kitchen drain basket replacement

[anniebnutz61]

i have no help and can't\
get locknut off drain basket.. any ideas?

 

[breplum]

It’s all about having good tools if you want to DIY. There are specialty tools for those stupid nuts, or jumbo size channel locks, and you may need to have a opposing force, so the whole unit doesn’t spin and for that there are tools as well, like even needle nose, pliers.
The nut can also be sawn off.
We never ever use the big nut basket strainers any longer, much prefer the three screw variety.

 

[Pipe Dreams]

Them large nut type suck. I like the screw type or the deep type with the smaller nut.

Good luck OP, without the proper tool, it is a ***** even for a experienced plumber.