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lately every time I turn on my computer it smells of rotten stinking fish
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>From: "Ken" <>
>To: <>
>Subject: Re: T&T: 30 micron vs 30amps, raining cats and dogs
>Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:35:05 -0500
>
>Greetings,
>
> Hey you guys are way over complicating this setup. The simple way is
>to
>remove the fish bones by hand and run the remains through a "hand crank
>meat
>grinder". (I found one on Ebay for less than $15.00). If your into "weights
>and balances" like I am, it is best to mount the thing in the center amid
>ship area to prevent unintended listing. (Or you could move fuel from one
>tank to the other, but then we get into that "filtering thing" again). I
>found that directly over the cat box was the best place to install as to
>catch the overflow. I originally used a small glass bowl to catch the
>stuff,
>but as you know, glass is defiantly not the thing to have onboard, so I
>switched to plastic. The only problem I'm having now is dealing with the
>residual odor from the dead fish that I can't wash out of the plastic or
>the
>grinder, but Peg Hall is suggesting a variety of "odor eaters" that I am
>presently evaluating. No filtering and no power! A much simpler solution!
>
>Respectfully,
>
>Ken Williams
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:
> > [mailto:]On Behalf Of
> > Doug
> > Gould
> > Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 5:57 PM
> > To:
> > Subject: T&T: 30 micron vs 30amps, raining cats and dogs
> >
> > The other day, I was grinding some fish for my cat,
> > trying to filter out the bones with a 2 mircon coffee
> > filter attached to a Waring XL2300 blender on puree
> > setting, powered from 120VAC on a single leg 30amp
> > breaker fed from a 15amp shore power cord, which is
> > plugged into an outlet shared with a soda machine that
> > sells Bolivian beer. Although the breaker didn't trip,
> > my cat wouldn't eat the food.
> >
> > So I'm wonder if the list can recommend a better set
> > up. My dock neighbor has suggested a 12vdc blender
> > plugged through a cigarette lighter outlet, but then I
> > think I should use a 20 micron filter, to lessen the
> > dc load, unless you think I should just feed the stuff
> > to my neighbor's dog though a 5/8" garden hose. My
> > mechanic says the problem is I'm taking power from the
> > 2000 watt inverter, which overloads the system, and
> > suggested I try a vacuum instead of a blender, but I
> > can't seem to figure out how to plug the inverter into
> > my racor vacuum gauge, which would replace the 20
> > micron coffee filter. My wife has a Hoover vacuum, but
> > that won't run on the inverter unless I'm making
> > coffee at the same time, but then we don't have enough
> > filters for the blender, so not only does the cat get
> > hungary, but the breaker trips on the genset,
> > especially when the Hoover gets clogged with cat hair.
> > I've bled the Waring and the Hoover, but still the cat
> > won't touch the food. We've even tried coffee grounds
> > in the racor, but then the genset runs like crap, and
> > I only get about 92volts AC from that.
> >
> > hope the list can make some meaningful suggestions.
> >
> > Doug
> > Water Torture
> > Block Island
> >
> > ps: the Bolivian beer soda machine is next to a ping
> > pong table. Do you think I should move the table
> > farther away from the outlet?
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