[C320-list] Mascerator

[Elizabeth Schwartz]

Ahoy....I am just getting around to install a macerator in #245, that I 
have had for 1 year. I plan to only use it when pump out facility is not 
available, I am planning on installing the power switch near the 
macerator and the thu hull just forward of the holding tank. As I plan 
to only open the thru hull when pumping overboard, I am not planning on 
installing a vented loop. Do you folks have a  vented loop in this line? 
Thanks.....Joe 


On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Bronwen Young wrote:

> Our macerator was seized when we bought our boat in 2012 (built in 
> 1995).  I replaced it.  Fairly easy to do.
> This Spring, 2014, it stopped evacuating the holding tank.  I took it 
> out and brought it home.  I needed to remove
> some fibrous material and a fair number of hairs from its metal plate 
> and choppers.  Then I checked it in a bucket.
> It very nicely shot a whole bunch of water into a second bucket.
>
> Moral: they may run for years, but they may need to be cleaned every 
> once in a while.
>
> Hope this helps.  Oh, when you are retightening the hose clamps, 
> finish off with a socket set.  Just using a
> screwdriver won’t get them tight enough.
>
> Eric and Bronwen
> FanaSea #198