I have a 1978 Chris Craft Corinthian. It has a dockside hook up that uses waterline that fastens to the dockside fitting with hose clamps. That hose runs about 6 feet to a large brass valve system. The valve has an inlet that fastens to that hose with hose clamps.
The valve turns in one direction to allow dockside water to fill the tank. When you turn the valve the other way, the dockside water is diverted to the boats water system totally separate from the tank system.
Basically you never need to turn this valve because the tank system and the dockside system are totally separate. The valve I'm describing is more of a convenience that makes it unnecessary to disconnect the hose from the dock in order to fill the tanks through the water filler fitting.
My problem is that this valve has developed a leak that can't be repaired. I want to bypass it. The problem with bypassing it is that on the side of the valve that connects to both the water tank and the dockside water system the waterlines are 1/2 inch semi rigid plastic that use plastic fittings that you merely thread up and tighten them finger tight. It's a good leak free system.
Nobody seems to know where to buy these 30 year old lines or fittings. I want to put a simple "Y" valve where this huge regulator/diverter valve is but I can't figure out how to connect the old threaded plastic fittings to anything that will fasten to the "Y" valve on the outlet side. I can work it out so that I can fasten the flexible water lines to the "Y" valve.
Basically the new flex line wont hook to the old semi rigid lines with the threaded fittings.
As I said, the old fittings are fine. They never leak and being finger tight fittings they are easy to deal with.
Has anybody run into this problem? Unless I can find a way to make old and new talk to each other I'll just have to run flex line throughout a great deal of the boat. That's low on my list of choices. I can put a pressure reducer on at the dockside hook up on the boat and eliminate the need for this big honking PITA valve but I have to come up with a way to fasten old and new. Also the threads on the old plastic fittings are very fine. I can't find anything that will mate to them in hardware or local marine stores.
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
The valve turns in one direction to allow dockside water to fill the tank. When you turn the valve the other way, the dockside water is diverted to the boats water system totally separate from the tank system.
Basically you never need to turn this valve because the tank system and the dockside system are totally separate. The valve I'm describing is more of a convenience that makes it unnecessary to disconnect the hose from the dock in order to fill the tanks through the water filler fitting.
My problem is that this valve has developed a leak that can't be repaired. I want to bypass it. The problem with bypassing it is that on the side of the valve that connects to both the water tank and the dockside water system the waterlines are 1/2 inch semi rigid plastic that use plastic fittings that you merely thread up and tighten them finger tight. It's a good leak free system.
Nobody seems to know where to buy these 30 year old lines or fittings. I want to put a simple "Y" valve where this huge regulator/diverter valve is but I can't figure out how to connect the old threaded plastic fittings to anything that will fasten to the "Y" valve on the outlet side. I can work it out so that I can fasten the flexible water lines to the "Y" valve.
Basically the new flex line wont hook to the old semi rigid lines with the threaded fittings.
As I said, the old fittings are fine. They never leak and being finger tight fittings they are easy to deal with.
Has anybody run into this problem? Unless I can find a way to make old and new talk to each other I'll just have to run flex line throughout a great deal of the boat. That's low on my list of choices. I can put a pressure reducer on at the dockside hook up on the boat and eliminate the need for this big honking PITA valve but I have to come up with a way to fasten old and new. Also the threads on the old plastic fittings are very fine. I can't find anything that will mate to them in hardware or local marine stores.
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.