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Old 12-22-2016, 05:05 PM   #1
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water hose and quick disconnect?

I have 2x 10' cheap Walmart water hoses for the main water hookup. These things are horrible to unwind and connect (especially in the cold) and the threaded ends seem to collapse easily when connecting into the water filter or brass 90 degree elbow in the wet bay - and they start leaking when parked. I may be over tightening them and causing this but they seem to leak after only a few uses.
SO....does anyone recommend a good type of flexible hose that will lay down OR hoses that use air hose type quick disconnects? I'd rather have a few tight-fitting brass water connections on each end and then just snap together the water hose than have to replace the entire hose when it starts leaking.
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Old 12-22-2016, 05:16 PM   #2
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Check out eBay and Amazon, they have what you want. There will be some CAMCO products show up in Amazon so you will be buying the name also.

The white/blue stripe from WalMart has worked for me, even with the water filter. I only hand tighten and change rubber gaskets when hand tightening won't do it.
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Old 12-22-2016, 05:19 PM   #3
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Lowes sells water hose quick-connects. I have them on all of my water hoses, and the various nozzles I use. (4 hoses total: 2 x 25' drinking water hoses... a 50' utility hose for washing the motorcycle, truck, rig, whatever... and another 25' heated water hose for winter use.)

I have the male ends on my city water intake port, and my black tank Sani-Wash port. Makes connecting the hose very easy. Very handy.

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Old 12-22-2016, 11:52 PM   #4
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Cool. Jut picked a few up at HD. Good ones. Not the cheap plastic type!
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Old 12-25-2016, 02:50 AM   #5
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Well dang...logged in. Got the pics uploaded to Photobucket, had dinner, watched the news, came back, typed in my response, hit Post Quick Reply. Crap, the forum had logged me out, and I lost the whole thing. So here we go again!!

I got the same brass quick disconnects at the Big R Store.

I use a Valterra Sewer Solution to manage draining my black and grey water. Accordingly, it requires a hose of its own connected to the aspirating nozzle. So my manifold has one inlet hose from the RV Park faucet, and three outgoing hoses. One to the Sewer Solution, one to the City Water connection and one to the Black Water Rinse connection. I use a brass cap on the other outgoing connection. Here's a pic of my manifold set up:


The three outgoing hoses are 6 ft long. This way I don't have rolled up hoses everywhere under the wet cabinet. Just a nice neat manifold.
I use a Valterra "Twist On" valve at each of the drain connections. For $23 from Amazon, just a way to make sure I don't have any leakage while I'm getting things hooked up. Oh, and I've also replaced all the drain valves with Valterra Electric Valves. I've posted those projects here.


Lastly, I use three of the brass 90 degree connectors so that my hoses just come up through the bottom of the wet cabinet and connect to the brass elbows.

Don't laugh at my faucet...first trip out in 2016, to Arizona in Feb, spent the first night at the KOA in Bernalillo, NM. Hooked up to water and found the quick disconnect faucet had frozen and split. So off to Home Depot and for $7.99 had a faucet of the correct size, installed and back in business. Didn't get around to getting the correct faucet until winterizing in October 2016. Learned that blowing down the quick disconnect is an important part of winterizing.


And at the RV Park hydrant we use a water filter and pressure regulator.

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Old 01-17-2017, 10:07 AM   #6
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Nice set up,thanks.
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