On Sun, 08 May 2005 08:42:43 -0400, Larry W4CSC
wrote:

"Roger Long" wrote in
news
Does anyone have any experience to report with the new solid state
bilge pump water sensors such as the Johnson Ultima? Sounds like a
good, no jamb, no cog, idea to me.


Ever try putting the float switch in a little cage made out of plastic
screen? It keeps the crap out of the switch float.

Put a hook in the top of it with a line you can pull on if your bilges are
deep. Our bilge pump is so far down you can hardly see it, much less reach
it.

I have a pump that reaches down into the deep bilge with a suction
hose. My main bilge pumps are pretty easy to get to.

Skipper wrote in
:

I have a pump that reaches down into the deep bilge with a suction
hose. My main bilge pumps are pretty easy to get to.



Because Lionheart, an Amel Sharki ketch, has all its drains going into the
bilge, not overboard, she came with a quite-large, self-priming electric
diaphram bilge pump. But, alas, before we got it, noone lubed its bearings
so they were all destroyed. The motor bearings were so worn the rotor was
locked to the stator. I suppose your pump is like that. Man those things
are expensive!