What Is This Thing????

[cabinetman]

Like when the Hudson is parked in the garage???

Is there something about Clue #1 that needs clearing up?
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[Uncle Cracker]

It's the only answer I got, and I'm stickin' to it!

[Salty]

I know...I know...there used to be a lot of them used in the kitchen. All new units don't need them.
I always refered to it as a hootie ring...but that's just me.

:-)

[big tim]

That's funny, I coogled "huddy rim" and it put me back to bt3central to cabman's thread.
It's sound a bit like what the kids would say before they could talk properly.
I give up.

Tim

[chopnhack]

hmmm....
inside a house
toilet wax ring?
or
gangster's car parked inside of a house with 24" rims
lol "hoodie rims"

ROFL

[Ed62]

I'll take another crack at it. Is that the ring on the wall the old wood/coal stoves vented the exhaust through?

Ed

[crokett]

I believe I know what it is. Should I spoil it?

[eccentrictinkerer]

My Dad was a plumber and he referred to the device that fastened a sink to a countertop as a Yehudi Rim. Could that be it?

[crokett]

It is an adapter ring for a stove burner.

[cabinetman]

Salty mentioned the rim so, he's the first to get an "attaboy". As far back as I can remember it was pronounced Hootie, but I believe the manufacturer was Huddy.

I sure installed my share of those buggers. It was the stainless trim ring used to mount a non-self rimming sink to a cutout in a countertop. Most of the sinks that needed it were steel, or porcelain over cast iron. The rim had tabs on the underside that clipped it to the sink. Then the sink was lowered to the countertop, and clips underneath fastened down the sink to the cutout edge. Either plumbers putty or caulk could be used between the sink and the rim, and between the rim and the countertop.
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[Salty]

And they were a royal PITA to install. I remember times when I'd considered removing the countertop just to install a new sink.
You bacially needed either 4 people(and there was only barely room for 1 person under the sink) or someone with 8 arms...preferably a very short person!
2 hands to hold the sink up, cause the guy who cut the opening got carried away and made it just slightly oversized.
2 hands to hold the clips. These were 'T' shaped where the center prong has a hook on the end to grab the inside of the ring. There was a screw in the end that tightened against the sink edge and forced the sink and ring downward. I think I got that right!
2 hands to find and use the screwdriver on the screws.
1 hand to catch the clip that is about to fall out of place.
1 hand to rub your forehead cause you clunked it on the sink trying to find where that d$@m clip fell.

[williwatt]

Huddee Ring

Salty mentioned the rim so, he's the first to get an "attaboy". As far back as I can remember it was pronounced Hootie, but I believe the manufacturer was Huddy.

I sure installed my share of those buggers. It was the stainless trim ring used to mount a non-self rimming sink to a cutout in a countertop. Most of the sinks that needed it were steel, or porcelain over cast iron. The rim had tabs on the underside that clipped it to the sink. Then the sink was lowered to the countertop, and clips underneath fastened down the sink to the cutout edge. Either plumbers putty or caulk could be used between the sink and the rim, and between the rim and the countertop.
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I have always heard it referred to as a "Huddee Ring."

From a plumbing glossary: HUDDEE RING: Old term for metal Sink Frame. Huddee was the original (and only) brand of sink frames at one time. The term became generic for sink frames like Kleenex is to tissue.

Bill

[Uncle Cracker]

C-Man, you can't tell a rim from a ring??? Just outta curiosity, what did you give your wife at your wedding???

[cabinetman]

I have always heard it referred to as a "Huddee Ring."

From a plumbing glossary: HUDDEE RING: Old term for metal Sink Frame. Huddee was the original (and only) brand of sink frames at one time. The term became generic for sink frames like Kleenex is to tissue.

Bill

Before I made the post, I had to call many plumbing suppliers in order to get a spelling. Some of them heard of it, and only one came up with HUDDY. He spelled it like he really knew. So, I admit, I knew how to say it, but the exact spelling was questionable.

I really remember my first time using one. Actually it was the first house I bought. The sink I bought was a double basin porcelain over cast iron, heavy, heavy. The guy at the supply house described how to install. Well, when I got to the sink part, I hooked the rim to the edge, put both hands through the drain holes and lowered it down.

Somehow, I lost my footing, and slipped, and the sink went crashing through the hole, with me still holding on. I didn't want it to break off the water supplies, and I held on. Funny part (not then) was it took me off my feet and into the hole, right over the edge.
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[JR]

What Is This Thing????

A candidate for all-time stupidest thread.