"Sacramento Dave" wrote in message
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"Don Phillipson" wrote in message
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I have to remove the U-trap below a washbasin
drain, all PVC pipe installed about 1987 -- and
am unsure how much force to exert on the
nuts at both ends of the U-trap section. Would
these nuts have been cemented with some
sort of PVC solvent or just Teflon plumber's tape?

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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

You might want to just change it out while your at it. They are amazingly
cheap. The new one should not take much more than hand tight.

Thread hijacking here- I just changed a clogged metal trap for plastic. Clog
was in the wall, but since I had it apart anyway, figured I may as well put
in new. Anyway, it all went back together, but the damn joints leak, even
using channel-locks to tighten 1/8 turn past hand-tight. I suspect an
alignment problem, but 3 assembly attempts didn't make any difference. Any
ideas? would teflon tape help? Never needed it before.

aem sends...