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Other uses for O-Rings...

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#1 ·
Here are a few good things to do with

1- ever lose the red straw for the WD-40 can? Of course you have..
use a few large ORings to keep it attached to the can when not in use.
(See pic)

2- use a small Oring, tightly around an Allen wrench, as a stop when installing a seat into a tub and shower faucet. The Oring keeps forward pressure the seat until the
threads bite.

3- when my daughter was little she lost her hair elastics constantly, but an Oring came in handy more then once, and it didn’t rip out her hair like a reg elastic.

4- my buddy gets orings off of amazon, and puts them under the keys on his keyboard, it apparently dampens the clicking sound of the keys when typing.
 

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#3 ·
You kinda beat me to it, I was gonna mention how sloan h-553 o-rings make great cock rings.
















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#4 ·
You may have noticed how the tee and j bend connections on continuous wastes come loose under the kitchen sink, probably due to disposal vibration or an argument with a garbage can.
An old timer gave me some hefty 1-3/8" o-rings and said to use them in place of the slip joint washers at those tee and J bend joints. Works great.
 
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Compression nut?!! Eff that, the unit was not installed correctly on the mounting bracket! When doing the first few myself, I wondered what was tight enough, until I finally felt that first one click. God help those poor people who bought the half dozen condos where this inexperienced apprentice installed those disposals. For a while there I reassured myself that it couldn't be all that bad, since I'd never heard of one falling off..... until now.
 
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