Ick... I replaced a joker valve on Bojangles last week that was about half as bad as that, and that was still pretty gross.
(I don't know why they're called joker valves... Whenever I'm dealing with them, it's never funny) Cheers Colin On 3/30/13, Wally Bryant <[email protected]> wrote: > Just to revisit an thread from six months ago. Check out this picture: > <http://www.wbryant.com/temp/badhose.jpg> This isn't my boat, but > someone else had head problems and pulled this hose out of the boat. > I've never seen it this bad. The hose was 8 years old. > > I didn't mention this before -- at the risk of giving out Too Much > Information -- but I avoid #1 in the head. (Here's the TMI part....) > Being a guy, it's best to just hang it over the side. And when in > marinas, I use a big water jug in the head and dump it overboard at > night. You'd be amazed at the amount of crystallized minerals at the > bottom of the jug after a few iterations. > > With women on board, of course, there's a different set of rules, so > it's important to flush enough water through the hoses to clear human > waste entirely through the hoses and into the tank. > > Wal > > On 9/13/2012 I 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.<snip> >> >> >> 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] > -- Sent from my mobile device _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com [email protected]
