Pictures of my holding tank flusher

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Ok, it's done and it is very cool. I installed a Camco Torando flusher with a deck fitting. Here is what I did.

Take the Camco Torando flush model 40128

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NOW, you could screw the flange straight to the tank, but the holes and the flange might crack your tank. What you need is a good renforcment. So buy this kit, Dometic #307348685.

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You have to grind off the "bumps" on the bottom of the plug with a Dremel tool or something similar. Then drill a hole in it and install the Tornado flush on the plug. That way if the flusher breaks, it is easy to screw the plug out and replace it. The finished installation looks like this. (Note you also have a very nice sized "access port" in your tank now.)
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Next get an ITT Jabsco deck fitting for deck washdown. The unit looks like this.

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Remove the check valve from the "plug" (the black plastic male fitting). It comes out real easy, practically falls out in reality. This is because you are going to make the water go the other way. The deck fitting (the metal part has a check valve in it so no odor will escape)

Install the deck fitting:

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Go to a hardware store get a "male-to-male" garden hose connector an attach it to the insert fitting. Then connect up a hose and flush the "shiite" right out of your tank as you empty it.

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Here it is with the hose attached. Note I mounted it close to the pump out fitting.

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I have tried the unit out and it works great! The toughest part of installation is drilling the big hole in your tank for the Dometic access port (and smelly too). Get a hole saw of the proper size. Do not try to free hand a circle because you will create stress point in the plastic if you do not create a good quality round hole.
 
Hey Gee, you said that when you're drilling the hole in the tank, that it's smelly - what are you putting into it? All the tanks I've ever worked on smelled like vanilla ice cream!!! [:-bonc01][:-bonc01][:-bonc01]

(Every now and then, if I'm in an onery mood, when somebody calls me on the phone - and they sound like they aren't particularly bright - complaining that their holding tank stinks, I ask them, "Well what about what you're putting into it - does that stink...?" I usually get about a full minute of dead silence... ) [}}:-|>>][}}:-|>>]

Anyway, your job looks real good - keep us apprised on how well it works.
 
GEE: looks like a very neat job but dont you have a code problem with that hookup?????
 
No, because there is a check valve in the deck fitting. But the reality is there is supposed a check valve on the hose at the pump out stations as well as a sign saying "Non-potable".
 
I bought a Tornado and intend to install it in the spring. What a great set up!
 
It needs an antisiphon valve rather than a check valve IMO
 
pdecat, Les Hall can fix you up with a secret decoder ring through BoatFix - that should solve any code problems that may arise! [:-hspin]
 
Wait a darn minute. I am a full paid up member with a well polished anchor. I figured that Les didnt send me the ring because I still mention bringing Joel back whenever Les gets grumpy but I have been behaving for some time now so where is my decoder ring??? I did get the official NBR electromagnetic field shielding hat but no ring. :(
 
Les only sends out one per year, and GeeBee has already gotten this year's allocation. Maybe GeeBee can lend you his, should you run into a code problem. [:-alien]
 
This reminds me of the time the pump-out attendant at our marina filled our holding tank with water during a pump-out - pushing that hose in as far as it would go to loosen the tank sludge.

meanwhile, I went up to the dockmaster's shed to pay my fuel bill and upon returning, witnessed a transient boater using the very same hose to fill his H2O tank - without the clueless dock attendant warning him.
 
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Metal note to self: CHECK HOSE for "stuff"

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Originally posted by TrueBlue

meanwhile, I went up to the dockmaster's shed to pay my fuel bill and upon returning, witnessed a transient boater using the very same hose to fill his H2O tank - without the clueless dock attendant warning him.

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this is why I travel with and use one of these filters on any hose that runs water into my tank
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Uggghhh [:-yuck] [:-yuck], I think I'd drown [xx(] [xx(] that dock attendant if I ever found that out! [:-irked] [:-irked] Not only is it nasty, it could spread disease!

That reminds me of the old stories about busboys spitting (and other things) [:-yuck] [:-yuck] into the food in a restaurant's kitchen, before it is served.

There are stories floating around the internet about potential gas thieves, sticking a rubber hose down the deck pumpout fitting for the holding tank, then sucking on it to try and siphon the gasoline out - SURPRISE !!!
 
Who the hell has the dumb brains to use a hose anywhere near a pumpout station. Folks, no amount of engineering can prevent stupidity. And for the record pdecat, there is an anti-siphon valve integral to the Tornado flusher.
 
GeeBee,

I just saw the install. We have photobucket and the like blocked by WebSense. Very nice job. Is the spray pattern random so you can clean the whole tank?
 
Cool. Just bought one. Just gotta get my dealer to install it for me...

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You should NEVER use any hose anywhere near a pumpout to put fresh water in your tank. That is, unless you like getting e-coli!
 
G--, I love this stuff. I get an education and enough entertainment to make me talk back to my PC; which, of course, confirms my wife's suspicions. Thank you. I think I'm going to make it through the winter. Jim S. in Naples, FL
 
I used to use the hose at th epump out station until I witnessed some similar stupidity. We are on a freshwater lake and we now fill our tank right out of the lake and add a cup of bleach. We don't drink it and I flush and sanitze the tanks a couple of times per year. Last year I added a basic cabon cartidge water filter and the water smells as fresh as any that I have smelled on a boat. It's the the ideal set up but beats the ecoli shower other boaters enjoy.
 
Nice install could you tell me where to purchase the torando flusher #40128 thanks
 
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