A few days the "waste assembly" (the part with the little arm that goes up and down to raise the drain plug) broke on one of our bathroom sinks. The piece where the arm goes in just snapped off the drain pipe.
(I'm talking about this piece ->
http://www.efaucets.com/detail.asp?Product_ID=14526&ca=gpsl&CAWELAID=433373846&cagpspn=pla&gclid=CK-Gtvf6gL0CFa9cMgodNl8ARQ)
I assume this, and the sink, which is one of those molded "man-made marble" all-in-one dual sinks and countertop, are both original to our 1979 house.
I've swapped the corresponding piece on kitchen sinks, but the material this sink is made of makes me nervous.
Has anyone swapped one of those out? Should I go in expecting smooth sailing, or expecting the sink to break?
It's the sink my wife uses, and she says she "needs" to be able to plug the sink. Since there's a 3/4-inch hole in the side of the pipe at the moment, she's been using the other sink but she isn't very happy about it.
If the consensus is it's likely to break, I'll get a rubber stopper, wrap it with some of that silicon stop-leak tape and put a bucket under it until I'm ready to actually replace the counter and both sinks.
Thanks!