"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote in message
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Definitely not cast, it has a matte silver finish.

I mis-wrote that. I meant 'galvanized iron'. I don't even know where
that came from... I haven't seen a cast drain in 20 years (around these
parts, they rot out in about 10). You said it was a galvanized iron
tailpiece.

Iron pipe is wrenchable without flats, especially at the low torque
required to tighten one of those drains.

LLoyd


What I expected to have flats or at least nubs was the bottom half of the
drain body. It looks like the bottom of a smooth bowl. The galvanized pipe
is just a pipe that is caulked into the drain body at the top and threaded
into an elbow at the bottom. And yes, of course iron pipe is wrenchable.