Yatta
Man, I just fixed my garbage disposal. This seems like a trivial accomplishment, until you realize this was the disposal from hell. 99.99% of disposals known to man have a little connecter underneath, into which you can put a special 6-sided tool and manually run the disposal in reverse to fix any jams. I say 99.99% but the two "experts" I talked to claim the number is 100%, and had never heard of a disposal without such a connector.
At any rate, mine didn't have that connector. How do you run reverse when there is no reverse mode? After 2 weeks of frustration, I've learned that you switch to truly manual reverse, which involves removing the "splash guard" (like the sneeze shield at a buffet restaurant, it's one of those things you wish you didn't know the term for). Then you clear the gunk and other debris from the disposal, then... and this is where it gets bizarre... you use a broom handle as a lever to manually reverse the disposal teeth.
And voila, now my circa 1990 disposal works as good as new. No repairman, no new disposal. I feel all accomplished, even though this may have been a trivial feat of appliance repair (but since the two appliance "experts" didn't know this could be done, I assume it might be something rather non-trivial). 2 weeks without a disposal really sucks, man. It's times like this I almost wish I lived in an apartment with a super who'd just fix everything, but then again, that probably isn't very reliable, and there is that sense of accomplishment when you just fix something on your own.
Now I get to go back to not thinking at all about how or why a disposal works. Yay!!!
At any rate, mine didn't have that connector. How do you run reverse when there is no reverse mode? After 2 weeks of frustration, I've learned that you switch to truly manual reverse, which involves removing the "splash guard" (like the sneeze shield at a buffet restaurant, it's one of those things you wish you didn't know the term for). Then you clear the gunk and other debris from the disposal, then... and this is where it gets bizarre... you use a broom handle as a lever to manually reverse the disposal teeth.
And voila, now my circa 1990 disposal works as good as new. No repairman, no new disposal. I feel all accomplished, even though this may have been a trivial feat of appliance repair (but since the two appliance "experts" didn't know this could be done, I assume it might be something rather non-trivial). 2 weeks without a disposal really sucks, man. It's times like this I almost wish I lived in an apartment with a super who'd just fix everything, but then again, that probably isn't very reliable, and there is that sense of accomplishment when you just fix something on your own.
Now I get to go back to not thinking at all about how or why a disposal works. Yay!!!