Hi Jim Boyd,
With our '67 22' Airstream (no grey water tank), I installed a 3 inch diameter plastic
pipe between
the outlet valve for the black water tank and the outside edge of my sewer hose
carrier. There is
enough room in the carrier for both the pipe and the sewer hose. The pipe protrudes
through the iron
panel on the street side, just forward of the rear bumper. The pipe (about 3 feet
long) holds 2 to
3+ gallons. That is sufficient grey water storage for us when we're traveling and not
parked in a
campground. When we park our Airstream where there are no hookups, I connect to my
blue tank.
Otherwise, I connect directly to the sewer hole at the campsite.
On the end of the 3 inch plastic pipe, I glued an attachment for connecting my garden
hose or sewer
hose adapters. Grey water spillage is barely discernable when I am quick to connect.
Sometimes I use
an old dish pan to catch spillage, especially when parked in a prominent location
where there may be
a higher proportion of RV owners who might be quick to make false assumptions and come
to erroneous
conclusions based on what they think they just observed.
When we are boondocking and after I've connected the garden hose adapter, I route the
green hose
(short hose) into my 5 gallon blue tank. By holding the end of the green hose higher
than the pipe,
grey water stays in the pipe (learned that in my high school physics class) until I'm
ready for it
to go into the blue tank. Emptying the tank daily (before we retire for the night) is
quick,
sanitary and rarely open to misinterpretation by even the most inexperienced or
unthinking RVer. The
job seldom takes ten minutes and the 40# blue tank is readily managed by me.
Although I have several options for dealing with grey water, some are only useful in
selected
situations. Overall, I find it simple to deal with grey water without a built-in grey
water tank and
there's no dilemma. Not everyone feels as I do. That's okay. Each of us calls it as we
see it.
Terry
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Jim Boyd <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Multiple recipients of VACList <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 6:49 PM
>Subject: [VAC] Grey water tanks
>
>For some time now, I have been looking for information on installing grey
>water tanks to my 31' 72 International to no avail. I have just succeeded
>in doing so and wondered if there were any other folks with the same dilemma. If so,
>drop me a line.
>Jim Boyd 4839
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