Bit of a Sh*t question really

[martynwhiteley]

Finally got round to visiting to local pump-out station today.

(well you don't want to be sailing round with a tank full of the previous owners c**p aboard do you?)

You should have seen the girls face in the marina shop when I asked her if I could have a pump out. She must have been dreading someone wanting one on such a hot nice day, but had to oblige. It was a mobile one with long lengths of hoses to uncoil, not very pleasant!

Typical problems with american standards though, and we couldn't get the hose to fit properly. They had a threaded adaptor that looked just the job, but the threads were a very small amount too big for the hole.

Anyone managed to get the correct adaptor for a Rinker, or solved it by other means?



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[abraxus]

I've got a Bayliner and the adaptor I bought seems to work ok. I can't remember which one it was, but there seemed to be only two sizes available so maybe the if you try the other size it will work. If I remember the two sizes came in different colours and the one that works for me is the white one.

I did begrudge paying 18 quid for a 50p piece of plastic though.

Before getting that I found that a rubber sealing ring stretched around the nozzle seemed to created enough of a seal to manage a pump out.

Bill

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[ArthurWood]

To overcome the problem of various sizes many marinas and public pumpout stations over here use a conical rubber adapter which is simple pushed into the pumpout hole and held there during pumpout

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[BrendanS]

Nice to know the Yanks get it right every so often <g> That's a serious comment by the way!!..just for once

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[ArthurWood]

Bit of an exaggeration, IMHO, Brendan. For day-to-day living and general level of service and availability of stuff to make easy living they get a lot of things right; far more than in the good 'ol UK.

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[boatone]

There's two obvious places to go for an answer to this question:
1)<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.leesan.com/pump_out/index.php>Lee Sanitation</A>........and

2)<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.ybw.com/cgi-bin/forums/showprofile.pl?Cat=&User=HeadMistress&Number=561817&Board=mby&what=showthreaded&page=&view=&sb=&o=&vc=1>Peggie Hall</A> ...aka HeadMistress and poster hereabouts......as Peggie is in the USA she may have more immediate knowledge of US product.

....what those two dont know about sh*t probably aint worth knowing but any deficiencies in their knowledge can probably be filled in by hlb /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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[HeadMistress]

You rang?

The problem is, we use feet and inches, and you use the metric system...so an X milimeter pumpout connector won't quite fit a 1.5" diameter threaded deck pumpout fitting. Forturnately it's not too difficult a problem to solve...at least, it won't be if your marina pumpout hose has a cam fitting to attach adapters.

The West Marine site shows 3: http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/SiteSearch?keyword=pumpout adaptor&advanced=YES&searchDeptId=11

I'm not suggesting you necessarily get it from them, but at least you'll know exactly what you're looking for. Click on "more info" under each one to know what size it is.

To know which one you need, measure the inside diameter of your deck pumpout fitting (or the outside diameter of the cap)...most likely it's 1.25" Also count the threads per inch...unless your boat was built before the early 1980s, that's almost certain to be 11 (the only other choice is 16).

Or you can buy a "universal" neoprene cone type fitting...which is ok in a pinch, but can be a problem in some marinas where it's awkward to do 'cuz you have to hold it jammed tight into the deck fitting to maintain suction....whereas, the others thread in...you only have to reach it to connect and disconnect.

I suggest you buy two...it's all too easy to lose one. And while you're ordering, get a couple of spare caps for your deck fitting too. There's no chain on pump out fittings (a chain would prevent the tank from being pumped out) to keep 'em from going into the water if you drop it.

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[martynwhiteley]

Re: You rang?

Thanks to Peggy and all others for the good help and advice.

I may try and get an adaptor made up in our machine shop at work (boss's privilage!).

Interestingly Peggy (the Boats a Rinker BTW), there was a chain attached to the cap!

It almost resulted in me losing the cap ironically, 'cos after I'd unscrewed it and left it resting on what I thought was a captivated chain, puzzling how you could pump it out with a chain attached, the cap suddenly lurched downwards, and the broken end of the chain appeard from the smelly hole!

Presumably a previous owner had broken the chain to effect a pump out, and/or it used some ingeniuos self locking system that allowed easy detatchment, but I wasn't going to look down there, or feel too closely to try and find out!

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