Skip Gundlach wrote:
Quite right - pragmatic, frugal and fact oriented.

I'm grateful for your link, as I spent a great deal of time trying to
find stuff which would work at anything approaching your pricing in
prior posts, and eventually gave up.

No problem. Glad to be of help. The pricing can be a problem at first
look. What worked best form me was find an idustrial hose supply. The
kind of place that sell nothing but hose. The hole idea is the same as
buying anchor chain. Forget West Marine and head to an industrial
supply that sell nothing but wire rope, chain, chain binders etc.

My PHII (with the same sort of plastic clamps and intake pipe as you
describe for the intake side)

Yea, aint it a bit shoddy. Maybe they just figure everyone is goign to
replace it any way so why put good stuff on the toilet.

head outflow is S40 PVC rigid, with head
connector of AVS96, slip joint at the Y valve from hard pipe to Y
(where the gap will be very small - butted up to each other), and
outflow valve of AVS96 connector, again, to the head leg of the Y.

I started to go that route too but having only a 39' boat the
flexibility of hose was the better choice for my tight spaces.

was very gratified to find that with a heat gun, it was very soft and
flexible and allowed me to make rather harder turns than otherwise.

I did not know the stuff could be bent???? Cool!

I'm guessing your 090 Spiralite would be the same way.

The 090 stuff is rather stiff. But with a little heat becomes rather
trainable.
Working temps for the 090 go to 140 F with a safe working preasure of
300 psi.
Like I said 140 degrees at 300 psi.............. I think it will suck a
little sea water just fine.

So, meanwhile, they're in CA and I'm in FL; shipping will be
interesting, plus, I can't see on my first tour of the site whether
they sell cut lengths.

That is wher I say agin just look locally in FL. Gotta be a store that
sells only hose to agraculture, fish processing, wine making, orange
juice industry. Thoes guys wont pay marine prices so the prices are
usually rather fair...... when compared to Hamilton, Defender, West
Marine, etc.

Oh, and then there is TX with the whole petro chemical industry. Its
gotta be there. Keep looking.

I'm pretty sure I don't need 100' of either the
3/4 or whatever the intake is, nor the 1.25 or so that the bilge out
is, and would be a bit challenged to store that much excess.

Agreed.


How much is the bilge size hose?

Its been a few months since a Replaced my three pump bilge system. If I
remember right about $1.50/ft

The head intake hose is similar in
cost to the inferior stuff...

Yea, go figure. I really do not like that, ooh so common hose with the
braided reinforment weaved into the hose wall. The stuff will collaps
on a tight bend and the wall is way to thin for my likeing.


And, the stuff for which I'd use this isn't below the waterline in
function, other than its physical location. I don't count something
being pumped up over the waterline as being below it :{))

Boy do I agree there. Seems we had quite an excahnge a few weeks ago
over the definition of "below the waterline." Athough I would think the
3/4" head intake does qualify for BTW.

And, thanks for remembering my boat buying posts - that's over 2 years
ago, now...
And thanks again for the link - how say you on the other questions
about them?

No problem, just hope you can find the stuff on the east side. I can
not recomend the it highly enough for bilge and head applications.I've
seen the 1 1/2" just brutalized on construction sites around here. I'm
talking pumping 10' ditches dry with escavators running over the stuff,
rocks/ small bolders abrading the stuff, baking in 106 F sun etc. I
think it will certainly suck up a little bilge or sea water inside a
boat easily. Oh, but for the real tough stuff try the "oil resistant"
version. A bit more expensive but.......................

Bob