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mike miller
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Location: Hillsboro, Oregon
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Dennis,
I am currently working on #2, the rear bath Birchaven. (23 foot)
Thanks for the pictures... I like the placement of your switch. But I think the later model generator compartments are a little "tighter" than the earlier, wooden, ones. So... no room for a switch there. I picked up a 70's GM car flip down license plate holder at the Pick-n-Pull so the switch will most likely end up under the plate.
I am wanting to be able to quickly pull a short (6 to 8 feet) hose (3/4 inch) for a quick dump, with the ability to go 10 to 12 feet more (16 to 20' total) without connecting extensions.
The problem is I have a rear bath Birchaven. (Granted the side bath Birch isn't much better... I get to do it 'next.') The area where your maceator is located is where my black tank is. The output is under the rearmost frame cross-member. Beside the black tank is the pipe from the gray tank. (Located where your black tank is, just smaller.) It is very tight back there. I had to put the maceator in the "Y" of the frame, almost under the Onan. (Right where the exhaust pipe is on the other side.)
I have some gray plastic conduit pipe, like yours. I have several long straight pieces and few 45 & 90 degree bends. (I can find uses for the left overs.) I am thinking two straights across the back, one above the frame and one below. (To hold my 10 to 12 foot.) Then wind some 45's, short straights and a 90 or two, around the current plumbing to hold my 'quick' 6 to 8 feet.
If I can do it and have it look OK... I'll keep it. If it looks to 'trashy,' I'll have to live with a 6 to 8 foot quick hose and have removable extensions. I can bolt some 3 inch plastic pipe under one of the rockers to hold sections of hose. (I am not sure of any "hollow rocker" that is large enough to hold 3/4 inch hose.) My 3 inch "slinky hose" is going under the "propane" compartment outside the frame rail. (The spot opposite the Onan. Not that it is a "propane compartment on either of my Birches!)
I am slow in my projects... it'll be a week or two before I get done.
Mike Miller -- Hillsboro, OR -- on the Black list
(#2)`78 23' Birchaven Rear Bath -- (#3)`77 23' Birchaven Side Bath
More Sidekicks than GMC's and a late model Malibu called 'Boo'
http://m000035.blogspot.com
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| Re: [GMCnet] Maceator hose, was: Height Level Valve [message #128125 is a reply to message #128123] |
Wed, 01 June 2011 00:14  |
sgltrac
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Mike, turn the front wheels to one side and look for the arrow shaped plug at the front of the rocker below the splash shield. Both of my end caps are out and when I shine a flashlight down it I can see nothing inside of it. I could fit at least two 3/4 inch 8' long garden hoses in that hollow extrusion, maybe even three depending upon the bulkiness of the couplers. Turn the wheels, pull the hose, dump the waste, and feed it back in At least that is how my 77 is constructed. I think if your rocker is the same it would be less work then trying to hang something off the rig
JWIT
Sully
77 royale
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Subject: [GMCnet] Maceator hose, was: Height Level Valve
Dennis S wrote on Tue, 31 May 2011 19:37
> mike miller wrote on Tue, 31 May 2011 21:24
> > ... (I just got my Maceator installed... now I need to figure out a discharge hose holder... or maybe I should be thinking "holster.")...
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> Which model and where is the discharge hose/how long?
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> Here is what I did on a 23 ft.
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> http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/showphoto.php?photo=38792&title=0019&cat=5767
Dennis,
I am currently working on #2, the rear bath Birchaven. (23 foot)
Thanks for the pictures... I like the placement of your switch. But I think the later model generator compartments are a little "tighter" than the earlier, wooden, ones. So... no room for a switch there. I picked up a 70's GM car flip down license plate holder at the Pick-n-Pull so the switch will most likely end up under the plate.
I am wanting to be able to quickly pull a short (6 to 8 feet) hose (3/4 inch) for a quick dump, with the ability to go 10 to 12 feet more (16 to 20' total) without connecting extensions.
The problem is I have a rear bath Birchaven. (Granted the side bath Birch isn't much better... I get to do it 'next.') The area where your maceator is located is where my black tank is. The output is under the rearmost frame cross-member. Beside the black tank is the pipe from the gray tank. (Located where your black tank is, just smaller.) It is very tight back there. I had to put the maceator in the "Y" of the frame, almost under the Onan. (Right where the exhaust pipe is on the other side.)
I have some gray plastic conduit pipe, like yours. I have several long straight pieces and few 45 & 90 degree bends. (I can find uses for the left overs.) I am thinking two straights across the back, one above the frame and one below. (To hold my 10 to 12 foot.) Then wind some 45's, short straights and a 90 or two, around the current plumbing to hold my 'quick' 6 to 8 feet.
