Do you ever have that feeling...
Hotshot
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From: Bristol, TN.
Sometimes there is just not a perfect answer. The Marinco will slow the discharge, but not completely eliminate it, as you know.
How about relocating to a warmer clime? I think I heard somewhere that upstate New York is a bit chilly in the winter and, don't you have snow or something?
Steve
How about relocating to a warmer clime? I think I heard somewhere that upstate New York is a bit chilly in the winter and, don't you have snow or something?
Steve
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Fleet Mechanic
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From: Upstate NY
Sometimes there is just not a perfect answer. The Marinco will slow the discharge, but not completely eliminate it, as you know.
How about relocating to a warmer clime? I think I heard somewhere that upstate New York is a bit chilly in the winter and, don't you have snow or something?
Steve
How about relocating to a warmer clime? I think I heard somewhere that upstate New York is a bit chilly in the winter and, don't you have snow or something?
Steve
We tried to relocate to Western Virginia - just East of Roanoke but whatever we found was the right house - wrong location or the other way around. Or even worse, it was in the 2-3 mile radius, Jake Brake, noise zone off I-81. As far as snow - only a few flakes here but near Oswego and Watertown just off the Great Lakes - many inches. Locally, Killington Ski Area, just across the Vermont border is open if you have old 'rock' skis you don't mind damaging some more.
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Fleet Mechanic
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From: Upstate NY
Yep - since it's plumbed right at the water compartment, wasn't much to remember tho the never used washer spigots in the bed room closet could have been forgotten
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I can tell you not a good idea, unless you can keep a charge in them. If not they will freeze and the casing will crack and battery acid will be all over. I learned the hard way and had to replace 4 6 volt batteries. $960 lesson. But that was in Wolf Creek Montana -20.
More Turbo
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From: Randolph County NC
Maybe RV Tech can chime in on this... I overflow my toilet with antifreeze. I read that there is a trap on the toilet overflow that also needs to be winterized. Doing this requires at least another gallon. I use 3 gallons on my 31' travel trailer.
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From: Bristol, TN.
Just my opinion, but way over the top. Have never done anything with a commode other than make sure the water runs red. Never used 3 gallons in anything and never had an overflow problem. Just my experience.
Steve
Steve
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From: Randolph County NC
Thanks, will save a few $$ this year. Can you P.M. me a link to your blog?
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Fleet Mechanic
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From: Upstate NY
There is one thing that you may need to look at - and only if you have a SeaLand toilet - is to make sure that the sprayer and/or vacuum breaker has 'pink stuff' in it, pushing out all the water. A replacement valve is about $40 bucks and an hour to install as I found out on our last 5er
Gotta say though that it was a LOT better toilet then what we have in the current camper (a Thetford Aqua Magic II) even with that potential problem
Gotta say though that it was a LOT better toilet then what we have in the current camper (a Thetford Aqua Magic II) even with that potential problem
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My 5er is about 31 feet, one bathroom. I drain at the low points, bypass the hot water tank and pull the plug, close the low points and spigots, then start sucking antifreeze into the system. The initial prime consumes about 2/3rds of the first gallon. By the time I have cycled all the spigots including the outside shower, flushed the toilet, bled a little pink past the hot water bypass valve, and squirted a shot of pink out of the fresh water inlet check valve, I am near the bottom of gallon #2. Sometimes I have to crack open jug #3 just to be sure all the traps are treated good. Less than a gallon, I would be questioning myself too. Just doesn't sound right.
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Fleet Mechanic
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From: Upstate NY
This morning there was a 'revelation' about why I have 'that feeling'. That panel Winterizing hose bib along with the valve to bypass the HW heater are too remote from that heater, leaving several feet of PEX water line vulnerable to freeze up regardless of the fact that I blew it out, including having the lines to it open for at least a half hour using my pancake compressor. This compressor really does not put out the volume of my usual shop unit and what I've used in the past. Unfortunately it's down for some repairs. I'll probably just hope for the best but may install a better isolation system for next year with valves, tees and a bypass line as I did on the last 5er when the check valve failed and dumped a bunch of pink stuff in the tank.
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From: DFW, TX-GoldCanyon, AZ
I screwed up last year... First I blew out all the lines, water heater, low points,, etc. then pumped a couple gallons of pink through the system just to be safe.. Could not figure out why I was not getting pink out of the water spigot at the kitchen island - only clear water!!
Yup..
I poisoned the water filter... Grrrrr....
Oh well - no winterizing needed this year - We're in AZ until May...
Yup..
I poisoned the water filter... Grrrrr....
Oh well - no winterizing needed this year - We're in AZ until May...