Pete C wrote in
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Needs covering with a 'basket' though.



Speaking of "baskets", I like the idea of putting the bilge pump into a
basket made of coarse plastic screen much larger than the bilge pump.
This makes a larger filter to keep the trash out of the pump so it
doesn't clog so fast as the tiny basket it comes with and keeps the pump,
itself, clean of trash so you don't have to disassemble and clean it.
Pick up the pump out of the basket, pull the basket out of the bilge and
clean it on the dock with the hose and replace it easily. The 12 slots
in the bottom of the pump never get clogged up and the large surface of
the basket takes a lot of clogging before you must clean it.

If you bilge, like ours, is too deep to reach the pump 5 ft down, suspend
the basket with the pump in it on a line so you can pick the whole affair
up to reach it.

Lionheart's bilge stays cleaner than the old Endeavours because the sink
water drains all that Dawn grease cutting dishwater into the main pump,
constantly dissolving any oil and grease into pumpable liquids. It also
keeps the bilge fresh from smelling like a swamp. Use anti-bacterial
Dawn and it kills the little stinkers sloshing around down there. You
have to be careful to use a sink strainer to keep the solids from going
down the drain. It would be nice to have an easily removable strainer in
the sink drain.