One way to remove a stuck bath sink drain flange
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- Опубліковано 29 січ 2016
- Got a one piece metal tailpipe and need to free a stuck flange? Here's a cheap trick that will help you grip the flange from the inside and provide enough resistance to remove it without destroying the flange or the sink. Using a piece of rubber from an tire tube wrap a socket and insert it into the flange.
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Sir, here, I am seven years later, and just like everyone else on this thread, I would like you to know you are the only person in the entirety of the world who addresses this major problem. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I have been working on a sink drain for two weeks, and 10 minutes after watching your video I had that pipe in the trashcan.
This is the ONLY resource I could find for this exact issue. Thank you so much for sharing this! I was about to break something to get the stupid drain out.
I'm in the same boat, so annoying.
Yay! This 70 year old lady sends hugs to a great video. I was at my wits end trying to figure out how to get the old one out. Many thanks for the video. ❤❤
If no one has said it already, "YOU ARE THE MAN"!!!!!!!!!!!!! Worked like a charm.
After hearing the first 5 seconds of this video I knew I had come to the right place !! 😂
Just like all these other people, just wanted to say thanks and that you saved my day as well. Like Brian said, mine was also like it was welded on! Well done sir! Thank you!
You are the man! This saved me hours of research and a hefty amount of cash once I would have reassigned myself to buying a sawsall.
Wow, great idea. I cleaned all the gunk off the inside surfaces with windex and your trick worked! The black oxide (impact) socket made a difference too! Thanks!!
SEVEN years after publish date and I just found this useful! Having the exact same problem.
This totally worked! Saved me immeasurable time and hassle, thank you!!! Lucky I just happened to have a little sheet of rubber like yours...
You saved the day!!! It worked like a charm! Thank you so much!
I'm happy this worked for some folks but it didn't for me. I ended up with the socket and now shredded rubber pad (one of those grippy pads for removing stubborn jar lids) stuck in the drain. I had to work them loose with a vise-grip. Glad I didn't crack the sink. So, I ended up getting the hacksaw out and cutting the pipe in two from under the sink. Desperate times call for desperate measures. I'm just thankful the new drain pipe is not made the same dumb way. Have I mentioned how much I Hate plumbing projects?
I'm glad you referred to it as 'this DAMN drain flange', because that's how I knew it was the same model as the one I'm working on! :-)
Worked like a charm!! Used a piece of a bicycle tube. Thank you!!!!
Very helpful as I thought it would be a straight-forward removal of the old assembly and then this problem occurred. Thanks!
Worked like a charm....Easy Peasy!! Thanks!!!
I'm about to try it. Thanks!!
Great idea!! Thank you!
This works great. Thank you
Oh this guy a Beer. That was very helpful.
It worked. Thank you.
thank you for the tip!
This worked for me too!
Just as I discovered this elegant solution my partner got it done the hard way, with blue language and basin chipping.
Thank god. Nobody ever mentions this being an issue. Every video is someone removing a brand new part and replacing it with another brand new part so nothing is seized
Wow, brilliant.
Brilliant!! Thanks so much...love how you started the video..."...this damn nut" lol! Exactly how I was feeling.
Really wish this would work for my problem. Thanks anyways and I'll remember this for later
Yes! We used a vinyl glove, wrapped it around the socket and voila. We had sprayed the drain with lime-away to try to loosen things up, not sure if that helped too.
Good one brother
il give it try. thanks
Thanks!!!
Thanks! Any tips for sticky pipes itself? Have something that fell down the drain clogging the sink and they will not unscrew for the life of me!
Is it possible to do this without removing the pedestal sink from the wall?
would be great if you specified exactly what it is you're using as your resistance materiel. Looks like a cut piece of an inner tube, yes?
Right on thx
Great idea but unfortunately this method didn't work for me. I had to use my heat gun to heat the flange up and then grab it with my channel locks. That did the trick. But still, thanks for sharing the method that worked for you!
what are u rolling up around the socket?
Mine won't budge at all, any idea why it wouldn't move at all??
Thanks BUT it didn't work for my VERY corroded drain. I had to resort to a hacksaw blade on the flange. Once one side had a slit I could pop it inwards-and-out.I wasn't reusing any of the parts so a little destruction didn't matter - I simply had to be careful not to damage the sink itself.
My was stuck it was like it was welded. I ended up taking a dremmel tool with a little cutting wheel pushed up on the drain from the bottom and cut the top metal portion of the sink drain and then just pulled on it with plyers and it just peeled right off. Its not very big or deep and cut pretty easily.
This is the easiest way by far
What did you wrap around the rachet? Was it rubber or gorilla tape?? Thanks
I didn't have a rubber tube handy, so I took a Sawzall to it.
It worked.
Bwahahahaha! :,)
I could not get this method to work as I did not have any material to use like the rubber you had and tried rubber gloves and other items. It took a hammer to unstick the brass nut and literally an hour to unscrew it. My arms ache. I saw another vid where someone just cut on side of it and snapped it off. There has to be a better way to attach drains to a sink.
wish this would have helped. looks like the the builder 23 years ago decided to smear plumbers putty into the collar and not just around the collar like they are supposed to. time to break out the angle grinder. Sadly I've got 5 of these to do.
Same thing over here
What material did you use?
a piece of rubber from an tire tube....
Southern Comfort ah I didn’t think of that. I tried heater hose and even a sticky gooey roof repair wrap but the socket spun. So I ended up grinding it to pieces to get it out. I have 3 more to do so I’ll try the tire tube. Just had a bicycle blow out so I’ve got a tube to use. :). Thanks for the video. Shows creativity and ingenuity rules.
I should have watch this video earlier, it would have saved me 15 minutes of scratching my head. Thanks!
Been busting my ass for 30 minutes trying to do something for this. WD40 didn't work. Thanks!!
Ingenious but isn't working for mine. So frustrating. My home is only 3 years old. I think they used concrete in the dumb thing.
This is perfect for Lance Armstrong and the other 3 Americans who have a SPARE BICYCLE INNERTUBE handy. For the rest of us, it looks like hacksaws or witch hazel and 2 sets of vice grips
I wish this worked.