--- In [email protected], Bruce Napier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> During our current sojourn at the Braidbar yard at Higher Poynton,
one
> of the jobs was investigating the sluggish performance of the
macerator
> toilet.
>
> Dismantling revealed a truly startling amount of limescale
throughout,
> which mainly had to be chipped out with a screwdriver. The
macerator
> blade, the plastic mesh cage and the output impeller were all
virtually
> cocooned in the stuff, after 2.5 years of use.
>
> Reassembly resulted in erratic behaviour, especially running on
> endlessly, and the controller/timer circuit board has now been
replaced
> - it looks as if the thumping, bumping and pressure washing had
> distressed the electronics beyond recall.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1) Why should a permanently wet and not very hot piece of kit
collect
> so much scale?
>
> 2) How can we stop it recurring, short of stripping the thing down
> every year?
>
> Any thoughts gratefully received.
>
> All the best
>
> Bruce
>
With only half a smiley attached :-
Get a dump through with decent sized breather pipeS and do NOT use
blue.
Tony Brooks
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