Bathtub drain repair

Ah. This doesn't sound like the usual trip-lever/faceplate waste stopper.

A half-century ago, Crane (or maybe it was Am-Std) used a chrome stopper that moved up and down right in the drain fitting in the bottom of the tub. Is that the one?

IIRC, you can pry up the stopper and then slide it out (toward the back wall of the tub). It had a hinged rod/lever which engaged a big spring deep in the bowels of the drain.

If that's not it, you'll have to post a photo on some site.

Jim

It *sounds* like it. The stopper is chrome. Other parts of your description match. But the fixture with the overflow and lever sez Kohler (I shoulda spotted this before).

I put lots of hand pressure on the stopper: it don't wanna come out. I put a tool on it and bend it the tiniest, tinest bit, it becomes instantaneously useless. Did this with the bath lav years ago, can't do it again.

I will fiddle with it tomorrow, see what I can see.

Thanks, Puddin'

It might be what is called a touch-toe drain, They unscrew. There is a 1/4" bolt in the bottom that screws into a bracket on the bath shoe. Thr unscrewing it - might work. Then buy a new touch toe & screw it in.

Stretch

I got it apart. There was a small phillips screw inside the stopper, obfuscated by crud.

Cleaned 20+ years of Hideous Garbage Slime out of the drain. Some of it was on the beveled edge where the stopper seals.

Seems OK now.

Thanks, Pudd>Re: Bathtub drain repair

how would you adjust this tub?