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Remove the Tailpiece and Old Strainer

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SOMETIMES YOU GOTTA USE A MINI SAW!!...How to Remove a Stuck Kitchen Sink Strainer!

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okay so then what we'll do is we'll actually just come right here to this nut and we're gonna untwist this all right they're usually just hand tight and just pop that out so i came out to my friend's wood shop and i needed a metal vise and the only one i could find was this little one right here so he's like yeah sure go ahead and use it so we really don't need this little vise for much i just want to get this basket strainer and this nut off the new pack comes with a nut with the basket strainer but i still want to reuse this so we're just going gonna try to grab onto this as well there we go okay so man you can see that was on there whoever put that whoever put this nut on there they put it on with plumber's putty you could tell and man when that stuff hardened that wasn't coming apart which i mean hey it worked it's not my preferred choice i like to have things that will come apart but it worked pretty well at that it doesn't matter we're throwing it away anyway but little vice worked out this thing's awesome man it's just cool like just a little attaches to the tabletop give you a small little thing i love it okay so then we're just going to pop these off pop this off we're going to chuck this and we're going to clean this up a little bit there's a gasket on here make sure you take that off because we're going to put a new one on

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