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Old 03-16-2010, 03:16 PM   #41
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Finally got the chance to use my "portable" macerator pump yesterday. We dry camped this past weekend down at Temecula at a soccer tournament. I hooked everything up, and flipped the switch, heard the pump come on, but only a trickle of the black stuff was coming out the other end of the hose. Well, that is the Hockwald way....nothing is ever easy....LOL! I fiddled around with it for about an hour. I unhooked everything, filled up the intake plumbing so I could watch the "clean" water and see what happened....lots of sound, but very little water discharge....hmmmm...

Well, I had to get to work, so I looked at it again this morning. I unscrewed the 4 bolts holding the intake housing in place, and discovered immediately what the problem was....the gasket was installed incorrectly covering the opening that lets the water into the pump to be discharged.....I'm amazed that anything came out at all. I then reinstalled the gasket in the correct position, and put it back together, and sucess...water came out like a fire hose! So, I'll bring the coach home again this Friday and attempt, once again to empty my black tank.
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Old 03-18-2010, 05:34 PM   #42
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Great news......brought the coach home this morning (getting it washed, and heading out to Temecula again tomorrow for another soccer tournament), hooked up my portable macerator pump, and emptied the black tank in about 4 minutes....yahoooo!!! Worked flawlessly! Didn't take any pictures of the "process" as I'm sure no one here needs that image in their brains today... No runs, no drips, no errors as Johnny Bench used to say in that Krylon commercial years ago. No black water on the black top. Filled up the black tank twice with clean water and pumped it back out as is my practice.
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Old 03-19-2010, 03:44 AM   #43
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Great news Clarke!! You are now the master pooper pumper on your block!!
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Old 03-19-2010, 01:07 PM   #44
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Yes I am, but I'm not advertising..haha!
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Old 03-19-2010, 09:52 PM   #45
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Hey Clarke, I've been trying to follow this post, but I'm really slow....
What does this do for a Newell or any coach owner?
Gets rid of waste?
I thought we already could do this?
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Old 03-19-2010, 10:34 PM   #46
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The macerator pump allows me to dump, in this case, pump the waste from my tanks at home using my "sewer cleanout". If I have been dry camping, like I was last weekend, I don't have to search for a dump station on my way home, or on my way back to storage. Now, I can come home and dump both my tanks at my leisure. Since my sewer cleanout is about 4 feet higher in elevation than the street where my coach is parked I need the pump to push it up the driveway to the cleanout.

Ironically, my coach came with a macerator pump hooked up to the gray water tank, but there is no way to use that to pump out the black water tank. Not sure why that choice was made during construction.
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