disposer disasters (near)

[insulinpumpuser]

Hi all. The other day I was putting pork chop bones down my GE Disposall disposer. Good thing my face wasen't in front (over) the disposer. A large piece of bone flew out sooo hard that it broke the FL light fixture above me. It was so funny, I could have peed.....Bill in Az.....

 

[tolivac]

When I lived in an apartment years ago in Wash DC area-put a small steak bone in a "Bus-boy" disposer in the apartment-and was rewarded with wet feet!turned out the bone didn't get thrown out of the disposer-but THROUGH the hopper!!The bone sliver was sticking out and water pouring out!.The apartment landlord replaced it with a Badger-From then on took my steak bones to the trash room.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Bill, I'm glad that you are safe. I have always preferred batch feed disposers where the top needed to be locked before they would start. My In Stinkerator was like that. My current Maytag, which I had to buy in 1992 because the plumbing under the sink in my new house was too high for the drain on an ISE batch feed, has a top that just sits in to operate a magnetic switch, but it offers a bit of protection. I'm glad that you are laughing. That's the sort of story that, years ago, would be repeated to neighbors and retold among friends and many who heard it would develop a phobia about disposers and not use one any more.

What a shame there was not a heavy glass cover involved like used to be used in kitchen lights. They make a really neat noise when they fall from the ceiling and crash and your case would have involved being hit by a projectile, too! We had a couple of big glass drum-shaped covers on the lights in our kitchen. There were 3 or 4 little screws that held them onto the fixture. Even though mom had fluorescent work lights, which she usually did not use, she always had higher wattage bulbs than were recommended in the ceiling fixtures. One night she had been working at the island and had just turned away when one of the drums right over where she had been working let go and fell. What a noise it made; very distinctive and loud. She kept saying that it could have fallen on her head and killed her. We all wanted to replace it immediately, mostly to cover the bare bulbs, but she had given us an idea. It was not until those drums came out in plastic that it was replaced after changing to lower wattage bulbs.

The sound that used to get my brother and me laughing to the point of weakness was the sort of dull thud of a terra-cotta pot full of soil and plant roots breaking, not from a long fall, but more like when it slipped out of your fingers just a few seconds too soon and a few inches too high over the patio where you were going to set it down. Even the extra work this caused would be broken up by sudden fits of laughing.

Sorry I let fantasy run away with me. It was a situation just too full of potential for my twisted mind.
Tom

 

[DADoES]

That's certainly scary. I haven't had a disposer in years. The one at my first house cratered, took a sploosh all over under the sink. Did away with it.

 

[gansky1]

I once unknowingly dropped a short handled phillips screwdriver into the disposer. It made a loud bang but then continued to run as normal. A couple of weeks later, I noticed a small stream of water running out of the cabinet. I searched all over for the leak thinking it was from the faucet, drain lines, etc. but it turned out that the screwdriver (which I had never even missed) was stuck through the hopper top. It was around to the back of the unit so not readily visible.

That hopper part cost as much as a whole new Badger so I just replaced the whole unit. Other than a knick in the plastic handle of the screwdriver, it was just fine so back into the toolbox it went.

 

[rinso]

Almost all disposer diasters in my life have involved either the BOL GE disposer with the brush motor, or the ISE Badger models.

Where is Waste King when you really need them?

 

[hoover1060]

My former ISE PRO77 was really bad a coughing stuff up. If there was anything in the grind chamber that allowed the chamber to fill, it was like Old faithful when I hit the switch!
I had a vintage MOL Waste King installed for a while, and I quite liked it.
Now I have a 3/4 Viking, its ok but not outstanding.

I saw the all new ISE's at Home Depot yesterday, I may have to have one of those!

 

[nmaineman36]

disposers

I too have had a funny with disposer...a KitchenAid one that Hobart made. I was grinding some bones one day in it and kept loading the dishwasher when i heard this crash and the disposer came off its mounting. I looked and had a hole in my sink where the disposer nce was and it was still going. The locking ring that KitchenAid had used broke. Dont know if it was all the vibration from the few years that that I had it or just was a weak point. I tried to put it back into place and 2 weeks later it happened again. Got a new one after that. Plus not to mention what a mess it did to my plumbing...

 

[tumbler]

Disposer funnies

For years I've had an ISE 77, top of the line when I put it in about 14 years ago (I've rebuilt it once). I grind corncobs and bones in it, and never had a problem. Note that the rubber "hopper-topper" which prevents stuff from being ejected does deteriorate with time, and should eventually be replaced. That's the piece which is supposed to prevent stuff from being thrown out. I swear by the 77. It's never once jammed, has reversing action (so you get twice the life out of the cutter ring) and the newer one (the 1-hp. model) has a capacitor-start motor with plenty of torque. The Badger models, however, are junk. You'd be better off without a disposer than with one of those...

 

[jakeseacrest]

I LOVE my ISE 777ss. The other day I made roast chicken which then was turned into chicken stock. Once the carcass, skin, and veggies were boiled, all were put through the disposal. I am still amazed at what this disposer will eat compared to the Sinkmaster 1/3 hp that my parents have! Theirs takes forever to grind orange rinds let alone an entire chicken!

 

[johnb300m]

dead disposer

the apartment i'm in has this wierd rusty brown painted disposer. it has no name but it's totally a Badger 1 with the 1/3hp motor.
it's been a great disposer for the past 2 years, but it died the other day. was grinding some old spoiled potatos when it just stopped. under the sink smelled like burning...it must've died.

i swear by InSinkErator. We had them at our old house and they were fantastic. our first house came with a 333ss. that died, so we replaced it with a Badger 5. a very good disposer with just one flaw. when you toss large things in, they get jammed in the chamber and the impellers just hit it and swivel around it. once you stab it a bit with a wooden spoon, it's all good.

our new house now came with a GE with the 8,000 rpm motor. HORRIBLE machine, and loud as hell. it died, the bearings seized, so dad replaced it with a new GE 1/2 HP with the 2600 rpm motor. it's much quieter, and a better disposer. but not as good as an InSinkErator.

ISE's Evolution series looks AMAZING. go to their website and watch the videos. they're beautiful disposers to boot as well.

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[rp2813]

I love my Maytag disposer. It was installed 16 years ago and it's still going strong. Got a great deal on it for like $29 at an appliance place where it was probably returned by a contractor who didn't use it. This thing is quiet and efficient and has never thrown anything back at me. Seems to have the kind of dependability Maytag USED to be famous for.

Ralph