The fittings are on the same level (no uphill to worry about) and nicely spaced for a piece of hose to fill the gap with a couple of hose-clips and all will be "hunky dory"!!
The next step of course is to start fitting all the pressure plumbing.
Sich and I have decided to use "Hepworth" fittings which are a mechanical connect fitting with "O-rings" which can be disassembled if necessary but best of all the pipes are just cut with simple pipe shears and pushed into the joints and hand screwed up tight - no special tools required.
They are suitable for hot and cold water and being plastic are resistant to vibration, corrosion and don't require anything too sophisticated for assembly, and if you don't like it over there then just cut a new piece of pipe and move it over here.
Pump with non-return fitted and various fittings for branching to toilet, shower and sink.
If parked in a campground or near permanent plumbing a fitting is required to reduce the mains pressure to about 300kpa (45 psi) for the hot water system etc.. Even house hot water systems have a pressure reducing valve fitted as he last thing you want is scalding water squirting all over the place at high pressure if something springs a leak.
While working on customer work the other day I decided to attend to a little outstanding job that Sich and I have both been waiting for . . .
Our generators require the exhaust to be conducted away from the generator compartment but the existing exhaust outlet is not conducive to attaching anything like a hose to it.
Seeing the customer's work involved turning some stainless steel injection nozzles I was all set up for turning stainless steel and I "just happened to have" a couple of pieces the required size left over from a previous job, so a replacement was made like so ...
It turned out quite nicely actually and is a direct bolt on replacement for the original.
A bit of flexible exhaust pipe and a hose clamp and "we're in business" ....
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