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Prepare the New Sink Flange with Plumber's Putty

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What happens here

Retrieve the plumber's putty and roll a small amount into a ball, about the size of a bouncy ball that fits in the palm of your hand. Roll this ball into a long, thin rope approximately 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick. Take the new sink flange (the 'Insinkerator food waste disposer' ring) and press the putty rope firmly around its underside lip. Ensure the putty completely encircles the flange, creating a continuous seal. Set the flange aside temporarily while preparing the rest of the mounting assembly.

Goal: Apply plumber's putty to the new sink flange for a watertight seal

Tools and materials

  • New Sink Flange InSinkErator — The part that sits in the sink drain opening
  • Plumber's Putty Sta-Put — Sealing the sink flange

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as you clean the top so i like to grab some plumber's putty make it into a ball and make it about the size of it just fits right in the middle of your palms about the size of one of those big bouncy balls just get that set aside and you just set it right back down in there for a minute and then we'll pop this right here out flip our screwdriver head and we just find that lip again like i said this is a much cleaner version for this lip and you just find that edge and just pop it eye off just pop it up and then that just that retainer clip just comes right off of there and so now we leave this whole assembly this is the way the actual assembly is going to go so you just leave it like this and just kind of make sure that all these are up and they're all the same height and they are and we just let this set exactly this way because that's the way it's going back in the retainer clip usually sets like this when it's not on something or when it's not on the mounting flange but for installation purposes you just want to pull it apart a little bit and make it like that it's going to make it so much easier to install that way whenever we go to put it on so now we'll take that ball and we'll just roll it out a little bit i kind of wish logan was here he could help me with this part that one ball is enough to go the whole way around here if it turns out to be a little bit more than so be it but not bad so then we just get this all worked in and now there we have it so then we're just going to set this in the top of the sink this has lettering on it it has

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