I've kind of been running around in circles the past few days trying to solve my problem. Seems like every day I come up with a new solution, but wanted to get some opinions on this.
The problem is keeping a consistent suction while vacuuming. Currently I only get about 3-5 minutes before I lose the prime and start sucking in air. I now believe this is due to the rather funky piece of equipment I was sold at the pool store last year to attach my kreepy to our skimmer vac plate. It's a semi-hard rubber cone attached to this other piece which then attaches to the kreepy's hose. After a few minutes you can hear it slurp-slurp and suck in air and then either kreepy goes still or I get no suction when vacuuming manually.
Obviously this isn't the proper way to keep an air-tight fit. So I was thinking that I needed some sort of new vac plate that my kreepy hose could connect to. (I'm currently using the kreepy hose to manually vacuum as well).
Now I'm thinking that all I need for regular vacuming is a proper 1 1/2 inch vacuum hose... which should seal in the current plate I have, correct? I'm guessing I can splice a piece of the kreepy hose to one end of the standard vacuum hose when I want to run kreepy. When it's got full suction, it works pretty Dang good in our small pool.
Hope all of this isn't too convoluted. The biggest problem I'm having is keeping my small pool's bottom clean and free from dirt... if I could just maintain a constant suction long enough to vacuum it's entirety, my life would be improved 100%!! That's not too much to ask, is it?
See pics below.
Thanks for any advice.
The problem is keeping a consistent suction while vacuuming. Currently I only get about 3-5 minutes before I lose the prime and start sucking in air. I now believe this is due to the rather funky piece of equipment I was sold at the pool store last year to attach my kreepy to our skimmer vac plate. It's a semi-hard rubber cone attached to this other piece which then attaches to the kreepy's hose. After a few minutes you can hear it slurp-slurp and suck in air and then either kreepy goes still or I get no suction when vacuuming manually.
Obviously this isn't the proper way to keep an air-tight fit. So I was thinking that I needed some sort of new vac plate that my kreepy hose could connect to. (I'm currently using the kreepy hose to manually vacuum as well).
Now I'm thinking that all I need for regular vacuming is a proper 1 1/2 inch vacuum hose... which should seal in the current plate I have, correct? I'm guessing I can splice a piece of the kreepy hose to one end of the standard vacuum hose when I want to run kreepy. When it's got full suction, it works pretty Dang good in our small pool.
Hope all of this isn't too convoluted. The biggest problem I'm having is keeping my small pool's bottom clean and free from dirt... if I could just maintain a constant suction long enough to vacuum it's entirety, my life would be improved 100%!! That's not too much to ask, is it?
See pics below.
Thanks for any advice.