Re: Sink pump, and where find sink drain fitting?

hlg@pacbell.net
Mon, 9 Aug 1999 14:08:44 -0700


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Does the water jug have an open vent line? Air has to get in to replace the
water pumped out. Otherwise you will have a partial vacuum that will try to
suck the water back into the jug.

Harry Gordon
P14 #234
Mountain View, CA

>I got new hoses hooked up to the sink water pump, but
>the pump does not seem to "hold" the water at the top
>of the pipe, or draw very well unless I press the
>plastic water jug it is drawing from until the water
>shoots up the pipe to the pump. Do I just have an old
>pump, or are they all this way? Thanks for your help.
>
>- Scott Foshee
>Charleston