Filtering WC Inlet

[rickwat]

I'm thinking of fitting a water strainer to my toilet intake - same as raw water intake strainer for engine,Vetus Type 140 for 19mm id pipe. I am moved to try this after finding what looked like leeches under the rim. I would welcome any comments or advice.

Thanks

Rick


<hr width=100% size=1>

 

[webcraft]

ru sure they r leeches and not just the results of a mad night ashore culminating in a vindaloo?

- N

<hr width=100% size=1><font size=1><A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.bluemoment.com>http://www.bluemoment.com</A></font size=1>

 

[tcm]

Cripes webcraft, we will have to have nite out with you - you must've been well ratarsed to order Leech Vindaloo.

<hr width=100% size=1>

 

[tcm]

i'd be careful - you only need to filter for mechanical protection, and i wd worry that a filter might get blocked. If the filter gets blocked, then that's another ugh prob and its only a bg which is fine about er solid stuff going though it, even leeches. Esp with lecky bogs, calm water can mean that the exhust is sucked up by the inlet. But more fluishying thru, no prob. You may have to clean the bog from time to time!

Leeches? Really?

<hr width=100% size=1>

 

[Robin]

I'm considering the same this winter, not for leeches (!!) but our loo sucked in a load of very fine weed in Lymington earlier this season (quite common the HM guy said) and this totally blocked the system, our inlet pipe is very long. It took us hours and hours of poking and prodding coupled with umpteen dismantlings of the pump/valves and the Avon pump blowing back down the pipe to cure it. It hasn't happened again but if we had a filter at least those are easy to clean and if there is a short straight pipe run to the seacock it too can be rodded clear easily.

<hr width=100% size=1><font size=1>Sermons from my pulpit are with tongue firmly in cheek and come with no warranty!</font size=1>

 

[rickwat]

The vetus water strainer has a clear screw-off top so would be easy to inspect/maintain. I have one for the engine and only occcasionally have to clean it out. I just hope the toilet pump will create sufficient suction to enable a proper flow through the unit because I don't think the alternative way of an in-line filter would work very well (as suggested).

<hr width=100% size=1>

 

[Ships_Cat]

All our saltwater for galley use, refrigeration condensor and toilet flushing comes through a single filter of exactly the same type as the engine one. Never had any problem with it and it certainly does not let any critters through of worrying bottom biting size.

Is common practice in my experience.

John

<hr width=100% size=1>I am the cat but I am only 6.

 

[HeadMistress]

If your toilet is pulling in weeds and larger than microscopic sea creatures, a strainer is an excellent solution....it certainly beats wondering if you need to see a doctor! It also keeps animal and vegetable sea life from becoming trapped in the line, pump or rim of the bowl to die, decay and STINK! (Worst thing I ever smelled was a baby squid that had died in a head intake hose). Just remember that strainers have to be cleaned regularly or they become clogged. Mounting it above the waterline makes this task a bit easier, especially if your thru-hull is not in an easily accessible location.

Raritan makes an excellent toilet intake strainer...I don't know if it's sold in the UK, or how competitive the price is if it is.

<hr width=100% size=1>Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987

 

[andy_wilson]

Loo critters

Plankton sparkling down the loo in the dead of night is one thing.

Anybody ever sucked a jelly fish through?

<hr width=100% size=1>

 

[HeadMistress]

Re: Loo critters

That happens a lot on the Chesapeake Bay where jelly fish known as sea nettles can be as thick as noodles in chicken noodle soup. Trouble is, they rarely if ever make it all the way into the bowl...but get stuck in the line, the pump or the channel in the rim of the bowl and have to be cleaned out. It usually only requires doing that once to convince an owner to install a strainer.

<hr width=100% size=1>Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987

 

[rickwat]

Thanks to all - partic HM. I'll give it a go.

Rick

<hr width=100% size=1>