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Sink Drain Don’t Work No More! #diy #plumbing #helpingothers #faucetrepair

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Video by That Fix It Guy

That Fix It Guy

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This project details the process of diagnosing a non-functional bathroom sink stopper. The video demonstrates how to identify a rusted-off connecting bar within the pop-up drain assembly by inspecting the stopper, the drain opening, and then accessing the pivot rod mechanism from under the sink. A temporary reassembly is performed to allow the sink to be used while a permanent solution is considered.

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So my friend said, hey, Brown, while you're here, can you check and see if you can put this little stopper back in? And you can see right there we've got some rust going on. So if you get down in here, there is no bar. I think that the bar completely rusted off. So there's no bar to hold this on inside that drain. So we'll get up under the sink, check out the pop-up assembly. We'll get right up underneath here. We'll twist this off. Look at that missing a bar. Yeah, it just barely, barely comes out of there. So that's what the scenario is. We'll see if a moment will give him another one and we'll get it put back together. Either that or we'll just change the whole pop-up. For now, just put this back on here, tighten it up, and he can still use his sink.

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