How do you 'unstick' a seized Garbage Disposal Unit?
On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 09:20:27 -0700, RobertMacy
wrote:
On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 00:56:33 -0700, micky wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:52:24 -0700, RobertMacy
wrote:
Have an Insinkerator(sp?) garbage disposal unit in the kitchen.
You spelled it right.
90% of the volume of other brands are made by them too.
If you have to replace it, a small to medium (or big?) floor jack is a
great way to lift it up while you're turning it like a glass jar turning
into its lid.
Didn't know they were so heavy/awkward.
It might be that I'm a weakling, seriously. Although I don't think so,
I don't have any comparisons. Or that it's just hard to be outside the
cabinet reaching one's arms forward to lift. Or that I needed three
hands, Or that I was having a strangely hard time getting it in place
to twist it**, but the longer I was holding it up, the harder it got.
So I took a break for 10 minutes and told myself, Up and Twist, no
wasting time. But that didn't work either. So, the front half of
the jack went under the sink and I don't remember what I did with the
rear half. It rested on something or the middle of the jack rested on
the edge of the cabinet, and I balanced the disposal with one hand and
raised the jack with the other, and it was all very easy.
I may have done it one more time somewhere the same way, and again,
easy.
**even though I noitced which way the label pointed. Heck, maybe that
was my mistake, Maybe they had changed the position of the label, though
I don' tthink so.
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