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mikestock
Explorer
Jan 02, 2020

Commercial macerator or homemade from garbage disposer

I am looking to get a macerator and looking for recommendations. One reason I am looking at a homemade is that it, to me, would be handier to have a 120 vac model than to have one wired to my batt...
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GDS-3950BH
Explorer
Jan 02, 2020
NRALIFR wrote:
Got it. It’ll never work.

Centrifugal force = bunk.

If you’d ever played with one on a bench, you’d know that they don’t suck worth a dam, but as long as the flow of liquid into the top is continuous, they sure as heck will pump.

:):)


Got it, a garbage disposal has enough Centrifugal force to overcome 4' of head, including the additional friction from a 100' run of 5/8" or 3/4" hose.

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