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Originally Posted by Centex
.... Disassembly of the drain revealed an IMO too-thick gasket under the flange. ....
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hah. read on...
so... months later. read up on installing drains in sinks. cleared all the stuff under the sink out of the way, drained the trap into a bowl to be dumped outside, removed the drain from the sink. thank you Escape for using a P trap that has a drain port at the bottom. its all glued together except for the downpipe fitting, and the drain itself.
there was a big flat black rubber washer between the flange on the drain, and the sink. I took that out, cleaned the drain and sink up, packed the underside of the flange with a donut of plumbers putty and reinstalled it, using a proper sink wrench, and cranking down tight on it to squeeze out almost all of the putty, which I wiped off.
There was a paper washer on the drain nut, I carefully left that intact and reused it.
the sink bottom is too flat, and a little water still sits on it and doesn't go to the drain, but no longer is the drain flange 1mm above the sink bottom, now its below the sink level.