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Roger Long wrote:
The sink drain "T" into the head intake line works great although it means a lot of head pumping. What I meant by lots of head pumping was filling a 13 gallon holding tank by pumping the head. You--and most other boat owners too--need to learn to use the "dry" mode to do more than pump the last of the water out of the bowl. Few people realize that any manual toilet that's working anywhere near factory specs can move bowl contents up to 6 linear feet (further if you get some help from gravity, at least 4' vertically, in the dry mode. You can cut your flush water by at least 50%, doubling the number of flushes your tank can hold if you'll do this: Pump only 2-3x in the wet mode to wet the bowl ahead of use...or add 2-3 cupfuls from the sink ahead of solids. Switch to dry. After use, pump enough times in the dry mode to move the bowl contents to the tank...then switch to wet only long enough to rinse the bowl...and back to dry to push the rinse water through to the tank. -- Peggie ---------- Peggie Hall Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987 Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor" http://shop.sailboatowners.com/books...ku=90&cat=1304 |
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