the only thing worse than being a home owner is renting.
not expecting anything that photogenic....
JR
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scott2000
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my websites got crossed when I was messaging...lol
jk
Here's your pix Scott... 
I just installed the replacement drain assembly. No surprises, the hardest part was removing the old one. They advised using some silicone caulk under the top drain rim and all I had handy was a several years old dried up tube. I cut it open and scraped out enough to make a seal.
I did notice a difference between the pivot rod in the new assembly and one I just replaced a couple weeks ago. The new one has an extra plastic bushing the mates with the pivot ball.
This completes my short list of plumbing repairs.
JR
scott2000
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Really??
I've always rolled a snake of plumber's putty and wrapped/stuck it under the drain (flange?)..As you tighten everything down, it oozes out the sides and you just pull it off and clean a bit. Some kits come with gaskets now but I never had luck with them....
Cool.... glad you got it working.....
scott2000
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Surely you looked ? it'll leak under the sink there if water gets past... I did look at the terry love forum real quick and there does seem to be a school of thought for using silicone too... I've definitely used it in shower drains just never had issues with using putty with sink drains...
I coated it with silicone caulk.... it isn't leaking.
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I am actually wondering about all the smutz down in the overflow chamber... Black mold likes damp, dark, places. Guess what that overflow area is... a black mold recreation area? The open area down in the drain provides moisture to keep the mold happy. I also notice that the white plastic P trap is black inside.
In the lasts several decades I have never had the sink overflow. I just did it on purpose one time to confirm that it works. I need to apply some mold killer into the overflow chamber, I have some out in the laundry room.
If i was buying a new sink it would not have the overflow feature.
JR
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I am actually wondering about all the smutz down in the overflow chamber... Black mold likes damp, dark, places. Guess what that overflow area is... a black mold recreation area? The open area down in the drain provides moisture to keep the mold happy. I also notice that the white plastic P trap is black inside.
In the lasts several decades I have never had the sink overflow. I just did it on purpose one time to confirm that it works. I need to apply some mold killer into the overflow chamber, I have some out in the laundry room.
If i was buying a new sink it would not have the overflow feature.
JR
scott2000
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A couple of years ago one of my friends/clients was telling me she was downstairs and water started coming out from one of the recessed lights in the ceiling. Turns out the cleaning lady upstairs had started filling the glass vessel sink, for whatever reason, and got distracted for a really long time....
That would be the only time in my life ever hearing about where a sink overflow could have been good...
But I guess people make mistakes....
Today in response to Hurricane Francine flood watch/warning I pulled out my string trimmer to clear weeds away from my culvert rain water outlet pipe. My done right trimmer would fire but wouldn't keep running. I'd seen this before, a stuck carburetor float valve. I decided to Roadkill percussive repair it. I tapped the carb bowl with a vise grip handle and that fixed it.
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I got to repurpose a one cup metal coffee filter that was too small for me to make coffee with. I had some smutz visible inside my one gallon gas can. I poured the gas through the metal coffee filter and captured the smutz (it looked like a couple dead mosquitos and whatever)...
JR
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I got to repurpose a one cup metal coffee filter that was too small for me to make coffee with. I had some smutz visible inside my one gallon gas can. I poured the gas through the metal coffee filter and captured the smutz (it looked like a couple dead mosquitos and whatever)...
JR
scott2000
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Embarrassed to say but I've always replaced little carbs since they're so cheap but after youtubing a little the last time I had issues with getting my mower going, it was exciting to see how useful a piece of wire brush was for cleaning out all the ports and jets.... never knew the bowl bolt was one of those areas either....
scott2000
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Looks like you still have power I'm guessing? Hard to tell what that storm is doing there......
I lost power sometime around 5am. I did not wake up until hours later.
Just over 2" of rain and still gusty winds. I was outside checking on fallen limbs and the wind picked up again so I moved inside, out from under all the trees.
Wind advisory until 7PM but it looks like we dodged the flood advisory.
JR
PS: I bought a replacement carb for the string trimmer last time it screwed up but the percussive "roadkill" repair was faster and easier. If it keeps screwing up I will swap in the new carb that is just sitting in a box in my shop.
scott2000
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must be nice having that metal roof...I was outside checking on fallen limbs and the wind picked up again so I moved inside, out from under all the trees.
I'd feel safer in your home than this straw....at least we're block on the bottom....with messed up crumbly mortar joints from the incompetent contractors.....
I don't know that the metal roof adds much structural integrity, but at least the shingles won't blow off in the wind.
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Some drama associated with the power outage. I had to reset two clocks. And my slow cooker got stupid. Apparently the MCU is always on when the cooker is plugged in. The brief power interruption apparently latched it up. Display was dark and buttons unresponsive.
The hack to reboot it that I discovered by trial and error, is to hold one of the front panel buttons depressed before plugging it in. That brought it back to life.
JR
boji
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I'm having a similar issue. I bleached my kitchen sink and it dried out the sealant between the drain flange and sink. I think I'll do the same, take it apart and add some silicone.
I wasn't planning on doing yardwork but some weeds in my rain ditch were starting to look like small trees. Rather than climb down into the ditch I tried to use my branch pole pruner. BUT the cord was frayed and kept getting tangled up in pulley axel.
I decided to restring it with a length of twine I had handy. After restringing it I squeezed the pulley bracket tighter around the pulley so the pull cord would be forced to stay on the pulley and not get frayed on the pulley axel.
It worked better than it has for years.
[edit- I forgot to mention that fixing the pole pruner with twine that I already had on hand was a "packrat victory". /edit]
JR
I decided to restring it with a length of twine I had handy. After restringing it I squeezed the pulley bracket tighter around the pulley so the pull cord would be forced to stay on the pulley and not get frayed on the pulley axel.
It worked better than it has for years.
[edit- I forgot to mention that fixing the pole pruner with twine that I already had on hand was a "packrat victory". /edit]
JR
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Youngwhisk
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My father gave us a stand up freezer when we got married in 1983. That freezer died 2 weeks ago. It never had any work done to it at all. I suspect that the new one won’t last that long, but then it likely won't have to.
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living sounds
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Wow, electrical energy must be very cheap where you live. The difference in energy consumption between an old and a new one would have payed for the latter after 3-4 years at most over here. I love my vintage studio gear, but newer is better with these devices.
I don't watch electricity prices that closely while I braced for cost increases after they abandoned the "clean (cough) coal" power plant several years ago, that has never run using coal. It's been using NG for years. The good news is that NG is plentiful and cost effective, but we will never recover the sunk cost for the very expensive and still experimental clean-coal technology, that didn't pay off.
My utility sends me monthly nudges comparing my current to past energy consumption. After I installed my first heat pump several years ago my nudges were mostly about how much less energy I was using. My (cheap) house was built using resistance in-wall heaters, with an old less efficient thru-wall air conditioner. The heat pump was a significant improvement all around. It mostly handled all but the hottest/coldest temperature extremes.
This spring I added a second heat pump. This should save me money while heating compared to the resistance baseboard electric heat I used to warm my back bedroom. But first this summer the added extra air conditioning actually increased my energy consumption slightly during the summer heat, but it kept the home cool even on the hottest days.
Now that the weather has shifted from needing cooling to warming I am looking forward to realizing savings from heat pump only home heating.
This month I got my first good energy usage nudge suggesting 3.5% less energy consumption than same month last year. This could be a quirk of weather but I expect to see significant benefit as the weather turns colder.
JR
PS; I remain alert to appliance efficiency. I briefly considered heat pump based clothes dryers. I talked to my local appliance repair guy and has not seen any in use locally (MS is not wealthy).
