Waste King L-2600 Legend Series 1/2 HP Continuous Feed Operation Waste Disposer

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Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The Waste King L-2600 Legend Series 1/2 HP Continuous Feed Operation Waste Disposer features fast & easy mounting, stainless steel grinding components, safe for properly sized septic tanks.

Product Description

"Vortex" powered energy efficient high speed permanent magnet motor. Corrosion proof grinding chamber of glass filled nylon. Stainless steel swivel impellers reduce jamming. Removable splash guard is easy to clean and replace. Sound insulated for quiet op eration. Front mounted reset button for easy use. Safe for properly sized septic tanks. Fast and easy installation. 115 volts, 60 Hz, 4.5 current-amps. 13-7/16"H x 7-5/8"D. Mounting hardware included. U.L. Listed. 5 YEAR IN-HOME WARRANTY. LIFETIME CORROSI ON WARRANTY.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 8.8 x 14.2 inches ; 10.1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B0014X7B54
• Item model number: L-2600
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (48 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #181 in Home Improvement (See Bestsellers in Home Improvement)

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Customer Reviews

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars works great so far and was pretty easy to install, December 30, 2008

By	Ehkzu (Palo Alto, CA United States) - See all my reviews

Like the other reviewer I replaced an older one with this. The trick is that older garbage disposals tend to have something called a three-point attachment just under the sink, while newer ones like this have a new design that rotates on. Now if you want to replace the current part that's in the sink this doesn't matter. But then you need the plumber's putty like the other reviewer said (unless it's a stainless steel sink, whose smooth surface apparently doesn't leak).

On the other hand you can do what I did and buy an adapter. This mounted under the sink, allowing me to keep the part you see in the sink when you look down, and thereby obviating the need for applying plumber's putty. It cost about $15 at Orchard Supply, but I'm sure you can get one from Amazon. It bolted to the sink part easily, and the Waste King rotated onto the adapter equally easily.

The only problem was that the adapter lowered the garbage disposal itself half an inch or so. I wound up going to Home Depot and rummaging around in their disordered bins until I found the pieces of piping I needed. It was a snap to install them once I got home, though. Plastic piping has become so standard, and works so well, it's hard to remember the old days when you needed plumber's putty for everything.

Now the installation under the sink looks professional, I've upgraded from a 1/3 to a 1/2 hp. motor, it's quieter (and mostly plastic, as the other reviewer said). This came with a 5 year warranty, and if I'd bought a more expensive Waste King I could have gotten a one-owner lifetime warranty. But this seemed good enough. And it was a much longer warranty than the comparable Kenmore unit.

It also came with a power cord built in. Didn't have to wire up anything.

I'd say, in general, that plumbing has become much easier for do-it-yourselfers. So if you're hesitating, I recommend going for it.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quiet, strong and cheap, best warranty. Get it., February 20, 2009

By	Juliusz A. Kostecki (South Windsor, CT USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought this to replace 20 year old ISE disposer which lost both of its blades and was pretty much useless.

Installation was almost plug-and-play except for the sink flange piece. I had to remove old one (couple of minutes), clean some old plumber's putty and make sure contact surface is clean before I put the new one on. Since I have stainless steel sink, the supplied rubber gasket was just fine to use alone. The outlet orientation and dishwasher inlet were in exact same spot as the previous disposer so I didn't have to mock around with that - perfect compatibility.

Last was electrical hook up. The disposer comes with around 2-3 feet of cable with standard 3 prong plug on one end... I had to cut it off and make electrical connection to old cable. Manual covers that and tells exactly which prong should be hooked up to which color of wire on the other cable. Similarly to plumber's putty, there were no wire caps included with the disposer.

At this point I was finished so I decided to test the efficiency of this disposer... I took all the bits and pieces of food (nut shells, carrots, etc, stuff that old broken disposer could not chew), almost full chamber of it and stuffed it into the new disposer... It chewed thru all of it in about 10s, truly amazing. No wonder since this disposer spins at 2600 rpms which is something like 2x as fast than usual disposer in its class. It is also VERY quiet. When operating in normal fashion (not full chamber of hard stuff at once), you won't even notice much more noise when throwing stuff inside since the food gets chewed into little pieces immediately and has no time to bounce around the chamber generating noise and vibrations for sink to amplify.

The disposer comes with removable splash guard that sits about 2 inches below sink line inside of the flange. It also comes with sink plug, you insert it inside the flange. It is a very effective plug too.

I think this is the best bang for the bucks these days since for one, it is all stainless steel blades and chamber walls secondly it comes with 5 year in home warranty and life time rust warranty.

For comparison, I went to Lowes/HD and what did I find for this price? The cheapest they had was ISE Badger 1 which was actually $76 + tax. That one is noisy as hell, has galvanized steel parts (will rust in couple of years) and very short warranty...

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Nice Disposal For The Money., December 8, 2008

By	ILoveLivingRural - See all my reviews

Very easy installation, (taking the old one out was the hardest part), is fairly quiet and seems powerful. Of course most of it is plastic where the 18 year old In-sink-erator it replaced was almost all steel. One thing I really liked is the easily removable splash guard. One thing I didn't like is if your sink isn't stainless steel, you'll be running to the hardware store in the middle of the installation for some plumber's putty. For a couple of pennies, they could have included in the install kit a small rope of plumber's putty for the sink flange. I hope it lasts at least half as long as the old In-sink-erator did!

P.S. I always feel good buying from Amazon. They're one of the best internet dealers period. I received this disposal in just 2 days after ordering!