You Can Do It - Aerator Cleaning

Al Carrell: Many times people have a faucet that doesn't have quite enough pressure and their first thought is, I have to put in a new faucet. Most of the time the problem is right here on the end of the spout. It's a little device called an aerator. Now if you take that out, sometimes you can just grab hold of it and turn it, but if you can't, sometimes this will help. Take a wide rubber band, pull it tight around there. That gives you a little bit better grip, and if that doesn't work, then you just take a rag and wrap around there and take a pair of pliers and grab hold. This way you're not going to scratch up the chrome or the gold, or whatever it's made out of. And once you get it loosened, then you'll be able to go in there and remove it. Now once you take it apart, you want to take all the little parts here and put them in a bowl and they usually pop right on out of there with just a little force, there we go. And then you put the parts inside here and what you want to do is pour vinegar over the top of that. Be sure it's completely submerged in vinegar and what happens is, the vinegar will dissolve mineral deposits and mineral deposits are what got the thing clogged up. How did that happen? Well, usually when somebody works on a faucet, even a brand new faucet, they cut the water supply off and then when they cut it back on the force of the water coming through there will pick up these mineral deposits and push 'em up to some place and where better to catch it than a place with a screen like this. If you'll get this thing whipped back into shape, put it back on the faucet, you'll have all the water pressure you need.

Episode 021 1995 - 96 Season

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