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how do you clean power heads? please help!! |
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Tenant
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: SANTA FE SPRINGS ,CA
Posts: 51
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how do you clean power heads? please help!!
can anyone tell me how i should clean my maxi jet power heads because its time for me to maintence them?
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Citizen
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Posts: 186
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I clean mine with warm water about 1 to 2 gallons, and 1/2 cup vinegar per gallon. I let them run in this mixture for 15 mins. After that I run them in clorox bleach same quantities, for 15 mins. Then I flush them with just plain warm water for another 15 mins. I add Prime to the warm water 3 times the recommended dosage just to make sure the bleach gets neutralized. After all this I make sure the intake screens are nice and clean, and they are ready to be put back into operation.
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Keeper of Willis
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: NW Montana
Posts: 5,478
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Warm water and vinegar. I don't use the bleach tho.
By the way, thanx for the reminder, I should clean mine to.:slap: :slap: :slap: |
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I scrub them off with a toothbrush and rinse them. Then I run them in the same vinegar solution that they described above for a while.
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Mayor
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Posts: 672
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I use the several bath treatment that showfish describes, although I do the bleach first followed by the vinegar. The bleach will sterilize the pumps while the vinegar will remove any calcium deposits.
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