[Public-list] Wilcox Crittenden Junior Head questions

[Dave Terrell]

At Strictly Sail in Chicago, I saw an improved version of the airhead. My current system works fine, but if I had a problem, I would look very closely at it.

>>> BRIAN HOFLER <bhofler at shaw.ca> 3/14/2007 3:28 PM >>>
Perhaps consider an Airhead composting toilet.

----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Kirk <isobar at bcpl.net>
Date: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 11:31 am
Subject: Re: [Public-list] Wilcox Crittenden Junior Head questions

> Dudley... I had the same problem as you a couple of years ago as 
> Wilcox 
> Crittenden was being absorbed by the new owners. It turned out 
> that the 
> parts diagram you show bore no resemblance to the actual state of 
> affairs 
> where all the old W-C parts were unsorted in skip boxes in a new 
> warehouse 
> and no one was interested in sorting them. I doubt you'll have 
> much luck in 
> tracing parts since the new folks were interested in a different 
> part of 
> W-C than the heads. One of their disgruntled engineers advised me 
> to forget 
> repair and buy a new, cheaper head [not the Headmate, but a 
> different 
> brand.] that wouldn't last forever but was more cost effective. I 
> did, and 
> the replacement was easy and the results fine.
> 
> I gave my old W-C head to Matt Blaine for parts; you might contact 
> him.
> Bob Kirk
> Isobar #181
> 
> At 11:56 AM 3/14/2007, Dudley Baker wrote:
> >[...] I called
> >Thetford (new owners of WC heads) and of course parts 30 and 24 
> are no 
> >longer available.  (Even if
> >they were, I cannot see how new shafts could be installed in the 
> >cylinder  -- somewhat of a chinese
> >puzzle).
> >...
> >So here are my questions:
> >1)  Is there anyone out there who may have an old Junior sitting 
> around 
> >where I could buy just the
> >Cylinder assembly?  The rest of my head is fine.
> >2)  If repairing the Junior is not possible or realistic, I then 
> go to the 
> >option of purchasing its
> >successor -- the Headmate -- Who out there has made such a switch 
> and is 
> >mounting hole pattern the
> >same?
> >
> >Thanks in advance and if I go the Headmate route, I will have a 
> repair kit 
> >#1599 for sale at a good
> >price!
> >
> >Dudley Baker
> >Heron #297
> 
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