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Default (2008-07-07) NS-RFC: Garbage disposal units


"Blinky the Shark" > wrote in message
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>> I've heard that ice works. Just dump in a tray of ice and grind.
>> Doesn't make as much noise as glass. Glad to hear you are allowed
>> grind glass in your Insinkerator. My hubby goes into apoplexy if I
>> try to grind up a lemon rind, so I do things like that when he's out
>> of the house.

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> Okay, we have, up there, "grating steel" and now "grind". My disposals
> have always had blades. Am I way out of date, here?
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> Blinky



A little the "blades in a disposal are not sharp. For lack of a better term
they are free floating "L" shaped pushers.

There is a great diagram here;


http://www.remodelguide.com/improve/...sal_works.html

The impellers push the food into the shredder.


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