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Originally Posted by HPsauce

As I think I've posted elsewhere my ongoing solution to the scuttle drains is a length of flexible transparent tubing that is curled up on top of the ECU box cover.
(It actually came from an old beer and wine kit!)
The "business end" I have worked down fairly deep into the bottom of the scuttle and secured with a cable tie. I then use it to do two things:
1. Just as a syphon (it's long enough unfurled to reach over the side down below scuttle level) suck up some of the liquid until I can get a syphon going to drain most of it out.
2. As an agitator. After syphoning off the top layers add hot water and detergent then by sucking and blowing agitate the mess that's in there (usually mostly rotted leaves) and syphon off what I can.
3. Repeat the syphon/agitate process until it suddenly flushes away through the drains. Follow up with large quantities of hot soapy water to really clean it out.

Are you sure you're not brewing your own distinctive beer in there Andrew, by the sound of those instructions.

I could never get plastic tubing to work, which is why I used copper pipe, like brake pipe. It's flexible enough, but it keeps its shape pretty well whilst being worked around, so I try to bend it to shape before hand to try and get it into place. It's just time consuming.