[C320-list] Ball valve under the sink

[Mike Paris]

I regards to a "handful of play dough": Someone once told me to keep a box 
of the wax used to install toilets on board for such emergencies. 
Fortunately, I haven't had to see if it works or not yet. It's in the form 
of a ring and available for a couple of dollars at Home Depot.

Mike P
#734
Southern Cal

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Frost" <john at frostnet.net>
To: <C320-List at Catalina320.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Ball valve under the sink


> The handle mechanism on my holding tank thru hull came off and almost sank
> us. The entire mechanism cracked and came off and water shot in on a two
> year old boat. The resulting hole was very irregular and I had a heck of a
> time slowing the water entry. (A handful of play dough would have been
> wonderful)
>
> Post event, Forespar was helpful and shipped me a new one but said it had
> never happened before.
> I dug into it and they are properly certified to a tuff standard so I 
> can't
> imagine there being a design problem.
>
> I chalked mine up to some unusual loading on the handle being induced by 
> my
> zip tieing the handle to an adjacent hose to show that
> it was not dumping overboard. Nothing touches my handles now.
>
> Our story turned out fine because of a few good luck events.
> 1. I had finally gotten around to replacing my defective bilge pump the 
> week
> before
> 2. Our marina's lift, which had been broken for weeks, had just been
> repaired
> 3. Our marina operator was sitting at the clubhouse with his cell phone
> ready to respond to my urgent plea to be ready for an emergency 
> extraction.
> 4. My wife was ready to bring us in thru traffic at near full throttle 
> while
> I fought the stream of water trying to fill the bilge
>
> By the way
>
>
> Happy Sailing!
>
> John
> 2007 C320MKII
> Hull 1118
> Guntersville, AL
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com
> [mailto:c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com] On Behalf Of Richard A.
> Walsh
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 4:17 PM
> To: C320-List at Catalina320.com
> Subject: [C320-list] Ball valve under the sink
>
> When at the boat last weekend had the handle break off.  I noticed on the 
> 34
> web site that there have been problems with the forespar ball valves
> breaking off at the handles.  Has anyone else experienced?  When I called
> Catalina parts they informed me only had one in stock, which increased my
> consern.
>
>