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Jerry8mm


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I have spent the last day and a half installing a water filter under the kitchen sink in my class A RV. Never again. The instructions said it would take 30 minutes. I spent a little over 8 hours doing the work. Nothing about the water filter is compatible with the RV plumbing. To convert the pipe to fit I had to convert the pipe size in two steps. And of course, there's no room to work under the sink.

I should have installed a filter outside that just goes inline with the garden hose coming in. The reason I didn't was that I wanted to filter just the drinking water. I figured a little chlorine in the plumbing and in the holding tank might actually be good. I just didn't want to drink it and I didn't like the taste of the water at a lot of campgrounds. 

Anyway, after 8 hours of work and four trips to the hardware store (most projects only take three), I have a 0.5 micron filter for my drinking water installed under the kitchen sink. I may still install a 5 micron sediment filter outside, but that will just be a matter of connecting the incoming water pipe to it and connecting the short piece of garden hose that comes with it to the inlet water connection. 

I'm glad it's done, but there are a lot of other projects that I could have done in 8 hours that would probably have been more worthwhile. 

Jerry



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Sorry to hear of your troubles. Usually the one under the sink is small and for just the drinking water. Should have been a simple inline connection. Ours has one under the sink from factory. It's the small sealed unit about 2" diameter X 10-12" long, with a thread on each end. Pretty common and available all over the place. I installed a large "Whole House" filter in the outside water bay for when filling the tank.

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Ours is like TRAILERKING's and was installed by the manufacturer, it has its own spigot. We have a two canister system from RVWaterFilterStore.com, that hooks to the city water hose.



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The trick is to remove the Cowboy hat before working under the sink!

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Cummins12V98 wrote:

The trick is to remove the Cowboy hat before working under the sink!

 biggrinbiggrinHahahaha......................That's a gooder.



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Jerry8mm


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Removing the cowboy hat might have solved the problem. 

A quick update on the project. I now have it installed and all leaks stopped. I did end up making six trips to the hardware store. My final two trips was to Loews. I was able to get the proper fittings there which would have made the project so much easier it I had had these to start with.

Now that everything is working and I'm not so tired and frustrated, maybe I should delete my first recommendation because I do like my 0.5 micro filter for my drinking water. It did reduce the flow of the cold water, but no big deal.

I'm now back to being a happy camper. 

Jerry Minchey



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Jerry8mm wrote:

... I did end up making six trips to the hardware store. My final two trips was to Loews. 

 ...and they say men hate to go shopping... hardware store... Arr Arr, Arr arr Arrrr! biggrin

Brian



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