"Steve B" wrote in
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Steve B wrote:
"jeff_wisnia" wrote


Has anyone else encountered a cracked PVC housing on one of those
cheapie disposals? I have no direct knowledge of anyone putting
something like a rock into it and running the disposal for a while
so the rock kept whacking the housing, but you never know.

Jeff


ANY hard object, or even an small piece can blow out a hole or make
a crack in the outer housing, no matter how much you watch what you
put in there. I've replaced two with dime sized holes blown in them,
and never did see the offending particle.

Steve

I remember from my yoot, maybe around 1950, going to a home show with
my folks and watching a salesman demo a garbage disposer on a display
table.

There was no water used, but the sales guy kept dropping glass
marbles into the running disposer and a few seconds later powdered
glass came out of the discharge tube.

Undoubtedly it was NOT a machine with a PVC upper housing back then.
G

Jeff

In my yoot, occasionally my Dad would put a small beer bottle down it.
He said it cleaned off the blades. It always went down. He then put
a whole lemon in there, and it took longer to eat the lemon.

Steve

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I hope my youngin remember that dad loaded up the disposal with ice cubes
to clean it.

If not, will remember that I had a fish tank. When they expired or it was
inevitable, they went in the "Pet Cemetery". I recall a couple of large
fish gave me trouble. The disposal won in the end.