Hi, I'm a first-time hot tub owner, as a result of my wife and I buying our first home. The hot tub is a Calspa PS5, manufactured in 1995. It was working when the previous-previous owners moved away in 2010, but the people we bought the house from didn't use it at all, so it's been sitting empty for 3 years. It's been covered the entire time, and is in a cedar enclosure, so it's been mostly out of the elements.
Currently, I'm wondering how to fix this problem:
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It's on the input to the filter canister, so if I'm not mistaken, it won't be under pressure. It looks to me like the elbow was installed at the wrong angle, or the filter canister got rotated, and it over-stressed the flex pipe. Would something like
this fix it, or would that not work because of the bend?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
-Brent