17 B Mods 2

[yardsale]

Originally Posted by cpaharley2008

I found when I was camping one Super Bowl weekend in W. Va where it got down to 5 at night, that right before dumping I ran warm water into both the black and grey tanks. We had heated water hookups and a heated water supply hose ($$) thus could fill with warm water. Dumping was successful.

Guess I don't understand how adding additional hot water to the bw tank would affect the temp of the slurry at the far end of a 3' pipe.

Was it a fun or tragic weekend for you?

[cpaharley2008]

It was nice to watch in the camper to listen to the game. My point was adding warm water made the slurry easier to dump, that was my experience. We were using water all weekend but the trailer had been winterized previously and there was some antifreeze in the tanks. I routinely hook up the e-z winterizing to a gallon of antifreeze to use the toilet while camping without water so there was some slurry. This particular weekend there happened to be heated water at the cg, so we took advantage of it.

[yardsale]

Got it. Also considering a skirt with a heat source under it--simple.

[Brian B-P]

Originally Posted by yardsale

I have been bugging my mechanic to install a second gate valve just below the black tank such that the problematic area is EMPTY until you are ready to dump. This would diminish the already limited capacity of the black tank but it would help. Mechanic says there isn't enough space to install it there.

You may want to look at an early Escape 17B for inspiration, since those trailers had the black dump valve mounted that way. In this photo of a 2006 model the fiberglass area is washed out (overexposed) so it's hard to see any detail, but at least it shows the general configuration.

In this case the black valve output side connects directly to a combining Y facing outward, which is the final outlet; in the proposed configuration the valve output would connect to an elbow facing rearward, followed by the stock horizontal run and combining Y.

[yardsale]

Failure to stay organized in a small trailer can result in this sorry condition.


Yes. Brian, that is what it would look like. Thanks for the photo.