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Posted: September 18 2014 at 10:16pm |
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I have one on order from Avast marine and will be here and installed tomorrow. Just seeing if anyone else is running one
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Posted: September 19 2014 at 1:43am |
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Let me know how it ends up. That'd be wonderful.
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Adam Blundell
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Posted: September 19 2014 at 9:24am |
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I'm using a neck cleaner.... If my arm and paper towels count. I have to reach in there every few days.
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Posted: September 19 2014 at 10:58am |
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I'm using a neck cleaner.... If my arm and paper towels count. I have to reach in there every few days.
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That's the same method I use.
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Posted: September 19 2014 at 11:40am |
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Thats old school... still get your water from the well too I suppose?
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Posted: September 19 2014 at 12:28pm |
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And then bucket it on the back of a mule to my house.
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Posted: September 19 2014 at 12:56pm |
Adam has a mule for that? Dang-it. 
An automatic built-in sprayer to clean the neck is a good idea. Both MSM and Bird World use that. The neck of the ASM Skimmer in my system requires cleaning less than once/month and it conveniently separates from the main body and from the skimmer cup.
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Posted: October 29 2014 at 7:57pm |
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Soooo my review... I LOVE IT! I can skim the same for 2 weeks or as long as my venturi doesnt get clogged. The inside of my neck stays clean and clear. I run it every 4 hours for 2 minutes. That lets it go around my skimmer neck twice every 4 hours.
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Posted: October 29 2014 at 10:12pm |
Which kind did you get, and where? (if you don't mind)
I may have to consider getting rid of my paper towel method.
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Posted: October 29 2014 at 10:13pm |
badfinger wrote:
I have one on order from Avast marine and will be here and installed tomorrow. Just seeing if anyone else is running one |
May have answered my own question.
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Posted: October 29 2014 at 11:04pm |
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Correct Adam! My problem with the paper towel method was after 3-4 days i would start losing skim cause of build up in the neck
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Posted: October 30 2014 at 7:24am |
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I have found that a 4 dollar glass cup cleaner works and aswome for me. Also I fill the collection cup will water and shake it.
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Posted: October 30 2014 at 8:46am |
I have some questions: - If the neck is being kept clean by wiping the build up back into the skimmer compartment, this should result in more skimate in the collection cup, right? Are you finding it necessary to empty the collection cup more often? How often compared to before installing the cleaning apparatus? - If this is the Avast Swabbie, I assume that skimmate collects on it too, so how is the Swabbie cleaned and how often?
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Posted: October 30 2014 at 10:21am |
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My cup comes off and I rinse in the bath tub if it gets a nice 1/4" build up on it, personally I like the neck/cup a little dirty with a film, seems the other gunk has something to cling to as after I clean it I don't have as much skimmate/ the rate of gunk build up is much slower despite all the manufacturers recommendations to keep it as clean as possible - they probably recommend this in hopes you will drop/break and have to replace the cup, hahaha. j/k.
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Posted: October 30 2014 at 11:02pm |
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Vertex make some very nice ones as well
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Posted: October 31 2014 at 9:23am |
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Mark, it has made my skimmate darker and more consistent. My collection cup is really big so my venturi always clogs before my skimmer cup fills. So i just empty the cup then. When i empty the cup i just clean the blade.
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Posted: October 31 2014 at 9:28am |
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Bryce, that's the point of the swabbie/ neck cleaner it takes the gunk and build up off but allows for the film that gets cleaned off in relular water/paper towel method to stay
The reason i got it cause i would have to set my skimmer to skim way wet that way in a week in would start skimming dark
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