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Today I got a leaking strainer basket. It's leaking from right here. It's cracked and
leaking. Let me show you how to replace one of these. I'm going to using a little bit
different style to replace it with. I just want to make sure the profile is close enough
to work in length and this appears that it will be. It's going to come up a little bit
but we should have enough with the slip joint plumbing to be able to adjust it and make
it fit.
I'm removing the old one. I've got these three screws here and this loosens the top bracket.
This presses the gasket against the sink basin. Let's pull all this up. Move our disposal
cord out of the way here. OK. All right. And then we're going to remove the bottom out
of here. Top portion. OK. And we still got our washer in there which is fine because
we'll need it for the new one. So now it's just a matter of removing all this here. OK.
OK. Well, one way to get it off. All right. OK.
Anyway, it is a good idea to wear gloves especially when working with the plumber's putty as the
plumber's putty can be kind of stinky. This way when you go to eat lunch, your sandwich
doesn't wind up tasting like plumber's putty because I could tell you it's not a good taste.
This part should unscrew. Now the plumber's putty is falling down. OK. Nasty stuff. And
some more.
There we go. Separated that. That just sat under cup. Man is that nasty or what? All
right. So now we just push the old one out.
Now in our new kit, we want to separate of all this portion. And it does have handy instructions
one the bottom anyway. And this trim plate and the gasket go on the bottom portion, so
the top portion just passes through and seats. And I'll undo all this twisty tie to pull
out the strainer basket and get this thing going here. And it's got its own collar nut.
For the collar nut portion, this and this here, and slide the slip joint plumbing up
and off out here so that we can replace this collar nut with this one here. OK. This little
piece goes inside the top here and this piece slides on to the bottom. And then this part
slides on here like so. And now it's ready for assembly, but we don't want to get too
crazy with it until we're ready there, OK. The rest of it is on the bottom here. What
we can do is go ahead and get this ready-- is this seal plate and the gasket goes on
the bottom here. So now we're ready and we'll go up top.
OK, up top here we got our draining opening. And again here's our new basket. OK and what
we want to do is put plumber's putty around the inside here. First we'll clean this off
so we have a nice clean area to meet here. Let me get my gloves going here because this
plumber's putty is smelly stuff. If you got any old junky stuff it's probably a good idea
to go ahead and get rid of the contaminant stuff here. We want nice fresh, clean plumber's
putty. What you want to do is roll it like Play-Doh in a circle. And we want to make
a circle all the way around this here and kind of press it into place so that there
is not going to be any chance of any spot getting missed because once this presses into
place it's going to squeeze everything out and seal between the two. This metal and the
plastic. Now that that's in place, we don't want to get any on the threads here-- on any
of these threads. We just want to seat like so.
So now we're ready on the bottom portion, and what you need is a screwdriver or something
that you can stick down in the slot there to keep it from turning. I'm going to use
my Leatherman because it's got a bigger screwdriver-- fatter screwdriver than my screwdriver. So
anyway, a nice big screwdriver here. I'll just insert that in a slot and use that to
keep it from turning.
Now I'll come back to the bottom. We already got our trim plate and gasket here and ring
ready to go here. So we slide these up to the top and then just carefully thread this
on making sure it's not cross threaded and then just spin it into place. Up top it's
going to start to squeeze the plumber's putty out as we tighten this down. And then we just
tighten it securely, this quarter turn. That's tight. Make sure this is on there. And you
ought to look at your gasket to try and make sure it's pretty much even all the way around.
There we go. OK. Now I'll get my Leatherman back.
Now on the bottom portion, you're going to slide this up to meet, and you can see this
part is too short. It's not going to reach all the way. We'll tighten this portion on.
And this we'll just hand tighten it. It's nice and [INAUDIBLE]. Then on the bottom,
that's what we're going to have to do-- is loosen this portion here and hopefully this
has enough room to slide up a bit more onto here. Just loosen this and this is usually
hand tightened. It looks like someone's tightened it a little bit more. Going to loosen this
up. This particular fitting up top has a beveled washer where as this had a flat washer like
this. Where it's got different types of washer. This particular nut here that I'm twisting
has the washer built into itself. But anyway you can see we have enough room now to slide
this portion up more. So we'll use this down at the bottom and we can tighten it down here
and now we'll have enough. Our pipe will be extended enough. Again always take care not
to get cross threaded. This is just difficult slip joint plumbing and it generally only
needs to be hand tightened. OK. There we go.
OK, so we got everything hand tightened now, and now we're ready to leak test it. But before
we do that what we want to do is come up here and just remove any of the excess putty from
the top here. We're just going to pull this out all the way around. And as long as this
is clean, we can put it back in our plumber's putty bucket. If it's got any kind of contaminants
or anything just throw it away. It'll be better off. And if there's any doubt, just throw
it away. Plumber's putty is only like $1.00, $1.15 for little bucket so no biggie.
So before I make it perfect I'm going to go ahead and just run the water and leak test
it here. Look for any leaks down below. And at this point it's a good point to go ahead
and field test it. Your hand's a little more sensitive than just doing it by eye. Sometimes
you can't see that well. All right and it seems to be holding good, so now what we want
to do is pressure test it. And the way we pressure test it is to put our sink basket
in or plunger. And this particular model actually came with its own sink drainer basket. I guess
it's holding the water so enough for the pressure test. We'll fill it up about a quarter to
half way. Somewhere around there. And then go ahead and pull the plug while checking
down below. I'm going to go ahead and pull the plug and that'll force the water through
a lot faster. And it appears that we're good here. No leaks. Nothing dripping.
Now we're going to go ahead and clean it up up here. We'll go ahead and pull all the blue
trim off. A nice, shiny brand-new deal here. And then we want to cleanup all this excess
plumber's putty. So we want it to just do its job but be invisible. And we don't want
it to get in anybody's rag or anything like that when they're going to clean so I'll just
take my screwdriver and rotate it around the inside lip, just to take off all that excess
stuff here. All right.
And then, now we'll go ahead and pressure test it again. And this time I'll use the
actual strainer that came with the basket. And this just goes in only in one way, and
usually it sits like this and you get most of your food chunks out. And if you want to
plug the drain just turn it in like so. And now we're going to go ahead and fill it again
and retest it. And as it fills with water, we're going to check all around here and all
down here to make sure that we don't have any leaks showing up. You'd rather do this
once then have to come back and do it again. That's a mess with the wet cabinets and all.
all set there. Job complete. That's how you replace a sink basket. Good to go. Nice and
shiny. Nice and new. All set.
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