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Asbestos...I started fiddling with the top part after you said that, and Look what I found - The chrome knurled knob unscrewed from the rest of the chrome portion exposing the center brass rod with a fitting which can be turned with an ordinary seat removal tool. Bingo! (see the second...

No, Glenn. The brass and chrome portions can not be soldiered and could not have been soldiered or it would not be a pop-up! It is the brass portion sliding up and down in the chrome tube which allows the stopper to go up and down.

Perhaps I explained myself wrong. I can find no way to get the brass center post to turn when placed into the tub drain. Turning the chromed knurled knob, (which protrudes out when the pop-up is in the tub) only turns the chrome portion of the pop-up which then spins freely around the brass...

Our tubs have the kind of pop-ups that "Unscrew". I somehow removed one tub pop-up when trying to remove some hair and am afraid to replace it because I can not see any way to get turning tension on the inner brass post which spins freely inside the half-inch chrome tube. These are the...

Actually I saw a neat program on last night on Thisoldhouse I think, anyway PBS about a new adhesive solution for large areas of plaster which had cracked and separated from the wood lath. It involved drilling through the plaster at various points along the lath, injecting the special adhesive...