What to do when tools just won't fit?

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Cephus

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Get a brand new 3/4 inch wood chisel and a hammer and go to work on it. Tap it in the ccw direction any way you can until it either turns or splits. Avoid the iron pipe threads. At some point the nut will break, crack, or otherwise give you an opening to peel the sucker off the iron pipe. Remember it's a sacrificial chisel, and if you ruin it , it's cheaper than me driving over there from Atlanta to do it for you. Way cheaper.

That's essentially what I ended up doing, although without the chisel. I split the nut and could unscrew it with repeated hammer blows on a screwdriver shoved into the slot.
 

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When you connect the new drain, you need a brass "trap adapter" screwed on to the pipe and the trap slid through it and the slip nut tightened on the trap arm.
 
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