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09-10-2015, 02:33 PM
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mikejm
Join Date: Sep 2014
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Black tank handle
The black tank handle is becoming very difficult to pull out and push back
in. Is there a fix? Or am I heading to the RV repairman?
Thanks for any help,
mikemj
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09-10-2015, 03:26 PM
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Who Dares, Wins
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Chester County, PA
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Silicone lube for the shaft and seals to loosen things up. They do need some care. Is it tough because of age or is the gate seeming to be bound up on "something."
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09-10-2015, 03:58 PM
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Senior Member
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I have heard that you can pour a bottle of veggie oil in the tank to coat the valve to lube it.....never tried it......
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09-10-2015, 07:32 PM
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Who Dares, Wins
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MMattox
I have heard that you can pour a bottle of veggie oil in the tank to coat the valve to lube it.....never tried it......
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I may be wrong but doesn't most tank treatments have seal lube in them as well?
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09-10-2015, 07:55 PM
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Senior Member
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The lubricating thing sounds like the way to go. I would make sure I was "hooked up"prior to opening and closing that honey wagon 
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09-10-2015, 08:00 PM
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Lubricateing the valves at every use with a non petroleum bassed lube will prevent this. Note that many silicone sprays have a mineral oil carrier that will swell and ruin the seals. Ive used "fluid film" on mine for the last 10 yrs or so ,it is lanolin, and Ive never, in nearly 50 years of doing this replaced a valve. Before "fluid film" I used "pam" or any other veggie oil cooking spray,but the fluid film rocks.And I do not sell it.
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09-10-2015, 08:16 PM
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09-10-2015, 08:35 PM
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Senior Member
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Quote:
Originally Posted by trbomax
Lubricateing the valves at every use with a non petroleum bassed lube will prevent this. Note that many silicone sprays have a mineral oil carrier that will swell and ruin the seals. Ive used "fluid film" on mine for the last 10 yrs or so ,it is lanolin, and Ive never, in nearly 50 years of doing this replaced a valve. Before "fluid film" I used "pam" or any other veggie oil cooking spray,but the fluid film rocks.And I do not sell it.
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Tell us about "pam" sounds interesting.
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09-10-2015, 08:37 PM
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Left Coast
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Have used cooking oil in commode....fixed leaking in to tank with valve closed....wouldn't hold water and valve was very clean
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09-10-2015, 08:41 PM
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Just do NOT get it on the toilet seat!
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09-10-2015, 08:47 PM
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Left Coast
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Like armor-all on steer'n wheel?
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09-10-2015, 08:59 PM
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Who Dares, Wins
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bob caldwell
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Yes! Or brake pedal... Or rear bench seat in your medic unit...
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09-10-2015, 09:38 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bob caldwell
Have used cooking oil in commode....fixed leaking in to tank with valve closed....wouldn't hold water and valve was very clean
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Would you like to expand on this?
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09-10-2015, 09:45 PM
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Left Coast
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mike.t
Would you like to expand on this?
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Why certainly......the cooking oil softens up the rubber slightly and like a lite grease, fills any voids temporally... need to let it sit for a day or two in bowl. Been hold'n water for 2 months now.
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09-10-2015, 09:47 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mike.t
Tell us about "pam" sounds interesting.
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Pam cooking spray,Youve never heard of that? you need to go to the grocery store more often!
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09-10-2015, 09:58 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by trbomax
Pam cooking spray,Youve never heard of that? you need to go to the grocery store more often!
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I know what "pam" is. You used it how did it work compared to the "fluid"
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09-10-2015, 10:01 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2011
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Can someone explain how you apply the spray? All I have is a handle at the end and it disappears behind my enclosed bottom...?
I have a blank tank oull they is really getting to be hard to push back (and pulling is a little difficult.
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09-10-2015, 10:09 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ependydad
Can someone explain how you apply the spray? All I have is a handle at the end and it disappears behind my enclosed bottom...?
I have a blank tank oull they is really getting to be hard to push back (and pulling is a little difficult.
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I had same problem. I had to pull the handle so hard I thought it would break. I tried spraying some lube into the cable but to no avail. When at Goshen, the fine folks at Cedar Creek replaced the cable (not the valve) and now it is a "two finger" pull/push.
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09-10-2015, 10:11 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mike.t
I know what "pam" is. You used it how did it work compared to the "fluid"
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Fluid Film is light years ahead of pam.I use it on hinges,locks,chain drives and sprockets,anything that moves . Its the only spray lube in my tool box (in the toy hauler).I guess the biggest thing is the little wand you can insert into the nozzel so it doesnt spray where you dont want it.
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09-10-2015, 10:18 PM
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Senior Member
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Location: Western AZ
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ependydad
Can someone explain how you apply the spray? All I have is a handle at the end and it disappears behind my enclosed bottom...?
I have a blank tank oull they is really getting to be hard to push back (and pulling is a little difficult.
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Make sure all of your tanks are empty. Open the valve (pull the handle) spray what ever you are using on the shaft and close and open several times. Repeat other tank valves.
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