Bipeflier
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Just a heads up since you are new to RVing. If you park in a spot with sewer connection, DO NOT connect your hose and leave the dump valve on your black water tank OPEN. Leave the valve closed until your tank is at least 3/4 full, or until you are ready to leave and go home.
If you leave the valve open the liquid "stuff" will drain and the solid "stuff" will stay in the tank, harden, and be a bear to remove.
If you already knew this, I appologize for the redundency.
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pawatt
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Bipeflier wrote:Just a heads up since you are new to RVing. If you park in a spot with sewer connection, DO NOT connect your hose and leave the dump valve on your black water tank OPEN. Leave the valve closed until your tank is at least 3/4 full, or until you are ready to leave and go home.
If you leave the valve open the liquid "stuff" will drain and the solid "stuff" will stay in the tank, harden, and be a bear to remove.
If you already knew this, I appologize for the redundency.
This is a must & is worth repeating.
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Recycled1
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enblethen wrote:I switched out to this system. Much easier to store.
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2x. I recently stayed at a pvt campground where they come by and check if you have a right angle elbow, before they will unlock the sewer connection and let you connect.
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Old-Biscuit
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pawatt wrote:Bipeflier wrote:Just a heads up since you are new to RVing. If you park in a spot with sewer connection, DO NOT connect your hose and leave the dump valve on your black water tank OPEN. Leave the valve closed until your tank is at least 3/4 full, or until you are ready to leave and go home.
If you leave the valve open the liquid "stuff" will drain and the solid "stuff" will stay in the tank, harden, and be a bear to remove.
If you already knew this, I appologize for the redundency.
This is a must & is worth repeating.
This advice is golden....
Also after dumping your black and rinsing it. Close dump valve and then add couple of full toilet bowls of water back into black tank so bottom of tank stays wet and any 'stuff' left behind can just slosh around as you drive.
Then dump your grey water tank so the semi-clean & soapy water can rinse out drain line and sewer hose.
So you got one sewer hose...get an extra one
Get the clear adapter so you can see what/how it's draining & when done
Get the sewer line threaded adapter to screw into CG sewer line fitting and hook your hose up to
Get the spongy/rubber sewer 'donut' to stick inside CG sewer line if it's just a straight pipe then stick your threaded adapter thru it and hook up your hose
Get a tank rinser wand for rinsing thru toilet or install one into black tank if your trailer doesn't have one
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tenbear
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Lots of good advice here. I have a couple of thoughts:
If you are planning to store the sewer hose in the 4" metal tube that runs across the back of many RVs, you will find that the Rhino will not fit in the tube.
2 hoses are better than one. Most of the time you will only need to use a short length, and it is easier to work with a 10' hose than a 20 footer.
IMHO the person in the video mentioned above gets carried away with getting his black tank clean. It isn't necessary to get it absolutely clean. You certainly don't want to go thru all that at the dump station with other RVers waiting in line.
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Here'n'There
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jls wrote:It appears you have all you need. The end of the hose to the left as pictured goes on the dump fitting. It goes on then turns to the right to hold. The right end (as pictured) goes in the hole at the dump station. You then open the Black first(usually the larger valve)then when black is done draining, open the gray. That way the gray rinses the hose.
Hummmmm.... BEFORE following this advise, especially the part that says "The right end (as pictured) goes in the hole at the dump station" I would strongly suggest you beg, borrow, or steal (not really) the DVD movie "RV" and watch the Dump Station scene several times.
After that, you will be purchasing the proper connecting hardware for the dump stand pipe as offered by other responses.
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DanKirk
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tenbear wrote:Lots of good advice here. I have a couple of thoughts:
If you are planning to store the sewer hose in the 4" metal tube that runs across the back of many RVs, you will find that the Rhino will not fit in the tube.
Maybe not in some, but my Rhino hose fits in my 4" square bumper tube, including the 90 degree end.
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Turtle n Peeps
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You need a hose spreader.
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rerod
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Thanks for the time saving suggestions.
DanKirk wrote:tenbear wrote:Lots of good advice here. I have a couple of thoughts:
If you are planning to store the sewer hose in the 4" metal tube that runs across the back of many RVs, you will find that the Rhino will not fit in the tube.
Maybe not in some, but my Rhino hose fits in my 4" square bumper tube, including the 90 degree end.
Will the Rhino fit into my 4 1/4" ID tube seen on the front is this picture?
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jalichty
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The Rhino fits in my bumper in the back of my FW just fine. You just have to twist the connector a bit to get it in the proper position to slide in. Biggest problem I have is getting it back out, I have to put fingers around both sides of the dump "connection" side to grab it and slide it out, don't seem to be able to just grab it with one set of fingers. Might not be the connection's fault, maybe I'm just a little bit uncoordinated and fingers a little to fat.
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