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_40Fan's avatar
_40Fan
Explorer
Jul 09, 2013

Doh!

Purchased new TT over a month ago. Pulled out of dealer lot and saw water spill from the waste drain connection. I remembered seeing the cap in a drawer in the kitchen and just figured it was a little water left in the pipes between valves and drain hook up.

Get TT home and grab the cap and put it on the drain outlet.

Go camping this weekend and used the facilities. Get home and park the TT where we have drain capabilities and just as I am about to pull the cap I decided to make sure where the valve handles were. :E Both black and gray were open! Shut both and told the DW to hook up the drain hose. :D

A couple of shoulder high trash bags and a 5 gallon bucket led to a very happy, only water, ending.
  • mooky_stinks's avatar
    mooky_stinks
    Explorer
    Jul 11, 2013
    Roundtwo-40 wrote:
    mooky stinks wrote:
    I've got a very short clear extension between the pipe and cap. No surprises.


    like this?

    On Amazon.



    Exactly
  • pbohart's avatar
    pbohart
    Explorer
    Jul 10, 2013
    LOL! Same thing happened to a co-worker of mine over memorial day.

    We were at the same park over memorial day and I was driving by while he was dumping. He was soaking wet.

    I pulled up to him to ask why he was wet....then realized it wasnt *just* water ;) He was bending down and got the head to waiste brown shower.

    I quickly rolled up the window.
  • _40Fan's avatar
    _40Fan
    Explorer
    Jul 09, 2013
    opnspaces wrote:
    Good catch before you pulled the cap. And you're a braver man than me if you actually asked your wife to remove the cap. :B


    I did ask. She said no. She then looked for some elbow high gloves and couldn't find any then came up with the idea for the trash bags.

    I did make her dump the bucket.
  • mich800's avatar
    mich800
    Explorer
    Jul 09, 2013
    Pauljdav wrote:
    I put a twist on valve there so I know I will not have anything "get" me when I remove the cap.

    Works great for blending the tanks if the grey is full,
    I also will empty the black, open the full shower tank and let a bunch of that go into the black, open the black again to help remove any yuckage that remains in there if I do not have time to use my tank rinser.


    I have on as well. Worst case you only need to worry about the very little liquid between the gate valve and the cap. Good backup if one of the primary valves leak or some joker pulls one.
  • Pauljdav's avatar
    Pauljdav
    Explorer
    Jul 09, 2013
    I put a twist on valve there so I know I will not have anything "get" me when I remove the cap.

    Works great for blending the tanks if the grey is full,
    I also will empty the black, open the full shower tank and let a bunch of that go into the black, open the black again to help remove any yuckage that remains in there if I do not have time to use my tank rinser.
  • bartlettj's avatar
    bartlettj
    Explorer
    Jul 09, 2013
    I replaced my flat cap with one that has a garden hose connection on it. Then I can loosen the garden hose cap while holding the sewer hose below it to catch anything that has made it past the main valves before popping off the whole cap. I've had stuff hang up in the black valve and keep it from completely closing before. It wasn't a big deal because I didn't get the brown fountain.
  • Wishbone51's avatar
    Wishbone51
    Explorer
    Jul 09, 2013
    Had that happen once.. The black valve wasn't open.. The only explanation that I can think of is that someone pulled the valve as a practical joke, then put it back. My valves are cable-operated, so it's a looong pipe and a lot of spillage. I have a bucket right there every time.
  • opnspaces's avatar
    opnspaces
    Navigator II
    Jul 09, 2013
    Good catch before you pulled the cap. And you're a braver man than me if you actually asked your wife to remove the cap. :B

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