Cure squeaky stiff Jabsco toilet

[davidej]

normal oder is restored.

Order, odour or ordure?

 

[Toutvabien]

Order, odour or ordure?

very good!!

 

[l'escargot]

Take more olive oil in your diet. Saves a lot of fiddling about with toilets :encouragement:

 

[mjcoon]

Jabsco say 7 strokes per metre.

Per metre of what? Surely we don't have to measure our number twos?

Mike.

 

[BlueSkyNick]

I used to lubricate ours with the grease that replaced the (Duckhams??)one used for stern glands, might well have been an axle grease, it was waterproof and I bought mine from the auto spares shop top of quay hill in lymington where it joins the High street. Peggy Hall, otherwise the all things 'loo' lady and called 'headmistress' on the fora of old recommended using a teflon grease regularly but the principle is much the same.

Was it called 'Morrisons'??

No its called Hilliards.

Safeway became Morrisons for a short while but is now Waitrose.

 

[Robin]

No its called Hilliards.

Safeway became Morrisons for a short while but is now Waitrose.

That doesn't ring a bell but I do now remember the original stuff I used was Duckhams 'Keenol' which they took off the market.

 

[Seajet]

Per metre of what? Surely we don't have to measure our number twos?

Mike.

You haven't seen the latest Euro-Directive then ? Diameter & flexibilty too !

 

[Robin]

You haven't seen the latest Euro-Directive then ? Diameter & flexibilty too !

HOw about curvature colour and concentricity?

 

[trapezeartist]

I tried the hot water treatment at the weekend. It didn't work. Maybe I didn't leave the hot water in the bowl for long enough.

Then I tried a little washing up liquid. That did work, but not as well as cooking oil.

As removal of the piston is so easy (and hopefully not too repulsive) I think I'll give it a go with a dob of waterproof grease.

 

[Robin]

I tried the hot water treatment at the weekend. It didn't work. Maybe I didn't leave the hot water in the bowl for long enough.

Then I tried a little washing up liquid. That did work, but not as well as cooking oil.

As removal of the piston is so easy (and hopefully not too repulsive) I think I'll give it a go with a dob of waterproof grease.

It is very easy indeed unless you have a really really stoneage Jabsco that is without the moulded in 'nut' to give instant access to the piston for greasing.

 

[Daydream believer]

Has any old salt got some left over K jelly
That might help & has multi uses & does not rot the ring like grease-- I am told

 

[Daydream believer]

You haven't seen the latest Euro-Directive then ? Diameter & flexibilty too !

Apparently there are proposals that we should hang a cucumber in the heads as a comparison guide so users do not exceed allowable limits

 

[pathfinderstu]

vinegar plus veg oil seems to do the trick.:encouragement:

 

[Leighb]

A further point, if you decide to take off the pump, strip it down and reassemble with new valves etc., DO make sure you label the 2 identical size hoses that connect to the top of the pump.

If as I did, you fail to do this and swap them over by mistake, rather strange things happen.

SWMBO was not pleased.

 

[Stork_III]

vinegar plus veg oil seems to do the trick.:encouragement:

A squirt of Johnson's Baby Oil works well.

 

[pathfinderstu]

Has any old salt got some left over K jelly
That might help & has multi uses & does not rot the ring like grease-- I am told

what ring are we talking about here pls ? haha !

 

[Daydream believer]

what ring are we talking about here pls ? haha !

Really! Some peoples minds!!
What with some geezer playing with baby oil & you distorting the ring comment!!!

 

[mjcoon]

Really! Some peoples minds!!
What with some geezer playing with baby oil & you distorting the ring comment!!!

But I thought baby oil was culinary!

Mike.

 

[Bobc]

+1 for baby oil

Oi, pack that in. I meant down the loo.

 

[trapezeartist]

If olive oil comes from olives, and sunflower oil comes from sunflowers, where does baby oil come from?