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(More customer reviews)The plug in the strainer basket includes a rubber O-ring, which makes a watertight seal with the drain hole. Unfortunately this O-ring degrades rather quickly. In my kitchen sink, it began to loosen after about 1 year, so that a sink full of water would drain all by itself in two hours. Occasionally, when I remove the basket I see that the O-ring has slipped completely off the strainer basket & (fortunately!) is laying atop the cross members in the drain. In my opinion that's far too loose.
What causes this? Excessively hot water? The rubber in the O-ring gradually ages? Operator error? I don't know.
Yesterday my luck ran out; I took out the basket and the O-ring had vanished. Down the drain. So I went to Lowe's home center and bought a replacement O-ring. I'm leaving this review so that other Kohler strainer basket owners will know which O-ring to buy when it happens to them! The one that fit perfectly was (1 + 5/8)" ID by (1 + 3/4)" OD by (1/16)" wall. At Lowe's it is BrassCraft part SC-0623 . In the store I paid $2.00 for two of these O-rings. You can also find them online, such as http://amzn.to/fwd2Pe , but they are cheaper in the store. For those who are *hardcore* hardware aficionados, the O-ring DESCRIPTION (not part number, description) is "AS568A Dash 030" [...]
But I hope you never have to buy an O-ring as long as you own the Kohler.
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