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Post by bagpipeswest on May 4, 2015 9:46:01 GMT -8
I intentionally put the toilet on the street side. This way you can run your blackwater pipe straight across to the other side for 2 reasons. you can have your valve set back so its completely under the trailer and if you really have to use your toilet without it being hooked up you can, but only twice. That pipe can hold alot. I also carry a blue portable blackwater tank.
I your thinking of this way. I can tell you the height I ended up with under the trailer. I did raise the trailer 4"
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Post by mobiltec on May 4, 2015 11:39:01 GMT -8
I intentionally put the toilet on the street side. This way you can run your blackwater pipe straight across to the other side for 2 reasons. you can have your valve set back so its completely under the trailer and if you really have to use your toilet without it being hooked up you can, but only twice. That pipe can hold alot. I also carry a blue portable blackwater tank. I your thinking of this way. I can tell you the height I ended up with under the trailer. I did raise the trailer 4" Not to get too far off track but if you look real close you can see that John Palmer did pretty much the same thing with his Mallard. The only difference is that he ran the sewer pipe towards the other side of the trailer and then did a U turn with it and brought it back to the curb side thus adding a little more than twice the capacity to hold sewage.
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John Palmer
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Post by John Palmer on May 4, 2015 12:13:18 GMT -8
Thanks for the photo Larry.
The pipe is 3" diameter by 10' in length, the volume will work for two days, for two people. I found this out when I forgot to "open the gate valve" after connecting at the RV park and it suddenly stopped draining, LOL.
The ABS flows very easily. There's only maybe a little over one inch of drop in ten feet of length between the elbow and the exit valve. The 180 degree bend at the curbside end was made up from two "wide sweeps", to give it a easy return.
The goal you want to work toward, is to have the hose connection "as high as possible" for good water drainage. Not every camp site is level, and some of the waste drains are above the ground level, and when combined with an elbow you could easily be needing "to make water run uphill". If I were doing a "frame up" build, I'd run the drain pipe "through the frame" to gain height.
The white thing you see holding the drain hose is a common PVS house rain gutter. It's ten foot in length, cut at four and six feet. This makes it easy to transport, and the two pieces become telescoping.
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