how in the world does this vacume thingy work.

[Guest]

well all my valves are broken.

heres a pic

valve on the left are the skimmers, valve on the right is the vac port- they call it md, but that was removed with the new liner and added a vac port insted

 

[Poseidon]

Rollin Thunder,
If you have too much suction, the vacuum head can "latch on" to the liner, which can rip a hole in the liner. I know, because it happend to me once. :grrrr: You should be able to adust your valve(s) to get the suction just right.

 

[Guest]

i have to use a monkey wrench to ajust them, coul i just block it at the sorce (i.e. skimmer)

 

[waste]

RT, the reason, I suspect, that the valves are broken is because no one taught you how to use them From the pic, they look like 723 valves. To be able to turn the ball inside them, you have to loosen the union first. The union keeps the valve water-tight, but when 'snugged' enough to do that, the ball won't readily turn, hence the need to loosen it first.

As said before, hook up the vac and close the MD until you see a 1/2 -1 lb drop in pressure on the gauge.

 

[Guest]

RT, the reason, I suspect, that the valves are broken is because no one taught you how to use them From the pic, they look like 723 valves. To be able to turn the ball inside them, you have to loosen the union first. The union keeps the valve water-tight, but when 'snugged' enough to do that, the ball won't readily turn, hence the need to loosen it first.

As said before, hook up the vac and close the MD until you see a 1/2 -1 lb drop in pressure on the gauge.

if i close the md that cuts off my vac port, should i do the same thing to the skimmer then.

 

[waste]

If you're vacing through the skimmer, leave that line open and just adjust the MD til you get the suction you want.

 

[Butterfly]

When we get it all set up to vac, we kneal over the skimmer and fill the vac hose using a WATER HOSE. When vac hose is full, bubbles will come out of vac head, and we are already in position to make the fast xfer to the skimmer. Lots of us have had to ask quesitons about 'how to' vacuum our pools. Good luck.

Joyce