[C320-list] Water System 1996 #361
Colin Evans
twosailors at bigpond.com
Tue Apr 23 14:40:22 PDT 2013
For what it`s worth. I drain the tanks by taking the whale connections
apart at the isolation valves under the sink, and let the water run into the
bilge which I pump out manually. The auto bilge pump only pumps out about a
litre then the float cuts the thing out. It also proves that the manual
bilge pump is clear and working. Something we don`t use too often ( I hope)
The thought of having the water pressure pump pumping out 160 litres is not
appealing.
I wipe around the inside of the tanks with a cloth soaked in bleach and
rinse twice .
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Regards
Colin Evans
Watermark
2000 C320 # 774
Lake Macquarie, Australia
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Thanks!
Ok will go with 3/4 cup bleach in gallon of water in each fill each with
water, open both valves and then run till I smell bleach/chlorine, then fill
whatever I drained. Over nite wait, drain, fill, drain, fill... Done. I
leave forward one empty unless long cruise so will drain that. Sound ok?
-Tim
Ole'
#928
On Apr 23, 2013, at 2:18 PM, dprudden at comcast.net wrote:
Tim,
Basically, 3 days ago, I pumped out any/all antifreeze I could get out, put
a couple of gallons of water into each tank, then pumped that out, repeating
that step twice to clear out as much antifreeze as I could. I then took a
bucket of water (about a gallon, and added about 3/4 cup of bleach to the
water, and poured that into the 2 tanks. I then filled both tanks with
water, pressurized the system, and left it overnight. I then pumped out each
tank, refilled with water, pumped out again. Another quick spray inside each
tank and a pumpout and I think the system is ready to go this year.
David Prudden
#787
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From: "Tim Fleming" <timfleming at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 4:49:13 PM
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Water System 1996 #361
Thanks but both of these I find a bit vague and confusing. Anyone have
better, specific instructions to clean out our specific size Cat 320 (2)
water tanks? (Bleach to water ratio in a bucket?) Wonder if peroxide would
be better too .. Just wondering.
Also if you run it to empty it could cause a vacuum prob air pocket and one
has to re-prime the pump some how (had that happen once blew water into into
it- yuck and unsafe I am sure). So again, anyone have better?
-Tim
Ole'
#928
On Apr 23, 2013, at 8:58 AM, "Karl Mielenhausen" <kmielen at suddenlink.net>
wrote:
I always trust advice from the Head Mistress, Peggy Hall, although you may
have difficulty measuring deciliters!
The official Catalina version can be found on page 19 of this pdf...
http://www.catalina320.com/filemgmt_data/files/C320%20Manual2006%2022to63.pd
f
Basically similar procedures, a weak bleach solution to allow about 70 ppm
sodium hypochlorite as a shock (Peggy's works out to 375 ppm).
Pre-dilute it any way you want as long as you wind up with around 70 ppm in
the tank (taking into account that the bleach is already usually a 5%
solution).
I'm told that cruisers like to take dry pool chlorine along for this task.
I use this procedure every spring, allowing the treated tanks to sit
overnight. I empty and refill and have found it unnecessary to flush the
tanks as any residual chlorine has been diluted 100:1 and disappears
quickly.
Karl
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:23 AM, dprudden <dprudden at comcast.net> wrote:
> This is what I followed this year:
>
> http://www.bethandevans.com/pdf/phall_freshwater.pdf
>
>
> David Prudden
> #787
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Apr 23, 2013, at 11:02 AM, Gene Helfman <genehelfman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Related to the water tank valve location issue: what do people normally
> do
>> regarding disinfecting/cleaning water tanks? The former owner of Satori
>> (#398) would hit them with bleach each year, quantity unknown. First
> mate
>> fears residual chlorox odors and taste and we're water limited on our
>> island and so I don't know how much flushing should go on, how full a
>> "bleached" tank needs to be to do the job, etc. Opinions, practices,
>> necessities?
>>
>> thanks,
>> gene
>> Satori, #398, 1997
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:34 AM, Irving Grunes <igrunes at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>> From the factory the valves are portside under the aft berth.
>>> A bit of a pain to get to.
>>> Some have moved them to under the galley sink.
>>> Irv
>>> 2001 #851
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Kirk Mueller <kirkm753 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello All,
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know if the two water tanks feed the water system at the
> same
>>>> time or are there valves to isolate each one ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Kirk Mueller
>>>> #363 1996 Second Chance
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Gene Helfman, Professor Emeritus
>> Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia
>> PERMANENT address:
>> 498 Shoreland Dr., Lopez Is., WA 98261
>> (360) 468-2136
>> genehelfman at gmail.com
>>
>> "You noticed nobody gives a damn about beached minnows."
>
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