Plumbing filler thingy

Every one of the posts in this section of the forum have been useful to us as new owners. We are especially interesting in custom storage additions, like the storage bin dividers, spice holder, knife holder and the paper towel holders.

To encourage more posts of storage options I offer the only custom addition we have made to our 550 so far, a plumbing filler thingy. I have yet to hear of anyone mentioning this useful addition but surely everyone has one?

Please, more storage ideas....

 

Ummmmm -more details as how this is used. i think I'm missing somthing.

My storage dividers are currently being varnished, so should have photos soon. They just a variation of what has been shown so far. I did finally find the c (or u) channel.

Isn't it great seeing everyones ideas! Even those that don't work for us, give me inspiration to fine tune our trailer.

Eileen

 

We don't have one. Please tell us more...

 

It is a neat idea. It is used at the shop to fill the water tank for testing. When testing several tanks at a time, it is much quicker than just using the hose in the pitcher fill. The trade-off is the time it takes to assemble/disassemble, which is why it may not necessarily be quicker than just using the hose. It all comes down to what you are comfortable with.

I suggest taking a collapsible 5 gallon water container with you. That way, when you are camping at a site without a water hookup(which is fairly common) & need to add water to the tank (which is also fairly common), you have a way to carry it & fill the tank.

 

Yes, we call it the water bazooka. The one in the Ken's picture is the one from our shop that we use to fill the trailers on the line. Looks like Craig and I were showing it off to Ken, hand model I clearly am not.

With the bazooka hooked up we fill the tank in 1 minute flat. But, like Betsey pointed out you have to unhook the chain on the water fill cap and such to do it. Takes practice to do it quickly.

I like Don's valve addition. That's top notch work there.

Cary

 

We only found out about this gadget during Cary's "Tour de Trailer" when we picked up our #357. He was demonstrating the new water tank level and battery status monitor. "See, push this button and you can see that the battery is full, then push this to see the gray water tank is empty, then press this button to see that your fresh water tank is fu... uh, empty." At that point a call went out for reinforcements and someone jumped into action, brought over the hose and the "water bazooka" and filled the tank posthaste.

It took 20 minutes in the plumbing aisle of our local hardware store to find exactly the right valve (who knew there were that many kinds?) and another 15 minutes to glue and screw the parts together and screw on the quick release. Works great. I am still looking for the o-ring you see at the right end of the one in Ken's picture which I think is a necessary component.

Eileen, looking forward to photos. I'm starting to work on my dividers and am curious to see how others are arranging them and what they put down there.

Betsey, just put that collapsible water container on the shopping list. Good idea.