Whale water connector

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Our MH has one of these and needs the connector hose to fill. When away at the weekend, we couldn’t remove the site hose from the tap and had to use a watering can to put some in. The problem being, that filling hole is on the lounge floor under the carpet so we need to carry several cans in throug th MH
Is there an easy way to remove this connector so we can just fill with a open ended hose? What is the point of the whale fitting, I can see it would be good for a permanent fitting but we won’t ever need that
 
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Are you talking about the whale point that powers a submersible electric pump to lift from a aqua roll or similar?

Like this.

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Martin
 
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I don’t have a hole to pour water into like a petrol filler, it’s a square connector which is on the hose and clips into caravan socket
 
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Drifter said:
Amazon product ASIN B00J5P7DF6
It has one of these square connectors, no pump just attached to water hose
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That is the pump that goes into the socket that I posted, drop the pump end into a water container and switch on.

And to answer your question directly no you won't be able to remove this and just fill as the pipe will be too smaller diameter to fill by gravity, and ours is actually below the top level of the water tank so definitely wouldn't work.

Martin

EDIT or do you mean you have that fitting but without the pump in which case it is called a city connection I think but as above no good for gravity.

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I don’t have a pump, I have a hose with a normal tap connector at one end and a whale connector at the other, which attaches to the whale connector on MH, I’m saying I’d rather just have a hole to pop a hose in with no whale connector so I have the option to fill with a watering can
 
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Drifter said:
I don’t have a pump, I have a hose with a normal tap connector at one end and a whale connector at the other, which attaches to the whale connector on MH, I’m saying I’d rather just have a hole to pop a hose in with no whale connector so I have the option to fill with a watering can
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OK you will need a hose of at least 30mm diameter I would say and a fitting into the tank, cut a hole in the van to put the fill point and it would need to be quite high up so you need a way through inside to the tank, OR just get the pump attachment for your fitting and pump it on from a container (y)

Does your fitting have the electrical connectors?

Martin
 
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Had this system on my Bailey 740SE. Hated it. I fitted an addition water filler and piping that bypassed the Whale system.
 
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funflair said:
OK you will need a hose of at least 30mm diameter I would say and a fitting into the tank, cut a hole in the van to put the fill point and it would need to be quite high up so you need a way through inside to the tank, OR just get the pump attachment for your fitting and pump it on from a container (y)

Does your fitting have the electrical connectors?

Martin
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Electrical? No idea, water thing clips into it

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Vic said:
Had this system on my Bailey 740SE. Hated it. I fitted an addition water filler and piping that bypassed the Whale system.
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It’s a bailey we have so must be common, how did you do it? Or did a garage do it?
 
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Just googled it and it’s been discussed on here before, it’s recognised as a stupid idea so no wonder I can’t make sense of it
 
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Drifter,

I did the conversion myself. Found the pics. Filler from e bay, rest from local pond shop.
 

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Vic said:
Drifter,

I did the conversion myself. Found the pics. Filler from e bay, rest from local pond shop.
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I’m not into that, I’d wreck something and the spare room would be the driver seat, sod that ?

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Drifter said:
Just googled it and it’s been discussed on here before, it’s recognised as a stupid idea so no wonder I can’t make sense of it
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I certainly wouldn't want it as the only way of filling but as an addition to a gravity fill point as you would like I think it is OK, we have both and I use both in different circumstances.

If you check your socket you will see wether or not there are electrical contact strips on either side of the socket then you can buy the pump that Paul and Kate use and fit a gravity filler outlined by Vic best of both worlds then.

Martin
 
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If I get a connector like that with a wedge/cone shape it would fit any hose I come across, it’s just finding one
 
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Dont forget to use food grade hose otherwise your water may have a horrible taste.
We have the hose and block cut down then have 2 lengths of food grade hose with hoselok connectors.
When parked up though and you need a top up the electric pump and aqua roll is a lot easier.
Which Bailey do you have

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In my experience its quite rare that you can't connect your own hose to the site tap so I would suggest you carry a few different tap fittings and some hose if you want to keep lifting the floor hatch If you also a pump for your whale point you will be able to pump on from a container as it's not always convenient or even possible to take the van to the tap.

Martin
 
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Paul and Kate said:
Dont forget to use food grade hose otherwise your water may have a horrible taste.
We have the hose and block cut down then have 2 lengths of food grade hose with hoselok connectors.
When parked up though and you need a top up the electric pump and aqua roll is a lot easier.
Which Bailey do you have
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We got a approach 625
 
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Got one of these, will get a short length of hose in case we need a plan b to fill under floor. Cheers for advice
 
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Paul and Kate said:
So you have the electrical bit in the socket for the pump to work.
Buy 2 of these.
I wanted to share this product from Amazon.co.uk with you
Amazon product ASIN One of these
Hozelock Pro Metal Double Male Hose End Connector Amazon product ASIN B0034G5NTA
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I want to have the ability to connect to various sizes of hose just in case, hence looking for a tapered one but cheers
Just need a couple of jubilee clips now
 
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Drifter said:
I want to have the ability to connect to various sizes of hose just in case, hence looking for a tapered one but cheers
Just need a couple of jubilee clips now
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To be honest Drifter I've only ever come across the threaded type taps which you screw the hoselok adapter onto.
 
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