"Leonard Blaisdell" > wrote in message
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> In article <4Djaj.5820$Xh1.2340@trndny03>,
> "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>
>> Do you have one? Do you use it?
>>
>> I ask because I have one that I very rarely use. My sink has a tendency
>> to
>> clog and every time I use the disposal, I fear that it will clog again.
>
> I have a dual sink and the disposal has to do a right angle turn to
> connect to the straight down pipe to the sewer on the other side of the
> sink. Then it does another right angle turn in half of the down pipe.
> There's a baffle there so that the garbage disposal junk doesn't squirt
> straight up into the second half of the sink during a major clog, I
> think. It also cuts disposal volume in half there which ain't good. My
> pipe connection is fairly recent (twenty year old state of the art
> plastic), so I can clean out the crap when it happens without tools.
> Lots of egg shells are sure fire plugs at the point where the baffle is.
> Lots of potato skins are too. My problem is and always was that the
> disposal was put in the wrong half of my sink. I don't think I would
> have problems if it was put in the 'straight down to the sewer' part.
> But I know how to deal with it on the occasional times when I have to
> crawl under the sink. I also pour boiling water down into the sink
> occasionally on the non disposal side if draining seems to be slowing. I
> know the fix. I'm not clear on the problem.
> Maybe I'll replace the baffled pipe with a straight pipe someday and
> damn the consequences. I'll save the old pipe though, just in case.

You are describing my sink! They said it had something to do with something
in the way the pipes went but I had a hard time following it. I am not
exactly sure how a sink's pipes should go. And perhaps my disposal is on
the wrong side of the sink as well. I don't know. It's on the right side
and I think all of the ones I've had have been on that side. There's a
dishwasher to the left.