On 12/23/2014 7:45 AM, Doug Miller wrote:
Martin Eastburn wrote in news:hq6mw.427817$O76.426475
@fx15.iad:

Keep egg shells out of most [disposers]. The thin shell jams the spinning cutter.

Nonsense. Running egg shells down a garbage disposer is one of the classic methods of
cleaning them (the others being coffee grounds, ice cubes, and orange peels).

An eggshell is far too fragile to jam a disposer.

Unless you're dumping ostrich eggs in your disposer, maybe...

Hum - my 3HP auto reversing unit states that egg shells can slip
along the edge of the spinning disk and do a jam fit.

I've seen one that was done that way and a 15" wrench onto the Allen
just bent the Allen wrench. It is akin to a dime in a door jam - maybe
a penny. Can't open the door since it needs to move in a radius and is
stopped.

Martin