Oh, swell! Now you have opened the flood gates of really bad jokes! Gary On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Joel Aronson <[email protected]>wrote:
> Makes sense, but I am truly disappointed that we have only had one toilet > joke in this entire thread! > > Joel > Sent from my iPad > > On Sep 13, 2012, at 4:13 PM, Gary Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > > There is another possibility to consider. In the case of my boat there > were times when the level of the effluent in the tank was above the bowl in > the tank. In my case the tank is transverse in the boat (head on the port > side) and when on starboard tack the fitting on the port side of the tank > is submerged and the effluent pressure goes back to the joker valve. The > joker valves are never perfect and they will leak some. What I did is run > a pipe through the tank from the head fitting in the tank to the opposite > side of the tank, so the fitting is on the port side but the pickup is on > the starboard side. Then when on starboard tack the effluent sloshes to > port and the pickup is out of the effluent. When on port tack, the pickup > is submerged, but is below the level of the head so it doesn't matter. > That solved the problem for me. Does that description make any sense to > anybody? > > Gary > S/V Expresso > '75 C&C 35 Mk II > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Wally Bryant <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yup, it's not just salt, but an extraordinary amount of excess minerals >> are excreted through the kidneys (think about kidney stones,) and can build >> up in the hoses and the tank as well. For the last couple of years I have >> done an annual job of flushing a bunch of fresh water through the system, >> and then pouring about four gallons of cheap white vinegar down the head. >> I make sure some is in the bowl, and that the hoses are full of it. I let >> it sit for a day or two, then flush the whole system with fresh water. >> After that job I need to disassemble the pump and lubricate the O-rings >> with silicone grease. >> >> This particular problem sounds like a bad joker valve, though. >> >> Wal >> >> >> you wrote: >> >>> Salt from urine crystallizes on your joker valve >>> and the joker valve leaks back. Ideally we are supposed to flush clean >>> water thru but it never happens on the Great Lakes when you are trying >>> to conserve holding tank space. >>> >> >> >> -- >> s/v Stella Blue >> www.wbryant.com >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album >> http://www.cncphotoalbum.com >> [email protected] >> > > > > -- > ~~~~~~~_/)~~~~~~ > > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > [email protected] > > -- ~~~~~~~_/)~~~~~~
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