How many strokes for the toilet?

[Navatech]

Part is straightforward, to the diverter valve for the black tank, but I reckon the main 4.5m run was put in place, and then the boat was built around it.

Not that hard really (unless step # 1 isn't doable):

1. Make sure the old hose isn't regidly connected along its line. If it is, release the connections.
2. Get a double sided barbed hose connector.
3. Remove the old hose from one end.
4. Connect the new hose to the old hose using the double sided connector. Use at least double if not triple bands. Wrap the whole double sided connector assembly (I use 3" duct tape) to prevent snagging.
5. Go to the other side of the old hose and use it to pull the new hose.
6. Reconnect any connections undone in step # 1.
7. Cut the new hose to size and reconnect (both sides).

 

[NormanS]

Not that hard really (unless step # 1 isn't doable):

1. Make sure the old hose isn't regidly connected along its line. If it is, release the connections.
2. Get a double sided barbed hose connector.
3. Remove the old hose from one end.
4. Connect the new hose to the old hose using the double sided connector. Use at least double if not triple bands. Wrap the whole double sided connector assembly (I use 3" duct tape) to prevent snagging.
5. Go to the other side of the old hose and use it to pull the new hose.
6. Reconnect any connections undone in step # 1.
7. Cut the new hose to size and reconnect (both sides).

Great, I'll get you to come and do it. I suspect that even you might struggle with it, as in several places the hose passes through holes the same size as itself, so no hoseclips can be used to join the new to the old. One possible idea is to use a short wooden plug, and join the hose with that, and csk screws. The heads is a moulded unit, with no access under or around it. Similarly, a battery box base, under which it disappears into a hose-sized hole, so I have no idea whether the hose is "rigidly connected" or not.

Actually, changing the hose is low on the priorities list. The hose doesn't leak, and at present is doing its job. The main thing is to prevent it from furring up in the future. Thanks all the same.

 

[nigelmercier]

One possible idea is to use a short wooden plug, and join the hose with that, and csk screws...

Top tip! Send it to PBO.

 

[Heckler]

They do indeed. I'm told a "toilet" is how some people refer to a lavatory.

Angola, early 80s, Coonarse superv, kept on going on about the lavatory in his Portakabin room. I thought silly boy, you havent got a shi tter in your room, he did have a wash hand basin. Turns out that in Louisiana, wash hand basins are called lavatories! Suspect the naming comes from the old fashioned french they still speak, lavatoire?
Stu

 

[prv]

Turns out that in Louisiana, wash hand basins are called lavatories!

Does make more sense - the word literally means "place for washing". I guess it got applied to toilets in this country as a euphemism - more acceptable than whatever would be "place for ****ting"

Pete

 

[Navatech]

Great, I'll get you to come and do it.

No problem at all. How much are you offering for the job? And what about traveling expenses if required

One possible idea is to use a short wooden plug, and join the hose with that, and csk screws.

Yep. if that's the case I would stick a suitable dowel in the pipe and secure the pipes to the dowel with some flat headed screws.

The heads is a moulded unit, with no access under or around it.

A head that can't be serviced? Who came up with that "great" idea?!...

I have no idea whether the hose is "rigidly connected" or not.

If you loosen one of the ends it's easy enough to find out. Tugging it will tell you.

Actually, changing the hose is low on the priorities list. The hose doesn't leak, and at present is doing its job. The main thing is to prevent it from furring up in the future. Thanks all the same.

I wasn't suggesting that you should do it any time soon. However, I'm pretty certain that there's still crud in the pipe and that will cause clogs. Also, "black water" in the hose is the number one reason for boat that smell like ****. Practically all hoses are permeable to a certain degree... But hey, I was just trying to help you. No reason to get snotty.

 

[NormanS]

Well, hello again. I wasn't aware that I was getting "snotty".

The "Heads" is the name given to the compartment, not the apparatus contained within it. The apparatus can be serviced quite easily.

I have had both ends disconnected, in order to clear the blockage, using the snake, but as I said, the hose goes through several tight holes, so I have so far not been able to tell if it's fixed in place or not. Tugging has told me nothing.

I can assure you that my boat does not smell like ****.

Thanks again, and have a nice day.