[C320-list] Mascerator
Greg Flanagan
greg.flanagan at shaw.ca
Tue Oct 14 13:31:56 PDT 2014
Yes.
# 1076
> On Oct 14, 2014, at 9:24 PM, "tharrison at innovations-plus.com" <tharrison at innovations-plus.com> wrote:
>
> Yes
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> 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
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