Does anyone know where to get the "expand and purge" type of winterizing plug (the kind you can pressurize with an air compressor) now that everything4pools.com is out of business? A quick google search didn't turn up anything.
Expand and purge winterizing plugs
- Thread starter robrinker
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Winterizing plugs with air valves tend to leak. The only place I use them is on certain Paramount systems that require special semi trapazoidial shaped plugs.
Scott
Scott
It sounds like you are talking about the Gizzmo Ultra Swimming Pool Skimmer Guard. A Google search turns up many places to get them.
Thanks for the replies.
PoolGuy - I know they leak, but it's the only way I've found to get my main drain to "blow bubbles" when I'm winterizing.
Jason - It's definitely not a gizmo. It's a black rubber winterizing plug with a tire valve stem on it so you can attach an air compressor to it. Waste recommended them a couple of years ago when I first started posting here.
If I can't find one, it's no big deal...I'll just have to find a new solution for blowing out my main drain.
PoolGuy - I know they leak, but it's the only way I've found to get my main drain to "blow bubbles" when I'm winterizing.
Jason - It's definitely not a gizmo. It's a black rubber winterizing plug with a tire valve stem on it so you can attach an air compressor to it. Waste recommended them a couple of years ago when I first started posting here.
If I can't find one, it's no big deal...I'll just have to find a new solution for blowing out my main drain.
A shop vac in blower mode and valving it off will trap air below the frost line. If the valve leaks, I put a plug in the pump to stop the leak. If air leaks out of the valve body, it should be replaced.
Scott
Scott
Try searching for pool plugs on e-bay. That's where i got mine.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Brand-New-Rubber-Ex ... ltDomain_0
http://cgi.ebay.com/Brand-New-Rubber-Ex ... ltDomain_0