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Old 04-30-2010, 12:44 AM
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Default Macerator install - 23' Tsunami

I want to install a macerator for a fish box to grind up all the fish scales and slime I occasionally get.

The fish box will be in the large floor hatch I have between the helm and passenger seat. Currently, I use a large, Rubbermaid so the guts won't go into the bilge...

Questions:

- Anyone have a preference for a macerator for this job ?
- It would be an easier install if I mount the macerator on the inner transom - w/ about 8' of hose from the fishbox outlet to the macerator intake. Is this a problem ? I would assume that the closer the macerator to 'the guts' the better, but that is a tougher install..

Anyone have any insight ?

Thx.
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Old 04-30-2010, 07:21 AM
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Default Re: Macerator install - 23' Tsunami

Macerator on the transom will work. It needs to be mounted low and then pump the results overboard above the waterline like a bilge pump. You need to use the full 1.5" hose to the pump with no reducers.
25 years ago, I had a 25' Robalo with an inline macerator mounted off the fish box. It worked great.

As much as I dislike shopping there, West Marine has a 12v macerator pump on sale right now-$55.
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Old 05-01-2010, 05:21 PM
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Default Re: Macerator install - 23' Tsunami

I have a jabsco macerator I just plucked of of Ebay new in the box. I got it for a spare but will pass it along for the same that I paid. New at BOW they are $150, I think I paid $90?
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Old 05-02-2010, 12:50 AM
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