Sanitation hose | Morgan 38 Sailboat Forum

As I have mentioned in another thread, I am replacing my toilet...

It is not going well ...

Installing the toilet itself was no problem ...

But I have had a very frustrating couple of weeks trying to work with the standard 1-1/2" white sanitation hose for the waste discharge (the kind on offer at West Marine.)

It is virtually impossible to get it slip onto standard 1-1/2" hose barbs. I even soak the end in boiling water for a couple of minutes to soften it up, and use a liberal coating of dish-soap. But it still requires major force and major twisting back and forth to get it to go on.

So - point 1: it doesn't *stretch* enough to fit over a hose barb with a reasonable effort.



And then, once it is finally on and seated, with a couple of hose clamps tightened down hard ...
It still leaks!!

So - point 2: it doesn't *compress* enough to form a seal.




The problem doesn't appear to be something I'm doing wrong ... I've never had these kinds of problems with any other kind of hose.

The problem seems to be with the physical elasticity of the hose itself - it seems as though it is simply not elastic enough - it is too stiff.

I've tried everything to get this system to be leak free, and I am ready to give up on this hose.

Does anyone have suggestions for either
a) another kind of hose, or
b) a way to make this hose work?

Chris

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