Garbage disposals... Oyvey!

One of the first things I did when we moved in was to crawl around under the kitchen sink to see if everything's okay. I find that some idiot wired up the garbage disposal under the sink with a piece of 18 AWG lamp cord! That's a NO-NO!

So I hopped in the car and made off for the hardware store. I got a nice chunk of "14-3 SOW". (Waterproof, rubber-covered, 3-conductor 14 AWG cable.) I get half way through the job and I get hollered at for "tearing up HER kitchen"! I try to explain that the reason I'm doing this is because I don't want to come home one evening and find my woman laid out on the kitchen floor in cardiac arrest from electric shock. I get a begrudging acknowledgement and keep working.

Little did I know that the dishwasher was hooked to the same line as the disposal. I hooked the disposal up but, now the dishwasher doesn't work. More hollering ensues, as you can guess. Later on, I get it all working properly and give myself a well-deserved pat on the back. All the while I get these grumblings about how she couldn't work in the kitchen.

A week later, I'm sitting in the living room, watching TV and I hear this God-Awful noise coming out of the kitchen. I sprint out there to see her frozen in terror as the disposal is chewing up some foriegn object, making a hell of a racket. I reach under and shut it off. "Melanie! When the disposal makes awful noises, SHUT IT OFF!", I say.

Upon looking inside, I find a chewed up dish rag! I pulled it out and tried to get the thing going again but to no avail. If you know about the insides of disposers, there are two little "blade thingies" inside there that swing around on hinges and chop up the food. Both of them are torn partially off their hinges and are hitting the outside of the housing. As they spin around, the grind against the metal and make the worst racket you ever heard. Needless to say, the thing is toast.

I figure I'll let her stew on it for a while. A week or so without a disposer should be "punishment" enough, eh? All the while she declares that it's a "convenience" she doesn't really need.

Right on cue, I get the call... "Aren't you going to replace the disposer?!"

We go to the store and pick out a new one. I start to put it in.
Modern disposers are on "quick-lock" mounts. All you have to do is give them a 1/2 twist and they drop right out. Twist the new one on and you're in business, right?

Nope!

The old one was a Sears Kenmore brand. The new one is an In-Sink-Erator. The ring around the drain hole is stamped with the name of the company. Of course, it would be easier just to let the old mounting collar stay there. Who CARES what it says, right?! Nope! It HAS to say, "In-Sink-Erator". A 20 minute job turns into a one hour job because of the darned label... which is going to be covered up with garbage 1/2 the time anyway!

I get it all put in and working OK and guess WHO is standing there, asking if I'm done tearing up HER kitchen!?

...WOMEN!!

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I edited my post to read "has to be"....

There is gotta be something on it somewhere.....JOHN!!!! HELP!!!
http://www.procomfortusa.com/seat.htm

The engineering of SoftClose incorporates TOTO's high standard of quality and consumer ease. Top tightening mounting bolts ensure easy installation. And of course, all seats are precision designed to fit regular or elongated bowls.

Ergonomic Design
The Warmlet’s unique seat design fits the contours of the human body to ensure maximum comfort and enjoyment.

These are 249 bucks....On sale for 199 bucks.

Slipping into mode now.

Here is an interesting toilet seat design. A lot of thought went into it, but it doesn't seem to have taken into account the "re-shaping of the buttocks so a cleaner job will be possible when the sitter takes a dump", just other points. You can read about it here. I'm not sure it's all that it's cracked up to be. (pun intended, of course)

I've actually sat on this next one at a friend's house...and hated it. Here is the link. "Comfort" was not found.

Finally here is a bizarre "ergonomic" ass seat. This link also has other odd products like a staircase that folds into a wall.

Here are some cool seat cover designs:

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David, it looks like that last model just might DO that!

Be careful of the bolts. They can work loose. I read about some guy in New York who had the seat "shift" while he was sitting on it, and he got his "Manliness" device smashed between the bottom of the seat and the bowl. That news even made the Seattle paper.

Who he was trying to sue, I don't know...and I don't know if he was successful. Maybe some of you New Yorkers can enlighten us about this unfortunate tragedy.

Jeeze, I'll bet that hurt...

Randy, I saw some custom toilet seats on the "Information Highway" that were advertized in price for almost 1,200 bucks! Can you believe that?

I thought the military was bad...

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It all started with the ROMANS!

Only this is no hoax nor urban legend. It's all documented in blocks of marble and limestone:

<<The Puzzling Channels in Ancient Latrines
Hershel Shanks
It seemed like a minor detail, but the narrow cuts on some Jerusalem stones revealed the Roman world's personal hygiene practices>>

This lavishly photographed report in Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2002 (vol 28 N05) reveals existing and reconstructed
Roman latrines (seating up to 64 in a row!) and explains in closeup
photos and diagrams the intricacies of seating, 'flushing', wiping and washing up.

The pins/hinges that held the slings (I only called them "blade thingies" for lack of the correct nomenclature... thanks for the telling me the right name.) were partially rusted. One of them didn't even swivel properly in the first place. The rag, in combination with the rest of the junk that was down in there just bent them all to hell. After that, they scored a ring around the inside of the grind chamber.

It was better to just replace the thing. Besides, would YOU want to tear apart a disposer that is, God knows, HOW many years old and which is full of, God knows, WHAT kind of caked-on junk? Not ME!

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