Part I I recently purchased a home and inherited a number of "problems", some big and some small. The drain in my bathtub was malfunctioning. Standing in ankle deep water in the shower was irritating and started my day on the wrong foot. Thoughts of the expense of a plumber plagued my shrinking checkbook. One afternoon I decided to take a look into this problem for myself. I tried pressing down and lifting up on the tub stopper which had a rubber ring underneath the