Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

63°F and .72 inches rain. 5.08 inches for this storm sure have been welcome.

Sophie’s pool needs attention. I’ve taken advantage of the rain to get water level up, but the algae needs to go away. Anybody see the report of the Barbie pink pond on Maui? Very colorful.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[daugen]

killing time so I washed the rv. That was fun in 30 mph winds.
now to work on the driver's mirror that is coming loose again.
need to find the loctite first

 

[daugen]

loctite must be in garage...but I got the mirror bolts tightened, two were spinning loose. Other side has never loosened. Plus I mounted a pepper spray gun inside, shortest screws I could find, never know what is behind those thin walls. made another pot of coffee, not hot but still sticky outside.

the problem with the rv plumbing connection is the thread on the valve is not the thread on the plumbing fixture. I duplicated the exact problem trying to thread the fixture on a brand new valve. It immediately cross threaded. Unless repair guy has the right connector, this isn't going anywhere til I get home. It's like they used a machine thread instead of a water inlet thread.

 

[Buppies]

Sounds very frustrating Drew

Beautiful day here warm, alike from Bedford County fire completely covered up mountains and can smell today

 

[daugen]

well that was a waste of money.
guy comes out, very professional, fiddles around back behind the toilet, confirms the wrong fitting used, should be NPT but he could do nothing until toilet was pulled out.
I thought about this, and said no, I'll do this when I get home, since I need to carefully winterize it anyway. Turns out I had the right fitting in stock, for a pex hose, so all I have to do when I get home is pull the toilet and replace that water inlet line with enough new pex that I can hook it all up first, then install the toilet.

pretty sure they installed this toilet and then tried to hook up the water lines. And since they couldn't see what they were doing, when they tightened that connector firmly, they could not see it was doomed. Though even I can look at npt thread and see it's different than what I call garden hose thread, much finer pitch

after the tech's mumblings that this will take a couple of hours to get this out and in (@175)
basically it was do i want to spend 500 bucks on this?
no, not when I know how to fix it. Just can't do it on the road when
I really need that toilet to work.

so he handtightened the crossthreaded fixture once again, thankfully originally done with lots of teflon tape so at least some of that gummed up the misaligned threads. That original connection lasted up to Michigan and back, OBX and back and finally let loose on this trip.
out of sight, out of mind.
no more. Have pex tool, will fix.
maybe with some expert advice...

 

[Engineer42]

This is the one I used on my Dometic, Drew.

 

[Alan46]

Very interesting reading everyone’s posts! Thanks

 

[daugen]

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This is the one I used on my Dometic, Drew.

plus it has a built in quick turn valve
good idea
I will definitely incorporate at least one inline valve when I'm done.

 

[sodamo]

Morning all 25 going up to 65 and sunny, now that's a big spread in temp!

6 years at this job this week, feels like 20

Thank you for contributing to our SS. Your GM friends need it to keep up with our tractors and toys, I mean tools.

 

[sodamo]

Hard to believe sometimesI’m retired from Army 30 years plus. Did do parttime computer stuff after and then my time as Home inspector until moving here. Building the house was like a fulltime job, set 8 hour day schedule, but the pay was not great. More out flow than income.