The "G" in SWG stands for Generator. An SWG takes salt out thew pool and converts it over to chlorine. THe BBB method refers to maintaining you pool with Bleach, Borax and Baking Soda. These are technically the only three chemicals that you really should need to maintain a Chlorine pool. Unfortunatley I cannot help you with the skimmer but you would be smart to post that question as a new thread instead of burying it in here. Also, I would put it in the pool repair forum instead of this one.

Keith