Need help with Airstream plumbing issue...
My friend is 89 and has a 1970 Airstream (32'?) He doesn't know much about it but just moved into it and we're trying to get the plumbing sorted. Water wasn't coming out into the sink so we suspecte...
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It's rather hard to guess exactly what's going on without a bit more context in the pictures. (Thanks for taking and posting them, still—without them, we'd be far more in the dark!)
On modern RVs, you typically have three tanks in total—a freshwater supply tank, a blackwater tank for the toilet (and sometimes the bathroom sink), and a gray water tank for the shower and sinks. Old RVs (of that era) frequently did not have a gray water tank and just let the gray water run out on the ground. That's not really acceptable these days in most places.
The knob valves may be drain valves for the plumbing, or a water heater bypass setup for winterizing, or probably a bunch of other possible things grafted on.
The gas line valve may be for an external BBQ connection, but I'd be more inclined to suspect perhaps the trailer was semi-permanently installed somewhere and it connected to a bulk tank and regulator. In either case, it doesn't look to me like something I'd particularly want hanging off the bottom of my trailer when I was driving down the road.
On modern RVs, you typically have three tanks in total—a freshwater supply tank, a blackwater tank for the toilet (and sometimes the bathroom sink), and a gray water tank for the shower and sinks. Old RVs (of that era) frequently did not have a gray water tank and just let the gray water run out on the ground. That's not really acceptable these days in most places.
The knob valves may be drain valves for the plumbing, or a water heater bypass setup for winterizing, or probably a bunch of other possible things grafted on.
The gas line valve may be for an external BBQ connection, but I'd be more inclined to suspect perhaps the trailer was semi-permanently installed somewhere and it connected to a bulk tank and regulator. In either case, it doesn't look to me like something I'd particularly want hanging off the bottom of my trailer when I was driving down the road.
