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Old 04-24-2010, 06:22 PM   #9
ful-rac
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Hi Jim, I appreciate your feedback and your suggestions, I highly respect your opinion. The check valve I am using is not the traditional ball and spring type setup, if you take it apart it reminds me of a heart valve. I believe it's made out of some sort of silicone rubber type material, nothing to rust or get stuck. Raising the bottom hose is a great idea, like you said it would force the water to go uphill makes sense. As far as water splashing and getting into the thru hull fitting....very minimal almost none in most situations. The check valve seems to work very well, it's not completely water tight, if I spray with water it will let in a few drops but I'm not going to worry about that.
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