[C320-list] Mascerator

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> On Oct 14, 2014, at 1:29 PM, Elizabeth Schwartz <schwartz781 at optonline.net> wrote:
> 
> 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 
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>> 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