Removing a Polaris 180 Pool Cleaner Tail

Video Transcript

"ALLYN CHRISTOPHER: Before we can start putting new parts in we've gotta take the old parts out and start to break them down. So this is kind of a sequence you can use to go through to strip the old guy down and begin bringing her back up. First thing, float head. Now you want to gently unscrew it, a little bit of pull pressure as you do that, all right, because this piece right over here on the mast you don't want to break, all right? If you do, then you're talking about cutting and epoxying. They do make a replacement piece but gosh, this is a--that's something you don't want to get involved in. So if you just gentle and you're pulling it out, there it goes. Now a lot of times, yeah, you can hear water inside of this. You can't squeeze and get it out--I don't know how it gets in there but one of the ways to kill this is to have it full of water, and since they're to counteract the weight of the cleaner; having it full of water is not a great ballast idea. So we're just going to get rid of it. And in this case here we're going to take the tail off. Sweep tail actually does a lot of work for the cleaner but it's broken. So now normally I'd be telling you how to take off the attachment clamp here since that's one of the things that's broken and missing, we're not going to do that. Again don't break the nipple that it's attached to just ease her off. I'm going to put this aside so I'll show you why it's broken later. And then, we're going to get a little bit deeper into the cleaner."