Hi all! Long time no post.
Came home to a toilet full of water and a non-functioning macerator. Lots of baling and dismantling later discover the capacitor has failed - source a replacement and totally cleaned/reassembled the macerator - and reinstalled. The copper pipe and upper jubilee clip on the waste pipe (where it turns from rubber to copper) was corroded so cleaned both up prior to reinstalling.
Unfortunately on reassembling (even with cleaning all pipes) there was a small dripping leak from macerator -> rubber 90 degree elbow with the jubilee clip unable to be done up any tighter. I have managed to stop this at present by wrapping some PTFE tape around the plastic tube coming out of the macerator. It's surviving at the moment, but I think the problem is more that the rubber 90 degree elbow has deteriorated to the point that it won't seal properly.
Does anyone have any other more permanent solutions, or know where I might find these flexible rubber elbows (one side is 45mm, believe the other side may be 32mm with insert to take down to 22mm)?
Macerator is a Sololift+ WC-1.
Came home to a toilet full of water and a non-functioning macerator. Lots of baling and dismantling later discover the capacitor has failed - source a replacement and totally cleaned/reassembled the macerator - and reinstalled. The copper pipe and upper jubilee clip on the waste pipe (where it turns from rubber to copper) was corroded so cleaned both up prior to reinstalling.
Unfortunately on reassembling (even with cleaning all pipes) there was a small dripping leak from macerator -> rubber 90 degree elbow with the jubilee clip unable to be done up any tighter. I have managed to stop this at present by wrapping some PTFE tape around the plastic tube coming out of the macerator. It's surviving at the moment, but I think the problem is more that the rubber 90 degree elbow has deteriorated to the point that it won't seal properly.
Does anyone have any other more permanent solutions, or know where I might find these flexible rubber elbows (one side is 45mm, believe the other side may be 32mm with insert to take down to 22mm)?
Macerator is a Sololift+ WC-1.
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