I've had issues removing the plastic bowl from a Racor water-separating filter on my dinghy. It became so difficult to spin that more force spun the plastic threaded insert, and it would turn around and around but wouldn't unscrew.
This has happened twice to me - the first time it happened I didn't figure out a non-destructive way to remove the plastic bowl, so I ended up replacing the entire Racor assembly at 3x the cost of the replacement Parker filter alone.
This time I figured out a better way:
This has happened twice to me - the first time it happened I didn't figure out a non-destructive way to remove the plastic bowl, so I ended up replacing the entire Racor assembly at 3x the cost of the replacement Parker filter alone.
This time I figured out a better way:
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