DIY RV Macerator Pump
Going to make a Macerator pump this weekend from a garbage disposal, I have seen plans on the internet and feel this will be better than the weak 12 volt one I got at Camping World for $240.00 that on...
Forum Discussion
popeyemth wrote:SRockwood wrote:
Made mine a while back. Doesn't work very well, but I used our old disposal after remodeling the house.
Can you expand on this?
What don't you like about it?
Thanks,Mike
Guessing here, but since there's no pumping action in a disposal it probably doesn't work very well if you have get the stuff to a higher location. But if your downstream drain is at or below the level of the disposal it probably does a great job of chopping everything up.
I have a built-in macerator pump on my RV and had pretty much decided my next RV won't have one. But recently I cobbled together some fittings from Home Depot where I can attach the macerator output line thru a 25' 3/4" hose into a clean-out at my house. Being able to dump and really clean out the tanks at home is priceless! I've got a whole new opinion about that macerator pump now. And for the record, I have had to rebuild the impeller assembly on it once and I have a spare sitting on the shelf for the next time it's needed.
My thinking now is if my next RV doesn't have a macerator I might get one of those portable ones just so I can continue to dump tanks at home. Sure beats the side trip and cost to where I used to dump.
