What a day!

Kitchen faucet has been leaking for a while. Had tried to take it off using basin wrench, but to no avail. Disposer was not working neither, keep humming... It is stuck I knew, but I was not able to turn the flywheel at all. It's really stuck!

So, took a day off, and decided to take off the disposer for better access to the faucet bottom.

After sending daughter to school, dropped by HomeDepot to buy again a basin wrench and new faucet at 8:50am.

Took off the disposer and now I had better access. This is the nut giving me all the troubles.

I decided basin wrench will not work. Adjustable wrench won't work. So I went to HomeDepot again to buy 18,19,20mm wrenches after some very difficult measurements. Damn too big!

Measured again, went to Home Depot to buy 13,14,15mm wrenches. Damn too small.

Went to home depot again, 16mm eventually fit!

And without much effort (why it was so difficult when I used adjustable wrench?), the nut is off and was able to pull off the old faucet.

 It is 3pm already!

Installed this $139 (before tax) new faucet. Easy and straight forward

Now the disposer: Tried to disassemble. Shit, forgot the orientation of the circuit connector. If not doing well, probably will short.

  Too frustrated to try to make the flywheel turn again... So decided to buy a new one. Fifth visit to HomeDepot! Then I was told I need to buy extra power cord for the new disposer. I decided not to have disposer but rebuild the pipes. So bought plummer's putty, glue, and some pipes... But after loading everything in the car park, I realized I forgot to have a part for dishwasher to connect to. Too frustrated again, damn, let me return everything and buy a new disposer and power cord.

Arrived home and tried to assemble the new disposer and realized how a normal flywheel rotates. So I tried again to rotate the flywheel in the old one and it rotated after exerting tremendous force. Great!!! Now I can return the new disposer and save another >$100!

Installed the old one and now everything looks the same but faucet not leaking anymore and disposer is working! 5:30pm and it's time to pick up daughter from after school.

 Rewarded myself with Tam's Cafe's 大哥大豬扒 and ate like a dog!

Tonight will sleep like a log.

Thanks to HomeDepot, the people there taught me many things but also sometimes misguided me. I kept buying the wrong wrench was also because one of the assistants insisted the nut must be standard 1/2 inches per side. So used my trigonometric knowledge to calculate what wrench size should be. And garbage in garbage out. But anyway, I bought 18 items today and I returned 16 of them, keeping only the new faucet and the 16mm wrench which worked.

Costs:

New Faucet including tax ~ $150
16mm wrench including tax ~ $3.3
4 extra visits to HomeDepot to-and-fro ~ 20miles ~ 1 gallon of gas ~ $4

Get everything fixed: Wife's response: What a waste of time! Why didn't you hire a plummer?