Jim Thompson Inscribed thus:

The urge to kill...

Just changed out a kitchen sink disposer.

Original equipment, put in when the house was built 16 years ago.

Some "master" plumber filled every threaded (plastic drain) joint with
plumbers putty :-(

Dried up after 16 years... I had to break it to get it apart :-(

...Jim Thompson

16 years ago that was pretty much the done thing. People have gotten
much better at molding threads since. Thread sealer has also got much
more sophisticated with the advent of new compounds that don't set hard
and can be cleaned off fairly easily.

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Best Regards:
Baron.