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Jul. 02, 2024

Sanitation hose

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I've just fitted this stuff to my old Westerly Longbow as I rather suspected the old hose was getting choked up or blocked and hadn't been replaced for many years.
Flying Goose, post 18, gives a valuable tip about heating the hose before pushing it onto fittings. I did the same but using a pint mug of near boiling water to do the job.
Anyway, main reason for posting is to say that what I thought would be a one hour job took nearer ten hours. Main problem was the time I had to spend cleaning out the Henderson pump of accumulated limescale or whatever it is. Crikey, it took some shifting. Then cleaned the valves on the pump before reassembling it and finding I had the alignment of the handle wrong. Stripped again and reassembled only to find I had trapped a bit of the main diaphragm in the join and the pump was leaking. Stripped and reassembled, this time the screw fittings holding the exit valve in place were leaking. Stripped, sorted and reassembled... next time it'll be a new pump and hang the cost!
Oh, and allow for needing some new jubilee clips. Some of my old ones were corroded and had to be cut off, another bit of awkward hacksaw work.
wishing you success - at least, more than I had!

I've just fitted this stuff to my old Westerly Longbow as I rather suspected the old hose was getting choked up or blocked and hadn't been replaced for many years.Flying Goose, post 18, gives a valuable tip about heating the hose before pushing it onto fittings. I did the same but using a pint mug of near boiling water to do the job.Anyway, main reason for posting is to say that what I thought would be a one hour job took nearer ten hours. Main problem was the time I had to spend cleaning out the Henderson pump of accumulated limescale or whatever it is. Crikey, it took some shifting. Then cleaned the valves on the pump before reassembling it and finding I had the alignment of the handle wrong. Stripped again and reassembled only to find I had trapped a bit of the main diaphragm in the join and the pump was leaking. Stripped and reassembled, this time the screw fittings holding the exit valve in place were leaking. Stripped, sorted and reassembled... next time it'll be a new pump and hang the cost!Oh, and allow for needing some new jubilee clips. Some of my old ones were corroded and had to be cut off, another bit of awkward hacksaw work.wishing you success - at least, more than I had!

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