[C320-list] Locked out of the head?

[Jeff Hare]

That's why there's a port list on the 320.  So the potty is tilted above the water line and doesn't fill up and sink the boat.
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: C320-list [mailto:c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com] On Behalf Of millers1 at aol.com
Sent: Monday, May 8, 2017 6:01 PM
To: C320-List at Catalina320.com
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Locked out of the head?

Yes the overboard system will bleed back via the macerator impeller, fill the holding tank and backup into the head. What your pumping via the overboard valve is 
pretty likely to foul a check valve over time.   Think of the impeller as a check valve and that
leaks back to tank.
However, what I am interested in knowing...... has any one checked to see if the head rim is above or below
the boat waterline.   A rough guesstimate looks like mine rim is 2" above the waterline (?).


Art                      Liberty,  #698



-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Helfman <genehelfman at gmail.com>
To: C320-List <C320-List at catalina320.com>
Sent: Mon, May 8, 2017 5:42 pm
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Locked out of the head?

Been there, done that.  Only about 5 minutes of real panic before calming
down enough to come up with the same solution.

But here's a new one we discovered yesterday.  If after you pump out the
holding tank (legally of course) and "someone" forgets to close the outflow
valve, external water pressure is sufficient to eventually fill the holding
tank up from the outside until the toilet overflows. I would have thought
there was a check valve that didn't permit that but found out I was wrong.

Satori, #498, 1997

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Graeme Clark <cg at skyflyer.co.uk> wrote:

> I was idly lubricating the small lock on the inside of the heads which had
> pretty much jammed up over the years with corrosion and slammed the door
> shut from the outside with the catch in the locked position - doh!
>
> The hatch was shut so no way to access the inside
>
> Fortunately I had refinished the door varnish over winter and had noticed
> when I removed the lock to do that, that it works by preventing the square
> bar  that connects the two handles from turning rather than acting on the
> door catch itself
>
> So if you ever do this, the trick is to remove the outer door handle
> (Allen key grub screw) and push the bar right thru the lock until it and
> the inner handle drop on the floor of the head. You can then turn the lock
> mechanism using a suitable sized screwdriver in the square hole!
>
> Phew!!!
>
> Graeme
> #366, 1996
>
> Sent from mobile: please excuse typos etc.!
>
>
>


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