Kitchen Sink Strainer Body Oozing Putty

I replaced a kitchen sink Strainer Body. I cleaned the plumbers putty from around the rim but periodically more putty oozes out. I have the Strainer Body retaining nut hand tightened as much as I'm able. The Strainer Body is slightly off center due to the slight misalignment of the tail pipe.

nut needs be more than hand tight unless you might have a cheap plastic strainer and the instruction explicitly said hand tighten only because it's poorly made and they don't want you to break it.

Mr_David said:

nut needs be more than hand tight unless you might have a cheap plastic strainer and the instruction explicitly said hand tighten only because it's poorly made and they don't want you to break it.

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The nut is plastic. I have read that wrenches should not be used on plastic plumbing nuts.

Wow Mr David nailed it. You are good!

JIMMIEM said:

The nut is plastic. I have read that wrenches should not be used on plastic plumbing nuts.

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a little common since, you know its plastic. so,,,,do not tighten it gorilla tite.

if your uncomfortable using a tool on it.

replace it with a metal model,,,

Like frodo said not gorilla tight but I always give them a snug with a wrench.
If it's oozing putting , give it a snug. wait a bit, give it another snug.

to much putty sometimes will also push the neoprene gasket out from between the sink and nut.
We used to get brass/stainless strainers that had thick gaskets and they would always squeeze out so we started replacing the gaskets with thinner ones and stopped buying the ones with thick gaskets.

I've seen several different styles on nut tools. Recommendation on which to buy? One of them has multifunction. Thank You.

pair of channel locks [plyers] open up alll the way.

sometimes, if you roll th puddy around in your hand, it warms up and gets soft
little easier to deal with