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Default How do you snake a kitchen sink & how to remove a corroded steelnipple when only 1/4" sticks out?

On Apr 1, 11:00*am, wrote:
On Sunday, March 31, 2013 11:38:11 PM UTC-4, Danny D. wrote:
But, how does one SNAKE a kitchen sink?


So you can't snake the ****ing kitchen sink. You made your point. Whoever told you to do it ****ing misspoke. Get over it.

For the record, NOT ALL kitchen sinks have garbage disposals and ****ing eastern bloc communist plumbing cages hidden in the other drain.

And, WHAT TOOL will spin off a nipple when you only have 1/4" sticking
out?


Don't even try. You will break off the drain pipe behind the wall or below the floor. Open the wall and figure out what's back there.

If it's threaded in you may then be able to collapse the nipple by crushing it with a pair of chan-nel-lock pliers and peel it out of the threads of the main drain stack.


I look on all this as silly. Just get a new female pipe to screw onto
the nipple sticking out of the wall. LOTS of silicon rubber on the
threads and smeared liberally on the outside of the pipe should be
waterproof. To make sure that none of the silicon rubber gets inside
the pipe, just shove a rag back and forth inside the pipe before the
rubber sets up. Unless someone screws around with the drain again,
the silicone rubbber should work just fine. And, it will make it easy
to reopen if it is ever necessaary.