INPUT ARTICLE: Article: If your model is freestandingmeaning it's finished on all sides and can stand alone like a piece of furniturethe shutoff valve is typically located on the water line that connects the tub to the faucets. For other models, you will have to turn off the bathroom water valve behind the toilet or sometimes the entire home's water supply. Be sure to open up the tub faucet until no more water runs out of it before moving forward. Typically, the overflow plate is circular and connected to your tub with 1 to 2 screws that hold the stopper lever in place. Use a screwdriver to remove these screws along with the plate. Afterward, use your fingers to remove the lever hook from the linkage bar and then unscrew or pull the stopper to remove it. The stopper is the piece that seals the tub when you need to fill it with water. The drain flange is the finished part of the drain that is visible in the bottom of the tub. Insert a removal tool or pair of pliers into the flange, twist it counterclockwise, and pull it out. Head to a home hardware store and purchase a dedicated drain flange removal tool. If your tub is freestanding, use a reciprocating saw and metal blade to cut off the drainpipe about 2 to 3 inches (5.1 to 7.6cm) from the location closest to the bottom of the tub. If your tub is built-in to your home, access the bottom of the tub via a crawlspace or basement and twist the pipe loose with water pump pliers or a pipe wrench. Remember that your new tub will have new piping. With that in mind, never cut the plumbing that's connected to your home. Rock the reciprocating saw up and down as you cut to move faster. Be sure to grip the handle firmly with your dominant hand and hold the front grip tightly with your non-dominant hand to guide to saw. Focus on keeping a tight grip on the saw while applying pressure to the tool. Make sure the saw's shoe (the flat edges parallel to the blade that guide it) is pressed tightly against the piping to reduce vibrations. Wear gloves and a safety mask when using a reciprocating saw.

SUMMARY: Turn off the water supply via the shutoff valve. Remove the stopper and overflow assembly. Take off the drain flange with a removal tool or pair of needlenose pliers. Remove the drainpipe from your cast iron tub.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Now that you've located a few therapists, it's time to contact and interview them. You can do this through an initial consultation, but it might be better and more cost effective to vet your therapist through a very short phone call in which you ask a few questions. Ask them if they have any LGBT friends or family. Ask them if they are up to date on the latest scholarly work in their field on LGBT issues. Ask them if they've worked with other LGBT people. Ask them if they are comfortable talking about LGBT issues and if their personal or religious feelings might get in the way. Above all, ask them to be as open an honest with you, as you will be with them. After you've interviewed your therapist, you need to schedule an appointment in order to have more time to evaluate them and your comfort level with them. If you don't feel comfortable, and the therapist did not address all of your concerns and seem sympathetic, then you should go else where. After your initial visit, consider the following: Did this person seem at ease with you? Did they talk openly about your sexuality or gender identity? Did you feel comfortable? Your therapist should not reinforce negative messages prevalent in society about LGBT people. They should suggest positive coping strategies to deal with the discrimination you experience. Positive coping strategies can include: Setting boundaries with harmful people in your life. Joining an LGBT group. Finding volunteer work in the community. Now that you've researched, interviewed, and chosen your therapist and decided you are comfortable with that person, you should commit to a course of therapy. Working through your issues, whatever they might be, will probably not be a quick or easy process. Therapy is often an ongoing process and it might take months or even years to begin to work through your problems. As long as you are in a positive and affirming relationship with your therapist and you feel it is helping you heal and grow, you should stick with the process!

SUMMARY: Interview prospective therapists before you commit. Visit your therapist. Gauge your therapist's perspective and their intentions. Commit to the process of therapy.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Sometimes your yarn gets tangled between the bobbin and the flyer. Basically this means that your treadling isn't even (which happens a lot with first time spinners!). Break off the yarn, hook it back up, and start over again. This can also happen because the bobbin is too full, which causes the yarn to spill over the edges of the bobbin and tangle around the shaft. Empty the bobbin as you would normally and start fresh. Sometimes when you're spinning you lose the end. Don't fret! Roll your bobbin around a few times. Often the end is under the last hook that it was over. Try using a piece of tape to see if you can pull up the loose end. This solution works about half the time. Otherwise, pick the most likely end and pull enough yarn for a new leader so you can start again. If your yarn is lumpy and bumpy it means that you aren't spinning it consistently. You might be pulling out too much fiber. If so, what you need to work on is getting into a consistent rhythm for spinning. Some of the same problems happen in handspinning that happen with a spinning wheel. Sometimes there is a different way of fixing it as opposed to a spinning wheel (for example, you don't have the flyer and the bobbin and so those types of tangles aren't typical). Spindle gets away from you. If your spindle gets away from you and the twists runs up into the fiber mass, stop your spindle and untwist your fiber mass. Then, start the drafting again. This is a very common occurrence for beginners. If you have thick and thin spots in your yarn (known as slubs), you can do something like keep them and have a novelty yarn (good for knitting scarves). Otherwise you can remove the slubs by pinching the yarn with your hands on either side of the slub and untwisting until the fibers draft out a little. Over-twisted yarn is a common beginner's problem. You can tell your yarn is over-twisted if you have a thick strand that feels very hard and dense. The strand can kink back on itself when you relax your tension. To fix this, loosen some of the extra twist by drafting out more fibers.

SUMMARY:
Avoid yarn that gets tangled. Find your lost end. Do something about your lumpy thread. Trouble-shoot your handspinning.