I put my old one on the new sink a couple of years ago with no issues. Replaced it with this one and after 3 attempts it still leaks. Did i get a bad unit or am I doing something wrong. Hopefully the pictures help. Doesn't look like it's coming from the flange.
There are two seal locations........
One is the strainer/mounting flange to sink. (red arrow)
A stainless steel sink would use plumbers putty between the sink and the strainer
The other location is the rubber gasket on the top of the disposer. (blue arrow)
It's important that the disposer be put into the strainer straight and that the mounting ring be turned until the catches hit each other. Basically so the lower ring cannot be turned any further.
Thanks Pete, I was hoping you could see from the second picture that it would not turn any further. I'll check the link and try it again. Must have gotten lucky on my first one.
Tried again and feel I'm getting it in straight. No problems running water. As soon as I hit the disposal it started leaking again.
Picked up a new one today and its doing the same thing, so I'm doing something wrong. I'll redo everything tomorrow. I didn't change the flange or collar, just put the new unit on what I had installed before. I don't think its leaking from there but maybe I'll get lucky.
Still a really slow leak from the back. It has to be that i don't have all three screws the same. Think I'll tighten or loosen the one in the back where it is weeping from. Any thoughts?
I have a Kenmore 721.62349202 microwave oven manufactured in December 2004. Still working great.
Last week when softening several pats of butter in a glass baking dish the oven flashed. We usually cover butter when melting it in the microwave to avoid it exploding all over the inside. This time since I was only going to run it for about 15 seconds and not to full melt, I left it uncovered. At about 12 seconds the microwave flashed and I stopped it. The butter was only soft and did not explode.
Was this flash due to the uncovered butter (ionization)? Or is the microwave approaching its end-of-life?
Due to the age of the oven SWMBO has already ordered a replacement and is standing way out of the line of fire when using the oven. It has been working normally since.
Hi all, possibly a stupid question, but I'm trying to confirm whether or not there's something wrong with my microwave before replacing/modifying it. It's a GE JVM1540SM5SS OTR microwave (picture attached). It's vented to the outside. My problem is (possibly) with the intake for the vent. I'm not sure that it's really any good at actually drawing air up away from my gas range.
The microwave has a slotted grill along the top front of it, with two small intakes for the vent behind the grill (red arrows in attached picture). I confirmed that it does suck air in here, by loosely holding tissue paper near these spots and having it adhere to the grill from the air pressure. However, I would expect that the vent would primarily draw in air from beneath, where the blue arrows are in my diagram. There are grease traps down there. The problem is, I don't think that it is drawing in air from there. I never see any effect on steam rising from my cooking when the vent's on, and the same tissue paper test underneath the microwave has no effect on the paper. Maybe it's a small thing, but it just doesn't seem to be working properly.
Is this something that I could change? Some alternate means of routing the airflow so that it draws in from the bottom, rather than the top? For what it's worth, the grease traps don't seem dirty at all, and I really don't think the previous owners would have cleaned them. Or is there a good way to test and see if the vent is in fact drawing in air from the bottom, besides observing steam or the tissue paper I used?
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