Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

by **mallett** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:26 pm

Made this grid out of 2" PVC pipe. It 51" by 24" which gives me about 25'. I found a program that figures the volume of pipe and it comes to 4.7 gals. I am planning on installing it under my teardrop between the 2" tubing. I have the inlet and outlet but will have to vent it.
Here is a link to the neat program for figuring the volume of pipe.

pages.prodigy.net/rich_demartile/files/pipe-vol.xls

by **Classic Finn** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:49 pm

Now thats impressive... :thumbsup:

As is your tear.. very nice.

Classic Finn

by **Miriam C.** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:14 am

Thanks for sharing the water tank with us. Really neat!

by **prohandyman** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:21 pm

Iv'e been thinking about a similar system. By greywater, I suppose you mean sink waste water. If so, most sink water has food particles in it, so wont they possibly clog those small outlet connectors? Your design is very cool, but if you tee into it with say 1" and run a drain line out to the side of your tear, you could install a shut-off and drain wastewater into campground greywater disposal drains. Just thinking out loud! :thinking:

by **mallett** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:24 pm

Dan,

You make a good point. I think I'll make the drain outlet bigger. I plan to run a clear vinyl line out to the left back corner and attach a plastic hose cut off value. If it gets stopped up there I can just take it off and clean it out.

Thanks for the input

Mallett

by **bobhenry** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:35 pm

mallett wrote:Made this grid out of 2" PVC pipe. It 51" by 24" which gives me about 25'. I found a program that figures the volume of pipe and it comes to 4.7 gals. I am planning on installing it under my teardrop between the 2" tubing. I have the inlet and outlet but will have to vent it.
Here is a link to the neat program for figuring the volume of pipe.

pages.prodigy.net/rich_demartile/files/pipe-vol.xls

Make a hell of a roof rack and you could gravity feed the water too.....

by **mallett** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 7:06 pm

I installed the greywater grid under the tear. here are some pics.

by **prohandyman** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 7:47 pm

Great job! :thumbsup:

Thats what I want for Christmas! Wait...I will have to make it first! Thanks for sharing!

by **mallett** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:40 pm

Thanks Dan for your idea of making the outlet 1". I also made the inlet 1".

That's what is great about this forum. People sharing their ideas and then others improving on them.

Mallett

by **Esteban** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:43 pm

You've come up with an innovative solution to use the empty space under the frame for a gray water tank.

Do you have a fresh water tank too or is your fresh water supplied by a hose connection from the outside?

If you can please label the water hoses/drains/vents in your under counter picture to let us know what each of them are for? :thinking:

Seems to be reasonable that, as an alternative, we could make a similar space saving under frame fresh water tank. :thinking:

by **mallett** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:49 pm

Steve,

I do not have a fresh water tank but I can take a water container and use my Colman hot water if I'm ruffing it to pump water to the sink.

Mallett

by **Alphacarina** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:43 pm

mallett wrote:Made this grid out of 2" PVC pipe. It 51" by 24" which gives me about 25'. I found a program that figures the volume of pipe and it comes to 4.7 gals. I am planning on installing it under my teardrop between the 2" tubing. I have the inlet and outlet but will have to vent it.
Here is a link to the neat program for figuring the volume of pipe.

pages.prodigy.net/rich_demartile/files/pipe-vol.xls

Since there's no pressure on your 'tank' you could have cut half or three quarters of an inch off of each side of your Tees and Elbows and you would have had room to add a sixth cross pipe to your 'tank' - That would have given you about another three quarters of a gallon of storage capacity

Don

by **mallett** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:04 pm

Don,

I thought about that but decided that 4.7 gals. would be sufficient. Thanks for the input.

Mallett

by **prohandyman** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:18 pm

Seems to be reasonable that, as an alternative, we could make a similar space saving under frame fresh water tank.

This is the link to the water tank Madjack did
http://www.tnttt.com/viewtopic.php?t=7415&highlight=pvc+water+tank+madjack

by **cuyeda** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:23 pm

Mallet,
Great possibilities with your grey water tank. Congratulations! Here are a couple of MadJack's photos, to add to the think tank. Aside from ordering custom tanks to fit, the alternative less expensive alternative would be appealing. I haven't made anythiing yet, but would be great if others can improve on any of the ideas here.

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