Checking laterals in old Pac-Fab Triton TR60 filter? Sand blowing back into the pool!

[FormerBromineUser]

Is that another crack?

[mitchryan912]

That's a BIG crack.

[FormerBromineUser]

I know nothing about equipment... Is that the original broken bit or a new one you found?

[mitchryan912]

That's the original broken hub. It's pretty well cracked, which isn't surprising since this is a 25 year old filter. Most of the plastic inside is pretty brittle and worn.

Here's the old hub, now broken in half, attached to the piping assembly. It turns out that the piping assembly spins off, which makes taking it apart a helluva lot easier.
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The black piece is the new hub. I'm going to hack off the old hub (it's glued on) and put a male thread adapter on it so I can screw on the new hub.

Here's a groove in the lateral threads. Sand must have been coming through this groove.
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The two piping assemblies thread onto these male threads. It took a while to figure that out.
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[FormerBromineUser]

Geez. I am impressed! Even the thought of opening my filter to check the laterals gets my nerves going...

[mitchryan912]

Thanks. I'm definitely enrolled a crash course on all this, as I'm only in my second year (ever) of pool ownership! I honestly have had no idea what I'm doing, but it's not so bad thus far. There's a decent knowledgebase online, and I hope I'm adding to it with what I'm doing (though I don't know how many pre-1990 Triton's are still in service...) It also helps to have a kicks pool shop nearby too (the only pool store anyone on here has ever found to stock K2006's), as they have most of the replacement parts in stock.

[FormerBromineUser]

It's people like you wanting to help others in the future that make this forum so great. Thanks!