The brittle tubing on Mary’s Interplak water jet continued to disintegrate, so I replaced the entire tube with Tygon:
Nisley’s First Rule of Plumbing: Never, ever look inside the pipes delivering water to your faucet.
That’s not quite inside the pipes, but it’s pretty grotendous, isn’t it?
As expected, flexible tubing doesn’t transmit the pressure pulses nearly as well as the OEM rigid tubing, so we finally bought a new Waterpik. At least you can get replacement tubing for Waterpiks, but I’ll wait until it fails before stocking up.
Contrary to what you might expect, I cut the Interplak’s cord, harvested the motor windings, and dumped the carcass in the trash.
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 
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8 responses to “Interplak Water Jet: End of the Line”
I like your first rule, although I have taken accidental peeks before remembering to look away. Fresh water plumbing is certainly more desirable than grey water and especially better than black!
Nisley’s Second Rule of Plumbing: The hardest part of septic work is deciding it’s just mud down there.
I forgot to reconnect the discharge line (which I had to disconnect to remove the cistern cover) before testing the float switch, and was treated to a fountain of sewage. It was most decidely NOT mud.
Yeah, but I bet you had to convince yourself otherwise before, uh, digging in. [wince]
That aroma stays with you for days…
A while ago, I hit the RV dump cover on the septic tank when plowing snow. I told myself it wasn’t probably wasn’t broken, but the fragrance told me otherwise. Repairing the break was as much fun as you could imagine.
Now, every fall, I put a traffic cone on the RV cover and another on the main tank cover. Curiously, a lot of people around here bury the main tank cover. However these are also the people who think septic systems never need to be pumped. The local plumber/septic guy is quite well off, largely because of those people.
As was ours, up until we replaced the drain field. Now it’s got a paver block atop the access tube that brings the opening up to ground level… won’t get lost again!
Why not splice the waterpik replacement tubing into the interplak?
That would probably work, but even I admitted defeat after all that screwing around: once in a while, ya gotta get new stuff!