Turn the head with an Allen wrench to move the motor (and impeller plate) manually.
#GARBAGE DISPOSAL NOT TURNING ON MANUAL#
Most modern disposers have a manual crank-simply an exposed Allen-nut head located in the bottom center of the disposer unit. If you hear nothing, try the reset button a couple more times, but chances are you need a new disposer (see tips, below). Press the reset button and try the disposer again.Īt this point, if you hear humming once more or you hear the motor start to engage then quickly shut down, you still have a jam. It’s small, so you have to look carefully. If your disposer has already tripped itself (no motor humming), look for the reset button on the bottom or the side of the unit underneath the sink. Can’t find any obstruction? Skip ahead to Moving the Motor Manually. If you got something out, try running the disposer again, with the cold water going (you should always run the water while using the disposer). You can also use your hands, but again, that’s a safety-risk call you have to make. If you see something, try to extract it with needle nose pliers, chopsticks, or other finger-like tool. Inspect carefully around the impellers and the impeller plate, particularly the small gap between the plate and the side wall of the chamber. Next, look inside the disposer with a flashlight to see if you can spot the source of the jam. As an extra precaution, you can turn off the circuit that serves the disposer at your home’s electrical service panel (breaker box), and that’s up to your discretion. The first step-always-is to make sure the disposer’s power switch is off. Alleviating most jams takes just a few minutes. When a jam occurs, the disposer may shut down via an internal “breaker” switch, or the motor will keep running to no avail, causing that humming noise, which isn't good for the motor. This is where little things like fruit pits, gravel and staples lodge, providing more resistance than the disposer motor can handle. Something really hard may have gotten stuck between the impellers-the swiveling metal “teeth” that chew up the food scraps-and the side wall of the grinding chamber or, more likely, between the wall and the plate beneath the impellers. If yours stops spinning and either doesn’t work at all or makes a worrisome humming noise, you're probably just dealing with a jammed garbage disposal. Garbage disposals (or more properly, food disposers) are wonderfully simple appliances that almost never break down.
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