Re: My Mods: Permanent Gate Valve added at Sewer Outlet
I get what you're saying now:
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I hadn't noticed this rise, though I do see it in the picture. In practice, I've never encountered an issue with this but I do see your point.
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I found a picture of my own Waster Master hose and Flow Down product. I can see the small rises
Never noticed it before.
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The "hills" on my hose/tray combo are a bit more pronounced then what is shown in the pictures. The hose clearly does not fit
in the U-shaped connector pieces, rather the hose lays across the upper edges. The display stuff at the Lippert booth was the same way. But, I did see one hose that did fit properly, Chris W with the maroon Cyclone has one of the newer Rhino hoses and it fit well.
With the joys of waste management and the principal of **** does not flow uphill, and for the cost of the item, I would have hoped for "smoother sailing".
Now, since you posted a picture of your tray with the yellow blocks, that brings up several other concerns.
Keeping in mind that this is a product that retails for $90 and is not much more then a 10' piece of ABS pipe cut in half and sectioned at 30" with some connectors (engineering and production startup costs aside). I use the same yellow blocks, although most of mine are cut in half. At the NE rally I used probably 2 dozen pieces to supplement the rods to get the slope needed.
a) The elevation rods are not long enough. I have to use the same yellow blocks to be able to use the tray effectively. Perhaps half the rods included should be 6" longer.
b) You mentioned above that at times you wish you had another Flow Down kit. I did buy two kits at Goshen. The connectors included offer no way to join two kits together. The kits are arranged with the required number of double ended connectors and two single "end" pieces.
c) If you set up the tray to go around obstructions,
such as in this video, you end up one connector short. BTW, in this video the hose fit much better then the stuff they had at the booth.
d) The connectors are designed so that after slipping one section in to the stops, inserting the next section in will tend to undo the first section.
The concept is good, the cost a bit high, setup takes a bit longer, but I will give it a few more go arounds.
I did keep my old hose support, and it is ready to go back into storage under the trailer.
I had been using the Blueline support with the yellow blocks. You are able to use half of a second Blueline kit, sliding the "inner" piece into the opposite end of an already assembled "inner/outer" tray to get a pretty good length of support (5' to 12-14'), but it has to be in a straight line.
http://www.campingworld.com/shopping/item/blueline-hose-support-protector/18352
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For what it's worth, Lippert didn't design this product - they recently purchased the product as I understand it. Perhaps they'll re-engineer it at some point.
Yes I know, and I did bring up my concerns. And as expected it mostly fell on deaf ears. But, I did manage to wrangle out an additional connector so that I can actually join two full length kits together.
