Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:36:29 -0700
Reply-To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Puzzling water drip
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Or just put a crimp in the hose to shut it off.
Or use one of these:
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=208062309&listingid=45640598
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Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
Bend, OR
KG6RCR
On 8/27/2009 1:41 PM Joy Hecht wrote:
> That's how I do it - run the hose in the window, get all the junk in the
> compartment out of the way, fill the tank from the top.
>
> The thing is, it's good to have another person at the faucet on the hose, so
> you can ask them to turn it off when your tank is getting full. Otherwise
> you have to pull out the hose while it's running and toss it very quickly
> out the window.
>
>
>
> Joy
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Tom Buese <tombuese@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> To avoid the possible leaking into the van syndrome, it is easy to
>> fill the tank from inside by removing the 3-4" diameter tank cap &
>> placing the hose in the tank directly at any volume till it's full &
>> then turning off the hose before it overflows? It takes more time to
>> access the tank, but the filling is much faster, you can see how much
>> water you are putting in, the condition of the tank, pump, hoses etc.
>> & you get to bond w/ your storage tank & related equipment while
>> sitting inside?
>>
>> YMMV,
>>
>> Mr. BZ
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 27, 2009, at 11:56 AM, Troy wrote:
>>
>> <<How do you get the tank to fill rapidly, even with a rapid flow
>>> rate? I
>>> have to keep the flow rate very low, or water fills the filler tube
>>> and
>>> overflows. It takes a long while for me to fill the tank, being
>>> careful
>>> to avoid overflows due to backup as I go.>>
>>>
>>> That was going to be my question as well! A person would think that
>>> I have a 100 gallon tank inside the van with the amount of time it
>>> takes to fill that small 13 gallon tank. I've always had to keep the
>>> flow down to a slow trickle, although at times I thought about
>>> removing the screen to speed the process. Since the tube doubles as
>>> a vent, the water would probably come gushing back if filled too
>>> rapidly. The solution would be to add a vent, but it would have to
>>> terminate higher than the fill valve to avoid a leak, at least
>>> that's my theroy;)
>>>
>>> Troy
>>>
>
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