Pool Maintenance - STA-RITE PTM50 Owner's Manual

Circular Rib or Outer Circular Rib or
Outer Seal Ring.
Seal Ring
Filter Element
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FIGURE 15
Vacuum to Waste Cycle
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FIGURE 16
Lowering or Draining Pool
FIGURE 17
Hose Clamp
Hose
To
Waste
Filter Base
FIGURE 18
pool professional. Acid washing should be done only by trained profes-
sionals who have proper safety equipment and acid disposal facilities.
O-Ring
Sealing Area
Specialty Filter Cleaners
Filter Cleanse
Base
Filter Kleen
Filter Kleen
Spa Cartridge Filter Clean
KLEEN-IT or
Kwik-Strip

POOL MAINTENANCE

Vacuum Cycle:
1. Attach vacuum hose to skimmer connection.
2. Adjust suction line valves to provide sufficient flow through vacuum tube.
3. Proceed to vacuum. Filtered water will be recirculated back to pool.
Vacuum to Waste Cycle:
If dirt load in pool has built up to the point that vacuuming to waste (bypass-
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ing filter) is desirable, proceed as follows:
1. Disassemble filter.
sembled. To avoid severe injury or major property damage, exactly fol-
low instructions under "Disassembly" (Page 8)!
2. Thread a 1-1/2" 90 degree PVC elbow into female adapter on filter base
(see Figure 18).
3. Attach hose to elbow as shown in Figure 18; run hose to waste water dis-
Elbow: Male
posal area.
Pipe Thread
NOTICE: Be sure all waste water disposal meets applicable local and state
to Hose Barb
standards and codes.
Adapter In
Place
4. Make sure Tank Drain Port is closed or plugged.
5. Adjust valves on suction pipe for vacuum operation.
6. Attach vacuum hose to skimmer connection.
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7. Start filter pump; vacuum pool.
8. Adapter can be left on collar for future cleaning.
(for Degreasing and Scale Removal)
Hazardous pressure. Filter may explode if incorrectly disas-
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Great Lakes Biochemical Co.
6120 West Douglas Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53218
GFC Chemical Co.
P.O. Box 3827
West Palm Beach, FL 33402
Haviland Products Co.
421 Ann St. NW.
Grand Rapids, MI 49504
Leisure Time Chemical Corp.
Los Angeles, CA
Biolab Inc.
P.O. Box 1489
Decatur, GA 30031