Well, it’s that time of year when Chuck has to clean out the
macerator. For those of you who don’t
know what a macerator is, a macerator is a motor with a blade and a pump that
is hooked up to your wastewater system.
When it works, it is great because it chops up (macerates) the stinky
stuff and pumps out to the sewer drain.
Unfortunately, the blades have to be inspected and cleaned out
occasionally. :(
When Chuck started taking the macerator apart, one of the
screws stripped out. When we looked down
the hole at the blades, we could tell they were covered up with washing machine
lint. Since installing the Splendide
washer/dryer we were concerned that one of these days the macerator would get
stopped up with lint or hair and quit working in the middle of dumping the
black water. To get an idea of how bad this could be, watch
the movie RV when Robin Williams is
attempting to dump his wastewater tanks.
This is something we definitely wanted to avoid so we decided to replace the wastewater
drainage system.
We decided to go with the RhinoFlex system which could be
purchased at Camping World and for which replacement parts would be fairly easy
to find at any Camping World or RV supply store. Because we wanted to start with a nice clean
black water tank, Chuck has me flush the commode continuously:
while he waited and watched the clear connector in the line until it flushed clear of the stinky stuff in the black water tank.
After hooking it up, it drained a lot faster because the wastewater was
now going through a 3 inch line rather than being macerated and pumped out of 1
inch line. The worst problem was that at
our site, the sewer connection was nearly 2 feet high.
Overall, I think we will be satisfied with the RhinoFlex
because Chuck can drain the wastewater so much faster now.
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