Faceplate and faceplate gasket fused to liner

[ranand]

Tried to remove the faceplate for a Proline 93084 which is almost 15 years old. The skimmer was cracked. Outside gasket was leaking.
The inner gasket, proline 93084 was not a butterfly gasket, seems to be very well stuck. I pulled but the liner seemed to tear at the point I pulled.
Anything else I can use, it seems like the gasket used was not a pvc type instead a rubber version, to remove this plate and gasket.
Right now I am using a butterfly gasket with the gasket between the wall and the liner on the inside.

 

[ajw22]

Welcome to TFP.

@jimmythegreek ideas?

 

[jimmythegreek]

They probably used glue to tack the liner to gasket if its tearing. Not much you can do other than sticking with gaskets. I dont deal with above grounds so I'm not much help

 

[ranand]

Thanks for the reply, the site and forum members are great!

its definitely stuck on there so the glue make sense though i don't why you would want that. In the end I chose to leave the faceplate on and use the butterfly gasket between the outside skimmer box, over the pool wall (nice and sharp and yes I got sliced on it), and underneath the liner. The difficulty with the butterfly gasket in this position is that it needs to be re-positioned periodically as you tighten as the liner presses upon it slightly unevenly even with a staggered screw tightening.

the old faceplate and new skimmer box setup works eventually with lots of slow cranking on the non-self tapping screws. after this and once the faceplate cracks i will have to patch the liner to remove it or replace the liner and skimmer entirely.