Mikey RV
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Does anybody use one of these on their motorhome and if so is it any good. I understand you just connect it up and fill your tank what I want to know is. What happens when the tank is full.
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Does anybody use one of these on their motorhome and if so is it any good. I understand you just connect it up and fill your tank what I want to know is. What happens when the tank is full.
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Mikey I would take the end off your hose and shove it into the filler that way when your tank is full it can only come back out of the filler hole.
If I did not have a overflow on my tank I would not use it
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We've got one and they come already set up so that once full the water then comes back out past the connector so you don't need to have an overflow on your tank, you can also have them without this but can't think why you'd particularly want to bother altering it for the sake of it! They are also able to fit a different size of water inlet - have a look at the detail on the websites.
I think it's good but unfortunately our camper has weird 'bend' in the filler pipe and a vertical tank so has a tendency to 'glug' a bit when we've used it so we've gone back to sticking the hose in and holding it ... shame as it would have been great not having to have telescopic arms to reach the tap, or need 2 of your to do the filling.
If anyone wants to buy mine (£17 delivered) which has only been used twice let me know, I don't have the packaging anymore but do have the bits and the instructions (cheapest on the web is £22 I think).
To be fair it's not just a screw cap and bit of plastic pipe, but has the adaptor rings in for different set-ups/filler sizes and is quite solidly made so I don't think that it's bad for the price ... of course you could buy mine for £17.So.... this little doodat is a great invention. It's just the price of the bloody things that has stopped me from buying one! at aroung 20 quid its the principle of the rip off rather like a lot of camper accessories that prevent me from a purchase. The motorhome world is full of overpriced things like this. and its a real shame. Take plastic mirrorguards for instance!
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Yes, we've tried that but unfortunately when on aires often you can't adjust the pressure as it's just one of the daft push-on taps and comes out like a ruddy rocket and our tank set-up doesn't like it!Ours sort of catches up with its self so we just run the tap slower and that solves the problem..
To be fair it's not just a screw cap and bit of plastic pipe, but has the adaptor rings in for different set-ups/filler sizes and is quite solidly made so I don't think that it's bad for the price ... of course you could buy mine for £17.
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Can't use your links but the white ones were only for use with tanks with overflow and air pipes, whereas the blue one can be used with either set-up, hence why they only sell the blue one now I believe.Very useful when only one person's available.
We have a white connector. I couldn't remember why so I looked it up:
http://www.**********s.com/heoswater-white-connection-p-155.html
http://www.**********s.com/heoswater-blue-connection-p-156.html
There are 2 types one for tanks with an overflow/vent and one for non vented tanks.That's what I normally do Paul, just wondered if there was any advantage to having that little gadget. My tank does not have a overflow so had visions of it blowing the tank up if it could not leak out from that fitting.
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I have one and think it's very convenient. I wonder if repeatedly Jaming your hose in the filler hole will eventually damage the interior pipe which may be difficult to access and much more expensive to repair than the cost of one of these.Thanks MG, I would love one, but Ill just keep jamming my pipe in the hole!
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Good for you, however I suppose it might be different on motorhome of a different make, for example the interior pipe on my Rapido A class is not very accessible, at least it not easily. Happily it was put together right.No not at all, even if I had to replace the whole filler system as most things are an easy fix on a motorhome, after all its just a box glued on the back of a van chassis. Not expensive, only a pipe, I have already had to "modify" the filling system because of the bloody stupid factory fitters using a air hose from the filler to the tank, that leaked from new, so I know it intimately!
That's one of the advantages of not being afraid and being able to repair and modify something made by a group of the lowest paid monkeys out of wood and plastic costing thousands!
The one for the was sur erdre like a jet wash, on weekends they used it to wash down mountain bikesYes, we've tried that but unfortunately when on aires often you can't adjust the pressure as it's just one of the daft push-on taps and comes out like a ruddy rocket and our tank set-up doesn't like it!
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Looks like a solution in search of a problem to me.
I just use normal hose, with a short length of extra hose permanently gaffer-taped to it about 6 inches back from the end...so that it fits snuggly into the filler hole on our MH and the extra bit of double-hose acts to wedge the pipe in place, but also acts as a breather too.
I just push the hose into the filler opening, it stays in place whilst filling until I decide to withdraw it.
Cost?
About 3p.
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Some of my hoses have connectors that are a bit smaller than the Hozelock ones they just fit in the filler neck and never fly out even with the highest water pressure.
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