Sky Deck Renovation
Just bought a 2003 Thor Citation Sky Deck. 34' Fifth Wheel. Came from Alexander RV in Delaware. Good people to deal with. Here it is on the lot: I just got it down to North Carolina and plan to...
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Sky Deck wrote:Big Katuna wrote:
I have an external macerater that I use to dump at home when I dry camp/tailgate. Some here will extol the pleasure and virtues of macerators. They clog, break and require maintenance. I only use mine to dump at home a few times a year.
Can you explain a little more? Does your system flush water into the black water tank? Are you using it so you can pump the waste out (uphill or long distance), instead of using gravity? Has your external macerator system given you problems? Any experience with a macerator toilet? Thanks.
A Macerator is a garbage disposal and a water pump like on your outboard motor combined. A macerator does not pump water into your tank. It has a 20A pump/garbage disposal/ boat water pump that will pump **** up 12' 80' uphill. That is how I use mine. I pump 60' uphill uphill about a three ft rise.
Mine has been jammed a few times. I has quit pumping until I figured out it needs taken apart and cleaned annually.
There is a system that uses a water hose to pump craaap up a hill; don't bother.
Macerator toilets are not recommended unless you need to pump **** several feet away. A gum wrapper will jam them up. They use them in boats as the toilet is several feet away from where they dump #### into our waterways, therefore polluting our clean wa
