Tiny Bubbles
Contributor
This is one of those often neglected parts that could benefit from occasional service so I thought I'd post this...
I'm replacing the obnoxiously-long 19" corregated hose on my zeagle ranger with a 14" hose, and had to take apart the pull dump in the process. Last fall, I took someone's advice that was posted on this site and put some listerene mouth wash in the BC bladder, in order to prevent mold from growing in there during winter storage. That may have been a mistake. There was not one part inside of that pull-dump assembly that wasn't sticky. Sticky like the floor in a movie theater. It still "worked", but having the entire surface of every little part in there being that sticky can't be good for it. It would have attracted dirt and eventually boogered itself up.
The pull-dump assembly came apart easily. I cut the cable off, only because I have to replace it with a shorter one. There is an o-ring in there. It's a 2-211. So add that to your grocery list if you have one of these BCs and you're ordering o-rings.
Anyway, I had to clean every little part in there with dishwashing detergent to get the sticky mouthwash residue off. If you've ever put that stuff in your BC, you may want to take the dump valves apart & see what's going on with them.
-tiny-B.
I'm replacing the obnoxiously-long 19" corregated hose on my zeagle ranger with a 14" hose, and had to take apart the pull dump in the process. Last fall, I took someone's advice that was posted on this site and put some listerene mouth wash in the BC bladder, in order to prevent mold from growing in there during winter storage. That may have been a mistake. There was not one part inside of that pull-dump assembly that wasn't sticky. Sticky like the floor in a movie theater. It still "worked", but having the entire surface of every little part in there being that sticky can't be good for it. It would have attracted dirt and eventually boogered itself up.
The pull-dump assembly came apart easily. I cut the cable off, only because I have to replace it with a shorter one. There is an o-ring in there. It's a 2-211. So add that to your grocery list if you have one of these BCs and you're ordering o-rings.
Anyway, I had to clean every little part in there with dishwashing detergent to get the sticky mouthwash residue off. If you've ever put that stuff in your BC, you may want to take the dump valves apart & see what's going on with them.
-tiny-B.
