Dammit. At least the water is not longer opaque, and the greasy yellow scum has subsided - time to get out the channellock wrench and see what's clogged.
Damn. Today is Wednesday which is Old/Unemployed-Fart Practice down at the range. Saturday is a Practice Match, and Sunday is the club's John C. Garand Match. I need to practice my off-hand/curls with the M1 but don't have any .30-06 ammo for it - just boxes and boxes of brass. Obviously I need to get back to the reloading bench, I even have about 1000 primers from before the mad rush on components.
UPDATE: This unit was built a bit over 20-years ago and has cast-iron from the street up to the interior connections, with PVC afterwards. It's fairly easy to work-on if you're a contortionist.
The double-sink's drain to the disposal is clear, the main outflow pipe looks ok (who the hell knows?), and the air-vent to the dishwasher was clear (except I could blow back into the dishwasher - so maybe it needs either a loop in the line or a backflow preventer. I think that's where the under-sink dishwasher odor has been originating. The trap was full of water and a bit of gook - it could be in the disposal, but first I ought to snake the main. Maybe a shot of bore-cleaner will fix it? :-)
UPDATE-UPDATE: Using a metal hacksaw blade I cut the down-pipe short about 3/8" with the Bosch saber-saw, to encourage downhill travel/flow, and then cleaned up the edge with a file.
My journey to the Plumbing Supply shop garnered me another 25-foot snake (for the second time in 20-years) that I pushed and twisted with the cordless drill to slap the sides of the outflow pipe. A day later: Now I know how Marlon Perkins felt after wrestling with a 25-foot anaconda.
It felt like I pushed through about six or seven blockages in the 25-foot run before the snake ended. Then I rigged a vise to hold it in place and just let it go for a while until I noticed icky black specks appearing on the linoleum.
Ugg, get out the 409 and more paper towels for cleanup.
I finally got it all back together and buttoned-up and we should be good for another 20-years of neglect.
UPDATE-UPDATE-UPDATE: Best of all: I found a box of handloads, enough for the Garand Match, hiding in my loading bench!
4 comments:
If you still have 1,000 primers and brass, you need to get busy and start loading. Just remember the gov't can shut things down overnight.
Loading yes, on a single-stage press it can take more than overnight to do 1,000 rounds.
Meanwhile the under-sink work must go forward.
Could you just not have shot the sink?
I would have *shot* the sink with the Garand rounds, I was angry enough!
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