace hardware store. > >I got four new nuts knowing how things go. Came in little >plastic packages with rubber washers and all. Only a buck and a >half each, cheap! > >got home this evening after a day of 400 emails and downloads and >meetings and so on, and put things back together. I was so, so >carefull not to cross thread the nuts. I tightened up on the >upper nut that's against the drain first, cause the lower one is >the one that is a real "slip" joint. > >got it all fairly tight and put a pair of slip joint pliers on it >just to get it firm, not too hard. > >Drip, drip, drip, and blasphemy! > >I was stamping around wondering what was wrong, and hit something >small with my large blind foot. > >It was the little plastic flange that was supposed to go on top >of the pipe, against the drain end. > > >took it all apart, it isn't really that hard, and put the flange >in. > >Put it back together and when tightening up the upper nut, it >popped loose just as it was tight. > >More speaking to spirits of the sewer in their language! > >wondered if I'd stripped the top nut somehow so took it all apart >again and replaced the upper nut. > >Put it all back again, so, so, so carefully! > >Drip,drip, drip! > >Well onlyh with a heavy flow of water. > >So I guess I may have stripped the threads on the end of the >drain its self. That takes a huge rench, bigger than i believe >is my largest crescent. > >And what happens when you undo that huge nut that's been there >for over 30 years? > >Other stuff will undoubtedly bust, I just know it. > >So, oh wise and wonderfull handy persons, where did I go wrong? > >Besides using too much force on a 30 yeaar old sink wwith a >plunger? > >Now be nice, tell me I didn't mess up, it was just age. > >Like how I'm falling apart after sixty! >It's just age. >that's what my doc says when I complain about sstuff that annoys >me, "it's just age." > > >sorry its so long, my wife isn't here to hear me speaking nasty >things so I just had to go off. > >Tom > > > > > > >Net-Tamer V 1.13 Beta - Registered > > >To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html >or >ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > >The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. >http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > >The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. >http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml > >Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From >Various List Members At The Following Address: >http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ >Visit the new archives page at the following address >http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ >For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man >list just send a blank message to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Yahoo! 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