Dumped slinky recovery
The very first time I dumped, the slippery slinky slipped off its fitting attached to the RV and ran into the hole at amazing speed. It happened again this week, 4 years later. What an embarrassing ...
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do you not have a fitting on your rv that it clips on? Im new to this and only dumped mine once but you put it on and turn it and it locks on tight, I dont see how it would ever fall off accidentally, lol!
Yep - that part worked well and stayed in place. The slinky escaped from under the big hose clamp, whose screw was quite tight even after the escape. No chance to chase it - I couldn't even follow it with my eye. It happened after the dump when I was spraying fresh water in to wash the tank out (through a built in tank cleaning feature). I was repeatedly moving the slinky up off the ground to make it flow better and probably shook it loose when there was a gallon of water in it.
The hole was way too deep to reach with arm and hand. About 5 feet down to the missing slinky.
Thanks very much for the idea of putting an elbow on the outlet end of the slinky. That will eliminate the escaping slinky problem all right. I guess it will have to be removed to get the slinky into its storage tube. How about a large elbow that the slinky could be pushed through for each use, tight enough to hold the slinky from running down?
