Up to my elbows in p** and w**

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..or sh** and P***, depending on where you come from.

Yes, the last week of my holiday was interupted by a blocked heads discharge pipe. Imagine manually pumping through 8 metres of outlet pipe! Yes, about 47 strokes of the pump! Of course, it was probably never done, hence approximately three metres of solids in the pipe! YUK. Wife and kids go home on the train and leave me to fix it. I replace the whole pipe (inc. solids weighed a ton), get it down to 4 metres (yes including anti-siphon loop) and replace manual pump with an electric conversion.

£300, 3 bottles of dettol and 1 day later, managed to salvage the last 3 days of hols.

Thanks to Bussels in Weymouth and Jabsco for rapid delivery of parts.

Anyone else got any tales of horror from the heads?


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Anyone else got any tales of horror from the heads?

Just dont, dont, go there!!

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Haydn
 
Got off lightly

Has this post been cleared by Haydn?

Consider yourself lucky, at least it didn't explode :-)

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Sail boat of my aquaintance decided on a long trip one year: "Let's go to Gibraltar, one hop". Somewhere about a hundred miles out across the Bay of Biscay the heads blocked. After some not very effective pumping, someone straightened out a coat hanger and pushed it down the outlet pipe to clear the blockage. Seemed to go quite easily, then stopped. "Put a bit of effort into it!" So they did, and the end of the coat hanger came out through the plastic tube, together with a fairly free flow of water coming in from outside. "Turn the seacock off!" Apparently the seacock had never been used or greased since it was installed, and mere hand pessure had no effect. But they had a piece of good solid steel tubing on board, so they put that onto the seacock lever as an extension. "OK, it's moving!" It was, not just the handle but the whole seacock as they sheared the mounting bolts. 100 miles offshore and a 1 1/2 inch hole in the bottom of the boat. Fortunately they had the recommended softwood bungs which saved the day until they reached northern Spain.

It turned out that the blockage was due to the precipitate resulting from mixing pee and salt water. It is important that all the effluent is cleared from the outlet pipe; it's not enough to just clear it from the bowl. And don't forget to operate all the seacocks every now and then!

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Did you get the "noisy" Jabsco conversion? I did. Now the whole marina knows when I **** . Even at 4.00 a.m.

Don't let this one get blocked. If you do, remember to switch off the power supply before clearing. I didn't. Trust me, it comes past the elbows!!

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The worst was when landlubber visitor for the week decided to put (used) tampon down the electric macerator pump despite strict advice not to put ANYTHING down there that she had not eaten or drunk. Though I hate the noise it makes, I certainly missed that sound ! Blew the fuse. An evening dismantling and mopping and swearing and fetching bits of cotton wool out with pliers and rebuilding and cursing and mopping.....
Are there signs available to show daft sister in law pictures of what NOT to shove down? The poor fish (and marina) don't need her cotton wool products!!


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