If I can do it and have it look OK... I'll keep it. If it looks to 'trashy,' I'll have to live with a 6 to 8 foot quick hose and have removable extensions. I can bolt some 3 inch plastic pipe under one of the rockers to hold sections of hose. (I am not sure of any "hollow rocker" that is large enough to hold 3/4 inch hose.) My 3 inch "slinky hose" is going under the "propane" compartment outside the frame rail. (The spot opposite the Onan. Not that it is a "propane compartment on either of my Birches!)
I am slow in my projects... it'll be a week or two before I get done.
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Mike Miller -- Hillsboro, OR -- on the Black list
'73 26' exPainted D. -- `78 23' Birchaven Rear Bath -- `77 23' Birchaven Side Bath
http://m000035.blogspot.com
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| Re: [GMCnet] Maceator hose, was: Height Level Valve [message #128134 is a reply to message #128123] |
Wed, 01 June 2011 06:41 |
Ken Henderson
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Location: Americus, GA
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Mike,
I've had a flip-down tag for about 8 years now. It conceals not only
the macerator switch but two spring loaded toggle switches and a push
button.
Each of the toggle switches controls the corresponding side's EL-I
"Lower" solenoid. That enables me to lower the rear of the coach for
improved tank drainage.
After dumping, the pushbutton controls, through a relay, power to the
1-1/2 hp 120 vac compressor which feeds directly into both pair of air
bags. Full down to full up takes about 30 seconds -- IF I remember to
turn on the inverter; otherwise it's REAL slow. :-)
I stow about 15' of 1" hose in a 1-1/2" semi-rigid tube installed
through the crossmember holes along the left frame rail. While the
hose is attached with an agricultural quick disconnect so I can insert
an extension, I rarely use that feature. I say "insert" because the
storage tube won't accept a fitting on the end of the dump hose.
Sorry, I don't have photos of the control panel or storage
arrangement. Maybe when my back ache subsides. :-(
Ken H.
Americus, GA
'76 X-Birchaven w/Cad500/Howell EFI+ & EBL
www.gmcwipersetc.com
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Mike Miller <m000035@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dennis S wrote on Tue, 31 May 2011 19:37
>> mike miller wrote on Tue, 31 May 2011 21:24
>> > ... (I just got my Maceator installed... now I need to figure out a discharge hose holder... or maybe I should be thinking "holster.")...
>>
>>
>> Which model and where is the discharge hose/how long?
>>
>> Here is what I did on a 23 ft.
>>
>> http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/showphoto.php?photo=38792&title=0019&cat=5767
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> Dennis,
>
> I am currently working on #2, the rear bath Birchaven. (23 foot)
>
> Thanks for the pictures... I like the placement of your switch. But I think the later model generator compartments are a little "tighter" than the earlier, wooden, ones. So... no room for a switch there. I picked up a 70's GM car flip down license plate holder at the Pick-n-Pull so the switch will most likely end up under the plate.
>
> I am wanting to be able to quickly pull a short (6 to 8 feet) hose (3/4 inch) for a quick dump, with the ability to go 10 to 12 feet more (16 to 20' total) without connecting extensions.
>
> The problem is I have a rear bath Birchaven. (Granted the side bath Birch isn't much better... I get to do it 'next.') The area where your maceator is located is where my black tank is. The output is under the rearmost frame cross-member. Beside the black tank is the pipe from the gray tank. (Located where your black tank is, just smaller.) It is very tight back there. I had to put the maceator in the "Y" of the frame, almost under the Onan. (Right where the exhaust pipe is on the other side.)
>
> I have some gray plastic conduit pipe, like yours. I have several long straight pieces and few 45 & 90 degree bends. (I can find uses for the left overs.) I am thinking two straights across the back, one above the frame and one below. (To hold my 10 to 12 foot.) Then wind some 45's, short straights and a 90 or two, around the current plumbing to hold my 'quick' 6 to 8 feet.
>
> If I can do it and have it look OK... I'll keep it. If it looks to 'trashy,' I'll have to live with a 6 to 8 foot quick hose and have removable extensions. I can bolt some 3 inch plastic pipe under one of the rockers to hold sections of hose. (I am not sure of any "hollow rocker" that is large enough to hold 3/4 inch hose.) My 3 inch "slinky hose" is going under the "propane" compartment outside the frame rail. (The spot opposite the Onan. Not that it is a "propane compartment on either of my Birches!)
>
> I am slow in my projects... it'll be a week or two before I get done.
> --
> Mike Miller -- Hillsboro, OR -- on the Black list
> '73 26' exPainted D. -- `78 23' Birchaven Rear Bath -- `77 23' Birchaven Side Bath
> http://m000035.blogspot.com
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