This post doesn’t apply to as many people as I thought it would. I was absent from blogland on Monday, but I did manage to catch up, at least partly. Still, I had written what I thought was a cute one-liner (as long as you consider a poem with no punctuation to be one line), and I still wanted to use it.
If I missed your blog on Monday
The reason isn't what you think
During blogging time on Monday
I was under the kitchen sink.
That’s the sad truth. We have a garbage disposer (we used to call them disposals, but whatever). We’ve had them before, and I’ve installed all of them. With every unit up until this last one, the part that sticks through the sink (basket strainer base) was metal. On this unit, bought during the take-what-you-could-get days of supply chain shortages due to Covid, that part is plastic. The vibrations during operation caused the plastic nut beneath the sink to loosen. That caused the sink to leak.
On Monday, I crawled under the sink and removed the disposer. Then I removed the basket strainer. I cleaned it, took it and my wallet to the hardware store, conversed with the owner and returned home with an improved basket strainer gasket. That plus some thread tape should keep the strainer from becoming loose in the future. We’ll see.
If you’re wondering why I didn’t just tighten the nut a little tighter, I have another simple poem.
When plumbing things are made of plastic
Over tighten if you dare
Just beyond the edge of elastic
Disaster flows from your repair
That’s my story
This bit of silliness is offered for One-Liner Wednesday, by Linda G. Hill
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