[C320-list] Electric Bilge Pump Inline Filter - Good Idea?

[Jeff Hare]

There's no filter in ours either.

I sort of feel like a screen on the end of the pickup hose would be a good
idea.  It would be easy to give it a shake or a wipe down to clear it.
Without a screen, debris that is too large to pump through can clog or jam
the pump, requiring disassembly to fix.  Not what you want when you're in
need of a bilge pump.  I'm not sure I'd want any kind of actual filter
assembly however.

-Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: C320-list [mailto:c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com] On Behalf
Of Amiraults Family
Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2015 4:21 PM
To: c320-list at lists.catalina320.com
Subject: [C320-list] Electric Bilge Pump Inline Filter - Good Idea?

All:

 

My electric bilge pump failed to move liquid and so I have removed it on
this last day I will be at the boat before spring - having also installed
the winter cover today. Research, including looking at photos posted on the
group website reveals that some C320 came as original with a filter between
the bilge and the electric pump. 'Waltzing Bear, too' never had one.

 

This leads me to wonder why Catalina discontinued the practice on the C320
by the time 797 rolled off the line. The question, is there some good reason
for NOT installing a filter between the pump and the bilge come spring when
my pump will be working again?

 

Brian Amirault

797 Waltzing Bear, too  



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