Tom, Another thing to check is the short piece of pipe that screws onto the big drain piece in the sink. This pipe is called the tailpiece and screws onto the drain basket with a fine thread. this fine thread should have a bit of pipe thread sealant on it and it should be screwed up tight to the drain basket. When you are tightening the slip joint nut, you are turning it in the direction that can loosen the tailpiece thread. Check to make sure this has not happened.
Another thing is to make sure that none of the pieces have rotted through with either small holes or cracks. Good luck. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dale Leavens To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 7:30 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] slip joint leak: I messed up? I am not sure I fully understand the set-up you have but most of my drains have a tail coming down from the bottom of the sink which slides into the top of the sewer, sometimes right into the top of the trap. There is a nylon ring like a compression fitting you slide over the tail just under the nut which is squeezed between the hand nut and the inside of the sewer fitting so when you screw the nut down it forces this ring down into the top of the sewer drain fitting. The ring is wedged in cross section, the thin side goes down and this forms a compression fitting around the tail of the sink. If the tail is distorted you won't get a good seal but usually that doesn't matter a lot unless there is pressure in the sink, once the trap begins to syphon that fitting will be quite forgiving. If the drainage is slow though, drips will squeeze out. Of course you prefer it to be water tight anyway but in my experience, hand tight is all you need. Here, common sizes are inch and an eighth, inch and a quarter and inch and a half, the fit should be snug. There are of course many different arrangements and in an older house often some cobbled together hybrid. Your system may be quite different, it actually sounds quite different but I might be misunderstanding it. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Fowle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 7:59 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] slip joint leak: I messed up? > Dale, > I believe the rubber gaskets in the new nuts are square in cross section, > but I'll check more carefully that could be it! > > I don't see that the flanged end of the pipe looks distorted, but again, > i'll check carefully. > > Since there is a plastic flange that fits inside the upper end of the > small > pipe which I might call a universal joint? maybe that nut > doesn't need a rubber gasket. That might be keeping the nut from > threading > far enough up on the drain end to stayput. > > I'll have along weekend with Sue off at a music workshop to fill, so may > as welll muck about with drains. > > Thanks > Tom > > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. > http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml > > Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From > Various List Members At The Following Address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ > Visit the new archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! 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