I assume you're talking about screening any debris in the bilge and preventing it from clogging the bilge pump. I bought a piece of galvanized wire mesh that had 1/4" square holes at the hardware store. I cut it and bent it to form an enclosure that I fitted over the sump pump and I never had anymore problems other than having to occasionally clean the screen cover. This option has considerable free area for the water to flow around any debris that would otherwise obstruct the pump suction. Cheers , Bob
--- On Wed, 8/20/08, Densler, Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Densler, Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Liveaboard] Fay To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2008, 12:54 PM So far so good with Fay. No damage to the boat just some rain water in one of the hulls from my various window and other leaks. The bilge pump quit at some point. I guess it just had more than it can take. I am looking at the 12 volt utility pumps at Harbor Freight and thinking about using them instead of these crappy plastic pumps. The only thing is that the bilge strainers are way over priced for what they are. Does anyone know of anything that that can be made to work as a strainer or places to get cheap ones? West wants $25.00 for a cheap plastic strainer and that is just insane. Vern_______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
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