[urq] screen removal

[Ben Swann]

Thanks,

 

I found all this out the hard way, but at least removed the tank and cleaned it.  The
screen looked OK, so I left well enough alone.

 

Ben

 

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From: william chapman [mailto:fullboreurq at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 11:18 PM
To: benswann at comcast.net
Subject: screen removal

 

Hi Ben,

  Removal is much more involved than it would appear at first glance. when you remove
the tank,which you will have to do, look through the gage hole and you will see a small
square hole in the bottom of the tank. you will see the screen lying in the bottom of
it. This is actually a false bottom (baffle)? The outlet tube with the pre filter on it
passes through the tank bottom and becomes a screen covered tee that runs from right to
left in that false bottom. The only way to access it is to cut a patch out of it with a
die grinder and weld it back after the screen is out. You will also find that the tube
when it passes into the tank is spot welded to the tank bottom where the patch must come
out. If you are careful you can get the patch off without a piece of the tube coming
with it and leaving a hole. I did this operation on my sons urq because it sat in
storage for eleven years and totally crapped up his tank. After going through it all we
abandoned the tank after seeing how bad the inside was. I still have it if you would
like me to shoot a couple of pix of the opening? let me know.  HTH.  Bill Chapman 83
gobi in ct