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02-15-2016, 05:33 PM
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Rivet Master
2013 30' Classic
Greenwood
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I would probably not worry about it unless it stops the valve from operating.
Then, I would fish it out with a bent hanger.
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02-15-2016, 06:00 PM
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Rivet Master
2016 28' Flying Cloud
Brandenburg
, Kentucky
Join Date: May 2006
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Thinking the same thing
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Originally Posted by markdoane
Use your iPhone and a selfie stick down the hole to find it. What could go wrong?
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Just make sure it's one of those cheap Galaxy phones or find an old flip phone.
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02-15-2016, 07:26 PM
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Site Team
1964 26' Overlander
1964 19' Globetrotter
OlyPen
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Join Date: Aug 2003
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Quote:
Originally Posted by m.hony
I would probably not worry about it unless it stops the valve from operating.
Then, I would fish it out with a bent hanger.
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Alternatively you might try this scheme: http://www.airforums.com/forums/f48/...tml#post741626
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02-15-2016, 07:38 PM
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Rivet Master
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2022 Atlas
Homosassa
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I would flush and forget about it. If it clogs the valve, deal with it then with a bent coat hanger as someone already mentioned. I wouldn't go fishing on the black tank. It may flow out with toilet paper and crapola. Enjoy your camping and forget about it.
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02-15-2016, 07:50 PM
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Rivet Master
1974 Argosy 26
Morrill
, Nebraska
Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 6,014
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If you have any el's in the tank discharge line the odds are the fork won't pass thru.
I would remove the toilet. Just an obstacle in your way. I would bet the fork is directly below the opening. Unless you have moved the trailer.
One of the telescoping magnets from an auto parts store should work to retrieve the fork.
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02-15-2016, 08:18 PM
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Rivet Master
2007 16' International CCD
Vintage Kin Owner
Somewhere
, Colorado
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 1,575
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I cannot believe how very entertaining I find this thread. Never thought I could care so much about somebody else's fork!
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02-15-2016, 08:36 PM
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SipStreamer
2010 20' Flying Cloud
Lakeside
, Montana
Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 124
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Let this be a lesson. Don't bring utensils to POT-luck.
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02-15-2016, 08:42 PM
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Fraubear
1968 17' Caravel
Noblesville
, Indiana
Join Date: Dec 2007
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We had exactly the same thing happen. We tied a strong magnet to a string and dropped it into the black water tank. Unfortunately the fork wasn't near the magnet and it didn't work, so we tied the end of the string to a cabinet handle and left the magnet in the black water tank before we started the next day's drive. At the end of the drive the magnet and fork had found one another! It was funny then and it's still funny today.
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02-15-2016, 09:21 PM
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Rivet Master
2015 30' FB FC Bunk
Ayer
, Massachusetts
Join Date: Nov 2013
Posts: 1,114
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Get the fork out!
Now you have an odd fork/knife/spoon ratio, so better toss the spoon and knife in there too until you can figure out how to get the fork out.
Don't stress too much, google it, many have done the same, you'll figure it out and it will be part of your adventure.
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02-15-2016, 10:24 PM
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3 Rivet Member
2002 25' Classic
Kalama
, Washington
Join Date: Feb 2003
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I think you have a high efficiency black tank scrubber in there (at least until it passes )
By the time it is retired from service, it'll probably be a pickle fork. Like others have said, don't worry about it. Enjoy your AS confident in the realization that your agony provided mirth to some who have and the others who will do the same thing. Cheers!
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02-16-2016, 07:54 AM
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Rivet Master
2012 23' FB International
Woodstock
, Ontario
Join Date: Aug 2014
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Sorry Zstreamer; I don't wish the experience on anyone, but this has been one of the most entertaining threads I've read for a while!!!
Thanks for the fun...and I'll probably pay for this with a bad experience this coming summer
JCW
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02-16-2016, 09:39 AM
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Rivet Master
2007 23' Safari SE
San Diego
, California
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 1,495
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How Airforums' member Bert Gildart found and retrieved the fork (actually a spoon) down his toilet:
Fork down toilet bowl
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02-16-2016, 10:09 AM
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Rivet Master
2014 20' Flying Cloud
Sag Harbor
, New York
Join Date: Jun 2015
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Thanks for the further entertainment of that other thread, where Janet posted the following Ole joke:
"Ole goes out one day to use the outhouse, and he finds Sven there. Sven has his wallet out, and he's throwing money down into the hole of the outhouse. Ole asks, "Uff da! Sven, watcha doin' there, fella? You're throwing the five dollar bill and the ten dollar bill down into the hole of the outhouse! Whatcha doin' that for?" Sven answers, "Well, when I pulled up my trousers I dropped a nickel down there—and I'm not going down into that mess for just a nickel!" "
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02-16-2016, 02:27 PM
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Rivet Master
2013 25' Flying Cloud
Wheaton
, Illinois
Join Date: Aug 2014
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SeeMore
Just be glad it wasn't dentures
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Those you certainly would want to retrieve.
