I was wondering what people do when the hose for rinsing the black tank has no fitting. Went to dump the tanks and found the fitting on the rinse hose had been cut off. Anyone else seen this before? Got any solutions? Thanks, John
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You carry a couple of plastic barbed hose connectors, one 5/8 and 1 3/4" and use them to connect to a couple of short hose end pieces with ends on them that you carry. Also useful for filling fresh water tank when no threadded faucet is available.
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I think most of the dump station hoses I've seen have the fittings cut off. We carry a 25' grey hose specifically for flushing the black tank. Remove the dumb station hose from the faucet, connect our hose, flush the tank, swap hoses back, hit the road. A minor bother.
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We always use our own hose. I've installed Tornado tank rinsers on both the gray and black tanks. When I installed the hose connections, I put them right next to the dump valve and put hose quick connects on each one along with a quick detach cap for them (I use the quick connects with the fresh water setup, too...). Our 25 foot gray hose has the quick connect mate and a 40 psi pressure regulator installed. While I'm getting the slinky on and start the dump, the DW swaps the hoses...by the time she's got them swapped, I'm ready to hook up the first Tornado. When done, while I'm packing the stuff up, she swaps the hoses back.
BTW, I use the 40 psi regulator on the gray hose to keep from blowing up the Tornado rinsers...I've found that many dump stations have way too much pressure on their rinse hoses; high pressure causes most of the "problems" that folks have had with the Tornado rinsers
Don
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Like others, I have a rinse hose that I will connect - remove the stub, which was just long enough to rinse any spillage down the drain. I think CG folks to this to help ensure that folks don't try to fill potable water tanks with the rinse water. Several dump stations I've used had warnings posted that the rinse water was not potable.
jplunkett wrote: Like others, I have a rinse hose that I will connect - remove the stub, which was just long enough to rinse any spillage down the drain. I think CG folks to this to help ensure that folks don't try to fill potable water tanks with the rinse water. Several dump stations I've used had warnings posted that the rinse water was not potable.
safe travels,
I have rarely seen a hose at a dump station that had a male fitting on the hose. I just swap it with a short gray water hose I carry and do my thing and swap back when finsh.
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If it is a regular hose just carry a spare 1/2 or 5/8 lawn fitting. If it is one of those smnaller rubber hoses I made a smnall one that works. Go to the compressor area of home depot etc. and get a connector that is 3/8 and 1/2 inch at other end. Clamp it on to a piece of hose then keep a spare clamp for clamping to the cut piece of hose. On the 1/2" home piece just put a regular fitting and voila. I made one for the in laws as well and he says he needs it all the time. Where we live they cut them off so the atv guys don't wash their unti. This tends to keep them away.
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SteveRankin wrote: I think most of the dump station hoses I've seen have the fittings cut off. We carry a 25' grey hose specifically for flushing the black tank. Remove the dumb station hose from the faucet, connect our hose, flush the tank, swap hoses back, hit the road. A minor bother.
bradyk wrote: If it is a regular hose just carry a spare 1/2 or 5/8 lawn fitting. If it is one of those smnaller rubber hoses I made a smnall one that works. Go to the compressor area of home depot etc. and get a connector that is 3/8 and 1/2 inch at other end. Clamp it on to a piece of hose then keep a spare clamp for clamping to the cut piece of hose. On the 1/2" home piece just put a regular fitting and voila. I made one for the in laws as well and he says he needs it all the time. Where we live they cut them off so the atv guys don't wash their unti. This tends to keep them away.
Where we go alot the hose looks like a 1/2 inch. Could you post a pic of what your talking about? The way I have been using the intank rinser is to hook a 50ft garden hose to fresh water supply and stretch it out to rinser. A real pain! Thanks, John
I carry two of them. One (green one) is for use at a freshwater hydrant. The other (blue one) is for use at dump stations.
They press on the hose or bib without any threads and allow you to put on your own hose. They have a graduated inside diameter that fits every situation I have come across.
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