A plumbing question, in pictorial form

[Racer X]

the thing on the sprayer hose is both a weight and a pull stop. mine has one as well, brass i think. Or some hideous lead/nuclear waste alloy from China most likely.....

I have one of those flex pipes on the left sink of my double sink. the thing collects water in the grooves, and gets nasty in the spring through fall as sh*t grows in it. gotta change it. But in a sink used very frequently, might not be too bad.

[Fritz]

what bilb & BL said. I'd replace the flex and sink tail piece.
Me likey shiny new metal especially when I don't know what the dolts before me may have been concocting in the sink. For the DIY costs, replace.

It's fun to do, especially if you haven't done it before. First off, a new household skill is always good for the ego. And you SO will have a good laugh listening to the unending combination of naughty words coming out of your mouth. With luck she'll call family and friend to share, or perhaps videotape.

My spousal unit loves it when I plumb. Reduced to tears sometimes. Alas we've redone all the plumbing in the last few years. All that's left is redoing the heating system and I ain't crawling under the house.
Feh!

[rgG]

I KNEW IT WAS CALLED A TAIL PIECE!!!

Sorry, just wanted to brag a little. I had to replace one in one of our sinks for some reason once. The smallest things make me happy some days.

[Greg the dogsitter]

[lafinfil]

Greg - good work getting it working .... but ....

You will probably be looking at trouble down the line because the tail piece is too long (and you still got the flex tube)
See how far up hill the water has to be pushed to get out of the drain ? You are probably going to have a slow drain
and eventually develop a clog.

You should cut the tail piece to slide up closer to the dishwater inlet - my 2 cents

[Greg the dogsitter]

Thanks, 'fil!

The flex tube is there because of the bizarre angle of the exit pipe (or whatever that's called) coming out of the wall; a normal P-trap wouldn't work.

Good point about the pipe length; I'll put that on the to-do list.

[M>B>]

Doing better, but that flexible is still there, in the long run try to get a solid piece to replace it. It looks like it can be done!

[lafinfil]

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>The flex tube is there because of the bizarre angle of the exit pipe
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From the picture is looks like it would work, and flex pipe never would have been an original install.

That 90* elbow out of the wall should ideally be coming out level (not pointing down) The P trap should slide
right inside it and have enough adjustment to get it close to the trap. The trap itself will swivel to just about
any position - so it's a matter of playing with the length on the P trap (may need to cut) and the position of the trap.

A little trial and error - but from the photo it appears it should work.

[OWC Jamie]

Two drains under a sink for a double bowl.
That's unique to me.
The second one is a tad high.

The flex pipe is just the easy way out.
There are solid pipes that will do what the flex pipe does.

The height of that upper drain might explain the brass tailpiece rotting out.
The thinwall metal pipes don't last very long and the better ones can be hard to find.

[lafinfil]

billb wrote:
Two drains under a sink for a double bowl.
That's unique to me.
The second one is a tad high.

The flex pipe is just the easy way out.
There are solid pipes that will do what the flex pipe does.

The height of that upper drain might explain the brass tailpiece rotting out.
The thin wall metal pipes don't last very long and the better ones can be hard to find.

Yeah that is a very odd set up. I would be tempted to plug one off (high one most likely) and use a standard T set up for
the double bowl. You could always make the extra a clean out which would be handy to have.

Menards here have the heavy brass set ups as well as thin thin. The heavy brass is worth the bucks if you
only want to have to do this job once (I hate to redo because of cheap parts)

I replaces a bathroom sink drain at my sisters a few months ago (her husband was out of town)
Against my better judgement I grabbed the cheaper lightweight metal and when I got ready to cut it
my tube cutter crushed it before the cutting wheel could even score it. Waste of money.
The plastic is better IMHO than the thin wall metal.