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I believe it's hydrochloric acid. Here, we'd ask for muriatic acid. Available at most hardware stores.

I think you have the answer as to what to do with feminine hygiene products. However, it's equally important that the same applies to EVERYTHING except body waste and LIMITED amounts of quick-dissolve TP. In fact, since women who have not been trained in the use of marine toilets seem to be...

[ QUOTE ] Don't let headmistress hear you! You are not allowed to use anything to clean sea-toilets, even water melts them into a pile of mushed up ceramic.In fact, take her advice and buy a bucket, but never ever clean that either. In fact, sell the boat. [/ QUOTE ] I've never said anything...

Either a Lavac or a Raritan PH II.

[ QUOTE ] When dissassembled most of the moving parts on the flushing side of the diaphram, the spindle, lever, springs etc, were coated with a sticky grease of a sort of cream colour. Is this a special sort of grease, or could I use something like stern-tube or seacock grease? [/ QUOTE ] I...

Heads I loose ! Re: Help installing heads please!!! I can't see how the pump could recycle waste thorugh the intake unless the bowl is full to the rim...'cuz water can only get into the bowl via the channel in the rim of the bowl. So I can't see what the length of the inlet hose between the...

If you have a leak in outbound connection to the vacuum pump, or any hose connection after the pump--into the holding tank, or out of the tank (HOLDING, not the vacuum tank), it would not create an air leak in your V/flush system. So what else besides the vacuum tank and pump and hoses going TO...

Hoses do become permeated with odorous gasses, but I've never heard of a hose soaking up urine or any other liquid like a sponge. Besides, if you did have a "weeping" hose, you'd also have an air leak in your V/Flush system. If your hoses don't stink at all, no need to replace 'em even though...

Don't even THINK of combining any part of your sanitation plumbing with your gray water plumbing...so you cannot incorporate a vented loop in it with your new toilet. Fwiw, at least 90% of boat toilets are at or below the waterline. To see how to plumb it correctly , go to the drawing on page...

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A friend wrote this wonderful treatise on tonnage: Tonnage has nothing to do with the weight of your boat. It is a measure of how much wine a vessel can carry. The word "tun" was originally a size of a cask used to ship wine from Spain & Portugal to England. In 1347 a tax of 3 shillings per...

You can prob'ly ordered one directly from Blake. Their contact info is here: http://www.blakes-lavac-taylors.co.uk/index.htm

I always used a bowline.

I'm familiar with Toilet Duck...it's one of a line of cleaning products made by SC Johnson, a US company. The MSDS for all the Toilet Duck products distributed in the UK are here: http://www.scjproducts.info/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=2699&brand=28&country_id2=2&archive=false I don't see anything in...

[ QUOTE ] Just a thought, if it is possible to lead the pipe up immediatly behind the heads, via a siphon break, and then down towards the holding tank - then all you need to 'pump' is up to the top of the loop - the rest is sorted out by gravity. PS - the downhill side should either be very...