[VACList] water tank

["bill rogers" <billrogers@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Scott -

You know, there must be a reason Airstream abandoned the pressurized 
water tank. Certainly, the water pump approach is a lot more straight 
forward (and cheaper).

I'm going with a basic ShurFlo pump (2.8 gpm, $75.00) and HePex tubing 
for plumbing (3/8 inch ID), and just ordered a pre-fab, 25-gallon plastic 
tank ($110.00). It's rectangular, 34 inches long with a 13 x 13 inch cross 
section. It's the best fit in my stock mounting location (next to the wheel 
well and under the berth (couch), and accomodates the 4-inch heating 
ducts that run alongside for the center and rear vents. 

It's amazing how much more room there is under the berth with the old 
tank out! After installing the water heater and pump back there, I'll still 
have gobs o' room. I can either make it into storage, of add another tank 
if one 25 gal. ends up being too small.

By the way, I took out a 12-inch diameter steel tank that's nearly 6 feet 
long.   Does anyone know the volume of that tank? (Perhaps it was 30 
gallons.) Maybe a mathmatician in our ranks can do the calculation, and 
conversion from cu. feet to gallons.

Bill
'62 Trade Wind (on comeback trail)