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Sealing the corrugated drain hose
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#ane
I replaced the drain and strainer basket in our p'upward recently and couldn't get the seal on the corrugated stuff to stop leaking. The corrugated hose is merely pushed up over a barbed male adapter coming off of the elbow on lesser of the sink. There'due south a hose clamp that won't flatten the corrugations, and I'one thousand guessing the water is working its way around the spiral corrugations. It's simply a drip-drip-drip while the sink is draining.
I ended up slathering a bunch of plumber's putty in the corrugations, then assembling it and reaching down INTO the barb and filling the joint betwixt the pipage and the barb (on the inside) with more plumber's putty. Information technology finally quit leaking, but I have to wonder how professional person I was with my shade-tree solution.
What'due south the standard method to seal the corrugated flex bleed to (any) fitting?
#ii
This is just a estimate, but did y'all install ane 1/2" hose? Most of the camper drains are actually i i/4", an odd size if you ask me.
#3
I take no idea; it was the manufactory original corrugated hose that Fleetwood used in 2005.
#4
Did information technology have smooth spots every foot or so?
These are the merely spots that will seal. I had that type on my fresh water supply and it broke at the connection before I went on a trip and I had to endeavour and seal it also. Did not work very well, it dripped the unabridged trip. I finally had to get a different style hose that would seal the entire length.
#v
Nope, no flat spots (at least I didn't notice whatever, but I wasn't looking either).
#6
I must admit, I am out of guesses. the parts manual does show information technology equally a normal corrugated drain hose. Did your barb fitting get damaged when yous removed the old hose? I think information technology is a normal affront plumbing fixtures you lot could go at habitation depot to see if information technology solves the leak.
#7
We had the same issue with dripping only I adapted the bleed hose exterior and so it drains faster and also tightened the spiral and then hard it did flatten the corrugated part and problem solved so far! Took quite a chip of muscle and effort.
#8
I had the same problem with my fresh water fill hose going into the holding tank when I took it off to clean the insides of the tank. The original hose actually barbarous apart in my hands so it was a good thing to be doing the work on the tank.
I found an verbal match at one of my local RV shops. There were no flat sections as shown above. It leaked the first two times I tightened it down.
I finally got to the point of calculation pipe thread sealant between the hose and the tank's non-spinous connector, then tightening the clamp down pretty difficult. That did information technology.
Pipe thread sealant
#nine
wonder if yous could wrap the barb fitting with a tape or foam showtime then when yous tighten hose the foam would fill up the voids in the pipe. Some other idea would be to soap pipe dope into the groves of pipe first or maybe all of the above
#10
rick, that'southward pretty much what I concluded upward doing, simply I used plumber'southward putty. It wasn't classic, but it'due south but a drain line and carries no pressure, so it worked out OK. If it were a pressurized line, I could replace the hose entirely with something that fit.
I just wondered if there is a standard procedure that I needed to know. Looks like either 1) in that location is a process and NONE of us know about it or 2) I stumbled onto the procedure through adept fortune and/or positive ju-ju. Either way, it worked!
#11
You know, I would say the standard procedure would be to fill the threads with something. If a plumber doesn't fill the threads upwards with Teflon record or pipage dope than every fitting would leak so there yous go... I think you lot came up with the aforementioned solution about plumber would have
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