Improving Grey waste pipe emptying

[merl]

or when people assume that their definition is the only valid one.

AHH, I see you've met my wife.

 

[YeoBlade]

Or maybe you start at the open end and go along the pipe.

Both are valid and the problem occurs when people use terminology without explaining it, or when people assume that their definition is the only valid one.

Ah, maybe , but which open end would you start at?

 

[gasgas]

What a stupid design.

Who thought it was a good idea to have the pipe rise on exit from the tank?

Autosleepers for one. All my Autosleepers had waste drains running uphill. Luckily I didn't need to use the wagon in the freezing winter. Not only the waste tank drain, but on Nuevos (or at least on mine) the water from the kitchen sink runs uphill - or doesn't run uphill if you live anywhere on the surface of the Earth. The sink waste on the rear kitchen versions runs across towards the cooker, up and over the vertical panel separating the cooker from the cupboards. Then owners wonder why the sink drains slowly. Not only that but they don't glue the plastic pipes together at the joints, so they drip gungy water all over the food you have stored in the cupboard underneath.

 

[barryd]

Well well well! Just resurrecting this thread as today I destroyed my grey waste water pipe.

At the service point this morning I did my usual speedy multi tasking thing filling water carriers, filling the vans tank, emptying the grey and the Thetford but then I clearly forgot to clamp back up the expanding grey hose and opening valve into the jubilee clip with the spazy chain round it. We only drove 12 miles to the next spot and I noticed it was dragging under the van when I got out to take the bike off. It would have survived I think but when we got here I did a load of shuffling about and I must have driven over it as I found all the bits on the ground in front of the van where we ended up.

So I've just sawn it off now and all I have left is some of expanding hose stuffed in the Jubilee clip and no valve. It wont just flow out though because as discussed earlier its clipped too high which if you remember was one of the problems of just being able to open the tap and let it flow. So in some ways the current design is a good thing as now its knackered with no valve it wont just leak out.

A winter project for you all! If not I might just leave it and stick another Cava Cork in it.

 

[Nesting Zombie]

There’s always something isn’t there Barryd

 

[barryd]

There’s always something isn’t there Barryd

Yep. Often self inflicted of course.

 

[barryd]

I am a genius! I have solved the grey water pipe problem myself by driving over it and destroying it. Now all I have left is the expandable pipe without the valve but because its clipped in higher than the tank it only starts to leak out once its very full. Not only that but because it doesn't dangle out the side with the heavy plastic extension and valve I don't think I need to wrap the crappy chain around it which is a right pain to undo. I just clip the end of the hose into the Jubilee clip and hope it stays there. On a 31 mile drive just now over crap roads in the Dordogne its stayed in position. The bonus is now when you just drop it the water gushes out at high speed. Before with the valve it took forever.

So the solution if anyone has the same problem, just drive over your own hose and valve and destroy it.

 

[runnach]

Ideal for the NC500

 

[Fazerloz]

I am a genius! I have solved the grey water pipe problem myself by driving over it and destroying it. Now all I have left is the expandable pipe without the valve but because its clipped in higher than the tank it only starts to leak out once its very full. Not only that but because it doesn't dangle out the side with the heavy plastic extension and valve I don't think I need to wrap the crappy chain around it which is a right pain to undo. I just clip the end of the hose into the Jubilee clip and hope it stays there. On a 31 mile drive just now over crap roads in the Dordogne its stayed in position. The bonus is now when you just drop it the water gushes out at high speed. Before with the valve it took forever.

So the solution if anyone has the same problem, just drive over your own hose and valve and destroy it.

A good solution people often overthink a problem.

 

[barryd]

A good solution people often overthink a problem.

Yes. I actually think it's even better than the Cava cork fix to secure the hose pipe when filling. I'll be like a Grand Prix team on a French service point now. I always was quick but these two improvements are game changing. Stuff the hose in, Cava cork inserted, kick the grey pipe out it's clip (no need bend down), empty the loo, reverse procedure. Sorted.

I can't wait to show those Frenchies how it's done as everyone knows they are only capable of doing one job at time whilst possibly stopping for lunch in-between.

 

[YeoBlade]

You're 'pit stop ' quick, it's the q you have to wait behind, there's always going to be one pedantic anal idiot who spends his life pratting around for 20 minutes and then get back in the van to set his sat nav before leaving the service point

 

[barryd]

You're 'pit stop ' quick, it's the q you have to wait behind, there's always going to be one pedantic anal idiot who spends his life pratting around for 20 minutes and then get back in the van to set his sat nav before leaving the service point

Yeah there is always that to be aware of. These new fangled Camping Crap Park Aires are the worse for that if you get a big one. Three French vans in the queue for one of them and you will be more worried about your Schengen 90 days running out than getting to the next stop.

Doing that British thing of trying to intimidate them by standing there staring at them with your arms folded and tutting doesn't work either. Totally oblivious.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

We had a tussle on one aire, this Pratt was cleaning his van out, not using the actual filling and emptying bit at all, just a knob, he spoke English a bit so I told him to move, he translated it to his wife who went off on one at me, so I just grinned at her, which seemed to go down well, she tore a strip off him when he attempted to get in the driving seat, So I just blocked them in.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Yeah there is always that to be aware of. These new fangled Camping Crap Park Aires are the worse for that if you get a big one. Three French vans in the queue for one of them and you will be more worried about your Schengen 90 days running out than getting to the next stop.

Doing that British thing of trying to intimidate them by standing there staring at them with your arms folded and tutting doesn't work either. Totally oblivious.

You're doing it wrong. I find that if you ask if they speak English, and find out they don't, it has a similar effect as them speaking French to me, not Bovvered either way, I was on the phone to Merlin when one tried to persuade me to move, didn't happen.

 

[barryd]

Should we start a thread on ingenious ways you have come up with to annoy or offend the French?

 

[Robmac]

Should we start a thread on ingenious ways you have come up with to annoy or offend the French?

 

[barryd]

Nice one. I just played that full chat sat outside E. Leclerc in Sarlat surrounded by French people

 

[Fazerloz]

You're doing it wrong. I find that if you ask if they speak English, and find out they don't, it has a similar effect as them speaking French to me, not Bovvered either way, I was on the phone to Merlin when one tried to persuade me to move, didn't happen.

Pass yourself off as a Aussie or New Zealander and suddenly they can talk a little English and are very helpful.

 

[TeamRienza]

I preface all communication with french and Spanish (using Spanish equivalent ) people with,

Bonjour, je suis in Irlandais. Je parle le Francis, mais tres mal.

Works wonders, shows you are trying, and that you are not English!

Davy

 

[alcam]

Should we start a thread on ingenious ways you have come up with to annoy or offend the French?

I wouldn't say being English could be described as 'ingenious'