T&T: 30 micron vs 30amps, raining cats and dogs

[Ken]

Greetings,

     Hey you guys are way over complicating this setup. The simple way is to 
remove the fish bones by hand and run the remains through a "hand crank meat 
grinder". (I found one on Ebay for less than $15.00). If your into "weights 
and balances" like I am, it is best to mount the thing in the center amid 
ship area to prevent unintended listing. (Or you could move fuel from one 
tank to the other, but then we get into that "filtering thing" again). I 
found that directly over the cat box was the best place to install as to 
catch the overflow. I originally used a small glass bowl to catch the stuff, 
but as you know, glass is defiantly not the thing to have onboard, so I 
switched to plastic. The only problem I'm having now is dealing with the 
residual odor from the dead fish that I can't wash out of the plastic or the 
grinder, but Peg Hall is suggesting a variety of "odor eaters" that I am 
presently evaluating. No filtering and no power! A much simpler solution!

Respectfully,

Ken Williams



> -----Original Message-----
> From: trawlers-and-trawlering-bounces@lists.samurai.com
> [mailto:trawlers-and-trawlering-bounces@lists.samurai.com]On Behalf Of 
> Doug
> Gould
> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 5:57 PM
> To:
> Subject: T&T: 30 micron vs 30amps, raining cats and dogs
>
> The other day, I was grinding some fish for my cat,
> trying to filter out the bones with a 2 mircon coffee
> filter attached to a Waring XL2300 blender on puree
> setting, powered from 120VAC on a single leg 30amp
> breaker fed from a 15amp shore power cord, which is
> plugged into an outlet shared with a soda machine that
> sells Bolivian beer. Although the breaker didn't trip,
> my cat wouldn't eat the food.
>
> So I'm wonder if the list can recommend a better set
> up. My dock neighbor has suggested a 12vdc blender
> plugged through a cigarette lighter outlet, but then I
> think I should use a 20 micron filter, to lessen the
> dc load, unless you think I should just feed the stuff
> to my neighbor's dog though a 5/8" garden hose. My
> mechanic says the problem is I'm taking power from the
> 2000 watt inverter, which overloads the system, and
> suggested I try a vacuum instead of a blender, but I
> can't seem to figure out how to plug the inverter into
> my racor vacuum gauge, which would replace the 20
> micron coffee filter. My wife has a Hoover vacuum, but
> that won't run on the inverter unless I'm making
> coffee at the same time, but then we don't have enough
> filters for the blender, so not only does the cat get
> hungary, but the breaker trips on the genset,
> especially when the Hoover gets clogged with cat hair.
> I've bled the Waring and the Hoover, but still the cat
> won't touch the food. We've even tried coffee grounds
> in the racor, but then the genset runs like crap, and
> I only get about 92volts AC from that.
>
> hope the list can make some meaningful suggestions.
>
> Doug
> Water Torture
> Block Island
>
> ps: the Bolivian beer soda machine is next to a ping
> pong table. Do you think I should move the table
> farther away from the outlet?