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K-9_HANDLER
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Jul 20, 2016

Interesting find in tub drain

So the tub drain has been slow since day one. Owned this unit for 11 years. While camping this week the drain developed a leak from the tub seal. I smeared some petroleum jelly around the tub drain which did the trick and lasted for the rest of the trip.
I took out the p trap and expected to find a ton of sand in it since the rig is only every used at the beach but low and behold I found two pieces of plastic from when the unit was made that must have fallen down the drain. After I reset the drain seal and but it all back together the thing drain really fast now. He is a pic of my find.
  • I got a wild hair somewhere one day, and decided to blow the dust (we did a lot of desert boondocking) out of the converter compartment. Thanks to the sloppiness of the Weekend Warrior workers, there were little slivers of aluminum in the compartment I didn't see, but were blown into the converter, which promptly shorted out in a spectacular fashion. Oh, well, upgraded to a better converter and all is well. I keep telling myself that.....
  • Golden_HVAC wrote:
    Great fix! Probably wish you could have done this 6 years ago!

    I like to use a vacuum cleaner to clean drain lines on HVAC systems. Once I found a marble in my vacuum cleaner. It must have come from one of the air conditioners on a mall I had been working on. So some mechanic - probably upset that a new company was taking over the maintenance put a marble into a 3/4" copper line on the rooftop air conditioner. This is not a "Easy" place for a kid to get to, there is a 20' tall ladder on the second floor, in the warehouse area of the store. They had 20 units on the roof, 15 ton capacity each.

    Have fun camping!

    Fred.

    Yeah you know it.
    Man a marble in a copper line, not nice. What effect did it have on the system?
  • Great fix! Probably wish you could have done this 6 years ago!

    I like to use a vacuum cleaner to clean drain lines on HVAC systems. Once I found a marble in my vacuum cleaner. It must have come from one of the air conditioners on a mall I had been working on. So some mechanic - probably upset that a new company was taking over the maintenance put a marble into a 3/4" copper line on the rooftop air conditioner. This is not a "Easy" place for a kid to get to, there is a 20' tall ladder on the second floor, in the warehouse area of the store. They had 20 units on the roof, 15 ton capacity each.

    Have fun camping!

    Fred.