garbage eater
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Topic: garbage eater
Posted By: JohnnyCanuck
Subject: garbage eater
Date Posted: 24 February 2010 at 8:28am
I installed a garberator this week, my wifes out of town so it gave me a chance to gut everything out and plumb it in. I bought 1 hp of stainless steel chewing craziness, and after getting it all plumbed in and checking for leaks, I had to try it, and try it I did. Vegetables got boring, even potatoes are gone in seconds, I had some rib bones, the sound was like a wood chipper. The best was an 18" english cucumber, when you put stuff in it feeds it down, fun stuff.  I installed a button on the sink, activates the garberator with an air-switch.  ------------- Imagine there’s a picture of your favourite thing here. |
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Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 24 February 2010 at 8:54am
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We call them garbage disposals here. I will pretty much put any food item down there and have lost a few shot glasses to them as well. Watch out for celery though...it clogged ours up really bad because of how fibery it is.
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Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 24 February 2010 at 9:29am
| I hate the sink garbage disposals. I feel like I'm going to lose a finger. |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 24 February 2010 at 9:41am
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JohnnyCanuck wrote:Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 24 February 2010 at 10:38am
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For them to pass QC at the factory, they have them grind up 2# of solid beef bones. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: FROG MAN
Date Posted: 24 February 2010 at 10:39am
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i had one in my old condo, and it stunk, I had to take it a part a few times and clean the crap out of it. But ya there very convenient.
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 24 February 2010 at 11:03am
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Will it blend?
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Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 24 February 2010 at 12:10pm
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Eh, we got rid of our's a few years back. Compost, garbage, or recycling for anything that can't get down the drain has been working fine ever since (and for that matter, since before then). We never used it, but it developed a leak so it was easier to just fit a straight pipe instead of replacing it.
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Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 24 February 2010 at 1:01pm
Be careful with potatoes; while garbage disposals can handle them the skin tends to form a sludge that stops up horizontal piping pretty quickly. Edit: I have story about putting one of those in. The short version is that I shouldn't have done it when my back was acting up. The one I installed was larger than the one I took out (more power  ) and I found the easiest way to install it was to crawl under the sink and set it on my chest positioned below the bottom of the sink and just lift it up and put it on. Once it was installed I realized several things:
I did get out eventually, but the rest of the day was spent with alcohol and a heating pad. (And I'm fairly certain the cat was laughing at me.) Second edit: For accuracy/left out words ------------- 
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Posted By: JohnnyCanuck
Date Posted: 24 February 2010 at 2:20pm
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haha, I hear ya. There is no room and for the size it's quite awkward, I stuck my bony knee under it and screwed the fitting on. I'm going to replace the corrugated pipe that came with it with a straight pipe.
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Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 24 February 2010 at 4:02pm
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Old paintballs?
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Posted By: Brian Fellows
Date Posted: 24 February 2010 at 7:05pm
| Neighborhood pets. |
Posted By: bravecoward
Date Posted: 25 February 2010 at 12:06am
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dont pour rice down it.
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Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 25 February 2010 at 12:11am
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I-beam?
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Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 25 February 2010 at 12:27am
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Lawyer? ------------- 
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Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 25 February 2010 at 12:46am
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I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW! Rig the switch to some sort of IR beam device like at cash regesters, then reverse the polarity. So when the beam is broken, device activates. Then put cheese on the blades overnight.
Also, perhaps im just an idiot, but I definitely would turn the sucker on while water is pouring into it -------------
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Posted By: FarSeer
Date Posted: 25 February 2010 at 12:50am
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NEVER drop silverware down it. I accidentally dropped a fork in mine. It shot back out and got stuck in the ceiling. ------------- http://tbish.webs.com/tippy.html - My E-Bolted 98 |
Posted By: pb125
Date Posted: 25 February 2010 at 3:49am
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Is this really a thread.
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Posted By: ThatGuitarGuy
Date Posted: 25 February 2010 at 6:02pm
Actually, aren't you SUPPOSED to run water down the drain while the thing is running? My parents always did on theirs while I was growing up, so I just assumed you were supposed to, so I do now. Is this wrong? ------------- Skillet: I've never been terribly fond of the look of a vagina |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 25 February 2010 at 6:13pm
You are correct Guitar Guy. You are supposed to run water while operating the disposal for two reasons. One, it flushes the debris on down the drain rather than letting it become sludge which can gum up the grinding wheel. Two, it is essentially a grind-wheel and thus, needs cooling while in operation due to the heat build up from friction. While there are little blades in a garbage disposal unit, they are only there to break up large pieces of food into more manageable ones. The grind wheel then takes over and grinds everything into a pulp which is then carried away by the flow of water. Rice CAN go down a disposal so long as you make sure to put it down while it is running, and give it sufficient water and time to do the job completely. The problem with rice is that when it dries out, it gets hard and can lock the grind wheel up, essentially gluing it to the housing walls. The people who put rice down it and have it seize up on them either didn't use enough water or didn't give the disposal enough time to do its job. You should always allow a disposal to run 15 to 30 more seconds after it has finished grinding something up, and then allow the water to flow an additional 20-30 seconds after you've turned it off to fully flush the system. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: *Stealth*
Date Posted: 25 February 2010 at 6:20pm
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We once fully clogged and broke a functional industrial garbage disposal with... ... A few pounds of fried clams. ------------- |
Posted By: JohnnyCanuck
Date Posted: 25 February 2010 at 7:17pm
yes, water is like lubricant, and hot water works way better except for celery. I put the disposal purposely on the opposite side that we do dishes so that silverware won't typically fall in. For a 1 hp unit, it really is quiet, once we get our composting set up we won't use it as much. ------------- Imagine there’s a picture of your favourite thing here. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 25 February 2010 at 7:24pm
| I only have one sink in my kitchen :( |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 25 February 2010 at 7:25pm
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You really shouldn't use table scraps in compost.* *Or so I have been told by the off-duty supervisor (who takes her gardening really seriously). -------------
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 25 February 2010 at 7:50pm
It's true. The best food waste compost is raw scraps from prepping. Things like onion peels, celery tops, etc are way better than anything that's been cooked. Furthermore, the preservatives in prepared foods as well as the sodium that is used, is detrimental to the compost itself. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 25 February 2010 at 7:53pm
This is true. My mom only puts raw vegetables bits into her compost (although it's actually probably 90% grass...our yard is a little big now that the kids are all grown up). ------------- BU Engineering 2012 |
Posted By: slackerr26
Date Posted: 25 February 2010 at 8:00pm
as do i, but it has a disposal in it. makes life alot easier ------------- 
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Posted By: bravecoward
Date Posted: 25 February 2010 at 8:18pm
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The rice went down fine, it just expanded later on in the pipe and me and my dad spent a long time cleaning it out. I should mention it was a lot, like 2 pounds of rice
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Posted By: JohnnyCanuck
Date Posted: 25 February 2010 at 9:58pm
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I meant the veggies for compost. Another thing that that I thought was odd was how junky my p-trap was for only being 6 months old, it was nasty.
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