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pbitschura
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May 24, 2018

Water fill tube Question

Wife informs me that she has no problem filling fresh water tank with pressure nozzle. I have wondered why it wants to air lock and fill slowly, Today I crawled under there and find that the fill tibe makes a 90 and runs over a side stile in one of the cabinets. In doing so it makes a slight incline to the result that it will only gravity feed 1/3 of the tube diameter. Is this by design or by stupid?

There is room to notch and fix the issue.

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  • Old-Biscuit wrote:
    dougrainer wrote:
    Old-Biscuit wrote:
    "Boss says I'm doing fresh water installs. And to think yesterday I was just a lot jockey. This job is alright......Boss says I should be doing electrical wiring by next week"


    Sorry, but RV factory jobs are specialized. They do NOT move people around from dept's. They do NOT have time to move and train people for specific dept's. The production line moves too fast to wait for a novice to get up to speed. Doug


    Piece Mill work requires NO TRAINING
    And majority of workers in RV MFG Factories in Elkhart work 'Piece Mill'


    Biscuit, you do not know what you are talking about. Bonus systems are set up to indeed make them work faster, but if you think YOU or just anybody could just walk in and start building the units without training, you are nuts. I WORKED in Elkhart for 5 years building RV's and you have to KNOW what you are doing. The nice thing about RV building unlike Auto building is, they have NO unions. The Dept workers determine if someone stays working. Don't pull your weight, THEY make sure you are gone. They will not allow lazy people to pull them down. Bonus or Piece Rate, same principle applies. I just got back from Jayco a few months ago, and am thankfull I am an RV Tech instead of a Line worker. The pace is incredible and yes they make mistakes, but not caused by lack of skill. Doug
  • dougrainer wrote:
    Old-Biscuit wrote:
    "Boss says I'm doing fresh water installs. And to think yesterday I was just a lot jockey. This job is alright......Boss says I should be doing electrical wiring by next week"


    Sorry, but RV factory jobs are specialized. They do NOT move people around from dept's. They do NOT have time to move and train people for specific dept's. The production line moves too fast to wait for a novice to get up to speed. Doug


    Piece Mill work requires NO TRAINING
    And majority of workers in RV MFG Factories in Elkhart work 'Piece Mill'
  • I had to re-route my fill tube, too. It sure works better without having to pump the water uphill!! ;)
  • dougrainer wrote:
    Old-Biscuit wrote:
    "Boss says I'm doing fresh water installs. And to think yesterday I was just a lot jockey. This job is alright......Boss says I should be doing electrical wiring by next week"


    Sorry, but RV factory jobs are specialized. They do NOT move people around from dept's. They do NOT have time to move and train people for specific dept's. The production line moves too fast to wait for a novice to get up to speed. Doug


    They =train= people before slappping a nail gun (or whatever) in their hand? Coulda fooled me from some of the cr@p I've seen.

    Lyle
  • Old-Biscuit wrote:
    "Boss says I'm doing fresh water installs. And to think yesterday I was just a lot jockey. This job is alright......Boss says I should be doing electrical wiring by next week"


    And CEO by next year. :B

    Lyle
  • Old-Biscuit wrote:
    "Boss says I'm doing fresh water installs. And to think yesterday I was just a lot jockey. This job is alright......Boss says I should be doing electrical wiring by next week"


    Sorry, but RV factory jobs are specialized. They do NOT move people around from dept's. They do NOT have time to move and train people for specific dept's. The production line moves too fast to wait for a novice to get up to speed. Doug
  • The stupid is it took me ten years before I was fed up and actually looked in there. Over 90 degrees today so I'll wait a few days to fix it.
  • "Boss says I'm doing fresh water installs. And to think yesterday I was just a lot jockey. This job is alright......Boss says I should be doing electrical wiring by next week"
  • "Stupid".
    The deeper you dig into any RV, the more of these little engineering marvels you'll find to fix.

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