Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 20:56:22 -0400
Reply-To: Pete Owsianowski <pnoceanwesty@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Pete Owsianowski <pnoceanwesty@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Shurflo faucet woe's
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So far, so good on our ShueFlo faucet. Installed last year and has worked perfectly 4X this season. I always Drain the tank and the lines and sanitize them with each fill up. By the way, disconnected the Cit Water hookup - our solar plug is there now and the faucet really flows well. Someone taught us to spin it upside down so the water bubbles out like a fountain. Handy for drinking and brushing teeth.
Pete Owsianowski
‘87 Westy “JoesVan”.
> On Jun 16, 2019, at 11:45, Eric Caron <ericcaron96@comcast.net> wrote:
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> Yes! VW bus creativity wins again.
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>
> This would be a strategy I could get behind.
>
> Last summer I stopped to see a 73 bus at a local garage that flips cars of all kinds. The man was taking everything out and tossing it away. I suggested he keep a few things as I pulled out original VW bus items out of the trash and handed them back to him. He had gotten the bus out of a storage place on a Craig’s list ad. He got it rally cheap.
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> Anyway there was a large gallon sized bottle of 1980’s vodka in the bus and I’m pretty sure it had a sink. Possibly the storage treatment of choice?
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> I hope that bus found a more informed owner.
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> Eric Caron
> 85 GL Auto
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>
>
>> On Jun 13, 2019, at 11:03 PM, Roy Nicholl <RNicholl@NBNET.NB.CA> wrote:
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>> Or … if it does not get freekishly cold where you are, pour a half-gallon of vodka into the tank in-lieu of the antifreeze … then you do not have to worry about flushing the system before the first camping trip next season.
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>>> On 13-Jun-2019, at 23:57, Roy Nicholl <RNicholl@NBNET.NB.CA> wrote:
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>>> Eric:
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>>> You can drain the tank, then pour in a gallon of anti-freeze {The kind made for RV/marine/household {potable} water systems, not what goes in the radiator ;-)} and run the faucet until the antifreeze flows forth.
>>>
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>>>> On 13-Jun-2019, at 21:34, Eric Caron <ericcaron96@COMCAST.NET> wrote:
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>>>> Hi Mark,
>>>>
>>>> Mine failed by leaking but I think it was operator error. I didn’t drain the lines completely and I think they froze. I’ve taken better care and the replacement didn’t fail.
>>>> In my case just draining the tank isn’t enough I need to get the water out of the entire system to avoid damage by freezing.
>>>>
>>>> Eric Caron
>>>> 85 GL auto
>>>> In sometimes cold VT.
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Jun 13, 2019, at 8:29 PM, Mark Tuovinen <aksyncronaut@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Last Sunday while camping, if you can call it that in Seward, AK, we
>>>>> suffered a faucet failure. In August of 2017 I installed a Shurflo faucet
>>>>> and new water lines into my `87 Westy Syncro. Shortly after I noticed it
>>>>> would leak a little from time to time but could not identify if it was at
>>>>> the flange where the faucet neck meets the housing or out at the end of the
>>>>> faucet. Sunday afternoon I found out as my son was attempting to do the
>>>>> dishes and the entire faucet end of the housing blew off spraying water
>>>>> everywhere until he turned the pump off. I was wondering if anyone has had
>>>>> this happen with theirs or did we just get lucky?
>>>>>
>>>>> Mark in AK
>>>>> `87 Westy Syncro
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