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From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Sat Aug 21 1999 - 12:06:52 EDT
In a message dated 8/19/99 3:06:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
writes:
<< . I don't want to create another thru-hull, and I don't want to get rid
of the 3500. Can I combine the two electric pump discharges at the thru-hull
with a Y-type connector, or is this taboo?
>>
Ian,
I've been pumping my bilgewater with a small PAR diaphram pump out of the
ship via the main engine exhaust pipe seawater line since day one. My bilge
switch is a standard household wall toggle switch with a hole drilled
sideways through the end of the plastic handle. There is a spring pulling
the handle up, and a Clorox bottle half filled with sand pulling the switch
end of the spring down. When the bottle floats off the bilge bottom the
switch turns on the PAR diaphram pump and the bilgewater goes out the main
engine exhaust thruhull.
I should have another bilge pump with the switch higher and connected to an
alarm.
I do have a tee, valve and strainer so I can take a suck on the bilge with
the main engine cooling seawater pump.
I have no throughulls above the waterline except the main engine and genset
exhausts.
Norm
S/V Bandersnatch
Underway off New Jersey, Northbound
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