I had a friend who swallowed a gold crown. Boiled up a couple of stainless 1/4" nuts to sterilize and swallowed them to assist in the search and rescue operation. Saved himself $750 for a new crown. Gives the term "Potty Mouth" a whole new meaning
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02-17-2016, 07:05 AM
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Rivet Master
2006 23' Safari SE
Biloxi
, Mississippi
Join Date: Nov 2011
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Quote:
Originally Posted by greghoro
Those you certainly would want to retrieve.
I had a friend who swallowed a gold crown. Boiled up a couple of stainless 1/4" nuts to sterilize and swallowed them to assist in the search and rescue operation. Saved himself $750 for a new crown. Gives the term "Potty Mouth" a whole new meaning
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Somehow I think in the words of Jimmy Buffett, some of this is true and some of it is not.
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02-20-2016, 05:48 PM
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2 Rivet Member
1974 Argosy 26
Joshua Tree
, California
Join Date: Feb 2015
Posts: 37
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Subscribe to this one! Can you initially drain the tank and the run water through a hose through commode with the dump valve open until...well....satisfied?
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02-20-2016, 08:06 PM
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Rivet Master
2014 20' Flying Cloud
Sag Harbor
, New York
Join Date: Jun 2015
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Zstreamer
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I will also try to convince my wife to stick her arm in the dump valve and see if she feels anything. I'm sure if she somehow agrees to this, I am going to pay the price one way or the other. Actually that makes me more worried than anything......looks like I may be calling a plumber.
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The suspense is getting to me . . .
Any success?
[ Not to mention the possible double entendres for some of the terms above . . . ! ]
Thanks,
Peter
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02-20-2016, 09:45 PM
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Figment of My Imagination
2012 Interstate Coach
From All Over
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Quote:
Originally Posted by greghoro
I had a friend who swallowed a gold crown. Boiled up a couple of stainless 1/4" nuts to sterilize and swallowed them to assist in the search and rescue operation. Saved himself $750 for a new crown. Gives the term "Potty Mouth" a whole new meaning
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Standard Disclaimer applies: "Do not try this at home!" I really hope that wasn't a true story.
Hydrochloric acid (gastric jucies are about 1% hydrochloric acid) in any concentration will eventually dissolve steel, including stainless steel, but will not dissolve gold unless mixed with hydrogen peroxide. So if the stainless nuts didn't pass, they'd eventually dissolve and poison the swallower, while the gold crown would just sit there.
But swallowing any kind of metal by accident— and then doing it again on purpose— without going for x-rays to track their progress is a seriously bad idea. If something like that got stuck anywhere in the bowels, it's a recipe for a perforated ulcer and possibly a case of peritonitis, or worse.
If the story is true, your friend is very lucky indeed because his stunt could have cost him a lot more than $750 for a new crown; it could have cost him some very expensive surgery.
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02-23-2016, 12:42 AM
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1 Rivet Member
2016 27' International
Westlake Village
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Join Date: Dec 2015
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Wife gets on her hands and knees and prepares to stick her arm in the 3 inch hole where the tanks empty. She shines a flashlight into hole and screams. She hands me the flashlight and says "no way am I going in there". I say, "it's just your arm sweetie and you really just need to feel for a fork. No biggie." Well, I look in the hole and let's just say the last flushing of the tank didn't exactly clear out the passageway. After dry heaving, we then decided that the fork will just have to have a new home in our tank. Let's put a fork in this thread because I'm done!
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02-23-2016, 03:33 AM
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Rivet Master
2014 20' Flying Cloud
Sag Harbor
, New York
Join Date: Jun 2015
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Thanks for the candor!
Oh, for the freedom to comment freely about this further development in the tird world. Puns on the word "fork" are hard to pass . . .
Let me find a stool to rest on . . .
Coincidentally you may have learned one basic lesson that you should always have a full grey water tank ready to dump AFTER you empty the black water tank (if I have caught your drift correctly).
Hope you and your wife have recovered from the DH vapors.
Thanks for making my morning!
Peter
PS -- Another suggestion [which may not have pertained to your fork rescue effort] is that nothing solid should ever come out of the black water tank, so as to be identifiable as you-know-what. Recent road action should agitate the contents into a pulp which flows freely down the discharge pipe, to be flushed out with the next grey water dump. This prevents solid material getting stuck in the gate valve at the bottom of the black water tank, which might REQUIRE a manual removal from inside the discharge line. [ . . . not to mention the possibility of a couple of divorce attorneys! . . . ]
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