Home made waste pump
Has anyone made a sewer waste pump from a house sink disposal from under the sink? I saw this someplace once and cant find it. Thank you in advance.
Forum Discussion
Dutch_12078 wrote:
The centrifugal blades in the disposal act as a centrifugal pump impeller as they force the waste against the grinder plate. Did you miss the part where he held the hose up 7 feet high and it still pumped? This is not a new discovery, and according to various posts, quite a few folks have done the same thing with good results. It may seem crazy to you, but does in fact work quite well as others have posted. Try a Google search:
Waste disposal as an RV macerator
Using converted disposal at home would be as easy as sticking the hose through a window into a toilet if there's no sewer clean out available. Just as you could with a costly RV macerator. If you compare the parts in a waste disposal and a macerator pump, you'll see they're actually pretty similar. And if a ~$100 price difference is a "very few dollars" to you, that's great, but some of us have better uses for our money than overpaying for things we can easily make or modify ourselves.
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In one of his post to me he said how he has changed out 4 garbage disposals in his lifetime, heck I was a maintenance man for many years I have changed maybe 50 in my life time and they do pump water.
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