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    Repair of C-1100-Sep Series Hayward DE separation tank

    This is a solution to the DE separation tank leak from cracks in the shell that TFP website users have reported in the past. This occurs near the top of the tank when the black ledger support internal ring splits and lets the DE filter bag be pushed down causing its top sealing ring to expand...
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    great deals on chlorine 3 inch tablets

    Costco in Suffolk County New York yesterday received hundreds of HTH 3 inch chlorine tablets that they are selling for $164.99 for a 37.5 pound bucket. That is $4.40 per pound. Amazon is selling the same thing for $237 which is $6 per pound. The Costco SKU number is 1625066. Costco will accept...
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    vinyl liner hole and sand floor damage caused by robot cleaner

    Aquabot pool robot stuck in place by the main drain cover caused a pin hole in the vinyl liner 6 inches from main drain. The stuck pool cleaner then sucked out the sand under the liner thru that pin hole leaving a large round 3-inch-deep by 10-inch round cavity depression in the pool sand floor...
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    pool winter cover for heavy snow ice loads

    I live in the Northeast and we have had major snow and ice loading during the winter at times causing home and store roof cave ins to occur. I started with a cover pools auto cover with below deck rigid rails and water levels at mid skimmer level. Heavy snow melting and refreezing into ice was a...
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    Zodiac Jandy R0452500 CG Cell Port Sensor

    The new replacement sensor Zodiac Jandy R0452500 CG Cell Port Sensor with the module containing the A B switch solves error codes generated by the older style tri-sensor started on the market in October 2014. My unit was late 2013 and generated the notorious error codes 172 low flow, no flow...
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    www.imds.com.au pool lights

    Does anyone have any experience with LED pool light systems from IMD Sales, an Australian company that has the most sophisticated pool light systems I have seen yet (they have youtube product videos). I have had problems with my Jandy color led lights CPHVLEDS and Pentair Intellibrite 5G color...
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    canadian geese plague

    There seems to be a Canadian geese plague in some parts of this country that has reaped havoc onto homes and business. I live near water and these animals come on the grass and eat it with the grass roots and replace it with tons of bird poop which is very unsanitary. There is so much of it at...
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    solid winter cover with cover pump on top emptied the pool

    This year I was using a solid winter poly tarp cover with a little giant automatic APCP-1700 1/3 HP 1800GPM pool cover pump left on the cover continuously in the automatic mode. After 4 months I found the winter cover drooped down 3 feet and I took the winter tarp cover off to find only 6 inches...
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    jandy retrofit igniter kit

    Jandy decided to relocate their LJ series mini-Norton 601 igniter from the igniter box to the burner itself, they made this custom made non-generic 4 inch long mini igniter R0367100 NLA and made it available only in the R0449800 retrofit kit. Why not just take the NLA igniter that comes with the...
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    high cyanuric levels

    I have 20X40X (8.5 deep) gunite pool, 34000 gallon, and 8X8 1200 gallon gunite spa, separate units, no waterfall, with underground equalizer pipe that is closed all times, on one Hayward DE 72 filter and one 400,000 gas heater system with JVA's controllers, and RS8 automation governed by a...