Bill Halberstadt
'--- In Safarifriends@yahoogroups.com, David Coy wrote:
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> Why not run the overflow line over to the fill area and add a valve at the end,mark it open while filling and close when full.You have to open and close the fill valve,this eill remind you to open and close the vent valve especially when it comes squirting out when full! put a screw in the hole with some silicone on it and no more slosh and no more siphon. Dave in Hillsboro ohio 2000 Panther 425Â (for sale) 937 763 0164
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> --- On Sun, 11/20/11, stuplich@... wrote:
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> Subject: [Safarifriends] Re: Water Tank Overflow atten: you engineers
> To: Safarifriends@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, November 20, 2011, 11:03 AM
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> Jim
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> Mine did not originally have the 1/2" pipe but it did have the 1/8" hole, and ALL the slosh ended up in the bay carpet.
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> I thought perhaps a small check valve ,(like those used in home furnace/air cond), in that line might did the trick, (Air could come in but the water could not go out).
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> That would however require an overflow , (like mine in the water bay), which would HAVE to be opened when filling to prevent pressurizing the tank, (one more thing to remember).
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> What do you think?
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> Mel
> '96 3530 Sahara
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> --- In Safarifriends@yahoogroups.com, "jimlyndabrooks" wrote:
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> > Mel, I bought mine used, 6 years ago, the brass fitting on the top left corner of the fresh water tank had a hole, about 1/8" drilled in the top of it.
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> > When I filled the tank, the water would come out both the 1/8" hole and out the 1/2" pipe that runs down the front bulkhead of the storage compartment to under it.
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> > Since the tank can get air thru the overflow pipe, I sealed the 1/8" hole, thus fixing my wet compartment problem when I filled the tank. Now all the overflow water is directed to under the coach.
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> > That same overflow pipe is where the water slosh comes out.
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> > Trying to figure out a stupid proof way to stop the water loss when stopping, but retain the overflow/venting as required by the tank.
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> > I blew the top out of a tank once, and was much younger then, so there is no way I am going to remember to do a valve thing 100% of the time. With a vertical loop filled with water, I am wondering if it would be enough to prevent slosh, but not over pressurize the tank when filled? Thinking the weight of the water would be enough to contain the force of the slosh.
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> > The U shaped piping would have a venting hole (1/8-3/16") both at the top of the loop and one in the bottom to allow the loop to drain and not hold water causing a air lock like a P-trap does. Yes you would loose water out of the loop drain holes, but that would be much less than the loss now.
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> > So, not knowing the psi the fresh water tank can take, not knowing for psi force of sloshed water, not knowing the weight of a column of water a couple feet tall in a 1/2" pipe, or the psi required to displace it, guess it is tinker time.
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> > Jim
> > '96 Sahara 3540
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so I will not be able to do "THE GREAT CHECK VALVE IN THE WATER TANK OVERFLOW TO STOP THE SIPHON AND LET IN AIR EXPERIMENT", 
until after we go south (some time after Dec 12th}. 