I discovered a puddle in my washroom that led me to find a leak in the drain pipe. Looks like a plastic piece called the cam assembly that controls the pop up sink plug eroded away. I removed it and ordered a replacement, but in the meantime I have a hole in the side of the drain pipe. The only temporary solution I could think of using things I already had at home was to take the wax casing of a Babybel cheese piece, smoosh it into a ball and press it into the hole like putty. It’s been working amazingly well (there’s a bowl underneath as a failsafe and it’s completely dry).
Why did the cam assembly erode away?
Is there wear from the operation of the plug, or perhaps an even smaller leak somewhere else that caused this erosion?
What I’m getting at, obviously, is that perhaps another baby bell wax fix is in order, either as a surrogate for a missing bushing or pad or as a stopper for yet another leak somewhere else.
I suppose it’s just physical wear and tear combined with years of exposure to all kinds of nasty stuff going through the drain. There’s a plastic hook there that’s directly in the flow, that’s what eventually broke off, leaving a hole where it was attached.
Ah, there goes my efforts to elevate cheese wax to the pantheon of duct tape and WD-40.