Pickles by Brian Crane for October 15, 2018

Or you could just wait for the bolts to rust though.

time to get a new toilet, Earl… better use a bucket for the time being

Opal is going to be fit to be tied!

That will not make a planter.

You needed a new toilet anyway.

Now the plumber will charge twice as much for re-doing the job.

I would hazard a guess that Earl has never heard of WD-40! Myself I use a Dremel tool and cut off the bolt head.

Well Nelson now you know how not to do this job !

Many problems can be solved—-by creating a worse problem!

That must have been on there for a long, long time to be metal fasteners – someone noted that they are mostly plastic these days… they have been for more than a decade or more.

Just go buy a “Toilet in a Box” kit at the big box home center if you know how to put them in, otherwise, fork out the $500 for a plumber to put the same quality fixture in for you…

And always remember to PB4UGO

That is a common Tim Taylor move.

It’s rather amazing how brittle a toilet is.

Earl: A good example of being a bad example…

Note to self: don’t chisel on a toilet, lol!

Not the older seats – we had to change on at our mom’s house – ended up sawing it off – based on Earl’s outcome – I’m glad we did

Now he can show Nelson how to get the nuts off of the rusty bolts on the base.

In loo of a better situation he still did a crappy job. The commode-ity market took a plunge. He should know at his age how to go nuts without cracking up. Get a grip on the situation Earl or you’ll end up holdin’ yer own. At least it didn’t all go down the tubes so what could be the problem, right? If he was a professional plumber Earl would clean up.

On how I hate plumbing. Things never go smoothly. I would gladly reroof a friend’s house before fixing a “simple” plumbing problem.

Years of… missing.. have corroded those brass bolts.. serves Earl right for his lack of precision while.. going

Gotta love the anti-gravity properties in comics-land. That toilet tank is suspended in mid-air held on one end by just a tiny supply tube. (Even more amazing is if that supply tube is the newer flexible type)

The right tool was a saw.

What we need is a wall flap toilet for men.

No panic yet, but better get mopping up the water Earl

This happened to me ! Exactly like Earl.

The only difference was that I was changing the seat for my ex-wife at my ex-house !

Wasn’t the last steel bolt on a toilet seat used about 50 years ago? Brass bolts came next, and nowadays you can’t buy a seat that doesn’t use nylon/plastic fasteners.

Toilet seat bolts are made of plastic. They don’t rust.

Been there, done that. Trying to remove the tank from the bowel

A bonus- Opal cannot complain he left the toilet seat up.

It’s that kind of thought that keeps me from fixing most of my plumbing problems.

That’s why those things are plastic or brass.

ROFL!!!

If you cut off the bolt head how do you get the rest of it out so you can use the new parts?

Funny how comic strip toilets have four bolts holding them down!