Sunday, May 24, 2009

May23, 2009

Spent a large portion of the day repairing the head (that is the toilet for you landlubbers). Any time one works on any type of toilet, it is a disagreeable project. A marine head is about as bad as it gets! cramp work area, and much less water flushing through the system leads to a smelly area when you open things up. Plus just about every screw or bolt has fuzed or is about to distintegrate. everything strips when you go to take it out. I endedn up having to use my dremil to cut off about four screws or bolts.

Fortunately the repair kit from west marine had replacement screws and bolts as well as new gaskets, flappers and valves, just about all moving parts. So once I got the thing apart, everything when fairly smoothly.

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