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I had to do some emergency plumbing repairs on my slide. During closing last year, my brother tried to disconnect the fitting on the slide and couldn't get it off so we ended up pulling the water out of the slide line instead of blowing it. He destroyed the seal. When I turned the water on to the slide last week, it was a gusher. I shut it down. Told my granddaughter on Friday we were going to fix it on Saturday and went to Lowes. I had to improvise a bit. When I cut the old fitting off, it shortened my line so I had to think for a second. I ended up adding a another fitting just to make up a bit more length. It worked and we now have an operational non leaking slide that I can disconnect for winterizing.

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Whoo hoo! Time for fun 🤩
Funny story, The last unions I ended up with were dark grey (I actually wanted white) - its a shame you couldn’t find one of those. You could definitely paint the coupling, not sure if its a good idea for the union though.
 
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Whoo hoo! Time for fun 🤩
Funny story, The last unions I ended up with were dark grey (I actually wanted white) - its a shame you couldn’t find one of those. You could definitely paint the coupling, not sure if its a good idea for the union though.
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The one I cut off was grey. I don't care what color it is as long as it doesn't leak. :mrgreen:
 
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I discovered today that I certainly need to spend more time dialing in the SWCG. We were sitting at 13 FC this morning. Whoops. Disabled it for the day to see what loses I have and I'll try to calculate it from there.
 
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dfwnoob said:
I discovered today that I certainly need to spend more time dialing in the SWCG. We were sitting at 13 FC this morning. Whoops. Disabled it for the day to see what loses I have and I'll try to calculate it from there.
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Don’t dial it back too much- the peak uv time is upon you! Better to have more than less. Check tonight to see what your loss was for the day & set the swg to give you a little bit more than that.
 
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I stored my looploc cover removal tool, where it will sit for 7+ months.

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Then I dried and folded the cover, started brushing the bottom sediment and added 4 bags of salt.

The water is cold in the 50s, but the SWG started reporting low salt and not cold water. I'll give the salt a day to mix and see if I can quit the LC club.
 
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A thread here reminded me that I've been meaning to replace my old filter gauge, so I ordered a new one from tftestkits.net and installed it today. Reads exactly the same as the old gauge, except it's larger, with a more useful 0-30 PSI range, and its faceplate isn't fogged up. And I don't have to tap it like a war-movie bomber pilot tapping his fuel gauge; when the pump turns off, it drops to 0 all by itself.

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Yesterday I brushed the walls and vacuumed the bottom. Right now I'm just using a Pool Blaster battery powered cleaner which is just barely enough to clean our pool without getting so annoying that I want to spend the $1k to get the robot. The water is crystal clear so I cant argue with the results I'm seeing.
 
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Re-installed the pump last night and the pool is running and clear again. I always think about 4 main things that might not work each spring, automation system, pump, autocover, and robot. All systems go.
 
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JamesW said:
Are you sure that it is working?
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I have an impromptu gain test running as we speak. I'm losing what seems like a high 2.5 ppm daily and it's still cold here. The highs are in the 60s and yesterday morning was 36 when I woke up.

The cell came on today after adding 2 more bags of salt yesterday. I changed the SWG to 80% which should bring me to 10 FC tomorrow. Then I'll OCLT at 10 before raising the CYA from 30.
 
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