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Bob's pipe wrench advice cost me $180 because I ignored it
My kitchen sink faucet kept dripping for like 3 weeks and I was sure it just needed a new washer. My neighbor Bob, who fixes everything, said stop messing with that and just rent a pipe wrench from the Ace on Columbia Pike. I thought I knew better and bought a cheap 12 dollar set of pliers instead, stripped the nut completely flat. After two days of cursing and a trip to Lowe's for a new faucet plus a plumber bill of $180, I finally asked Bob to show me. He had it off in like 4 minutes with the pipe wrench and it only cost me 9 bucks to rent for the hour. Has anyone else fought a simple fix and ended up paying way more than if they just trusted the person who knew what they were talking about?
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the_jesse2mo ago
Learned that lesson changing my own oil, stripped the drain plug and needed a whole new pan.
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garcia.charles2mo ago
Bro seriously? Stripping a drain plug is annoying but that's like a $20 fix with a helicoil, not a whole new pan. @the_jesse you must've really torqued that thing into next week or got unlucky with the aluminum.
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