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From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Sun Jul 15 2001 - 23:28:40 EDT
In a message dated 07/09/2001 1:52:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
writes:
> One boat that I lived on had a built up shower stall and a jabsco pump
> on a timer switch. Just turned the timer switch to drain the shower.
> The only thing to remember is that shower drains swallow a lot of hair
> what ever system you make up will have to cope with it.
>
The shower on Bandersnatch has a 5" square recess in the bottom of the
shower. In the recess there is a standard Rule bilge pump switch and one of
those little square Rule pumps ($23 at K-Mart). It pumps out the galley sink
drain. I don't bother with a hair screen. Hair does not seem to bother the
pump much. The pump design allows removal of the pump without disturbing the
plumbing. If it stops pumping, we snatch it out, clean any hair off the
impeller, suck out the debris with a shopvac and try it again. If the pump
just doesn't turn we pop in a new one.
They usually last a year or more of two showers daily.
Norm
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