I did tank maintenance today on the black tank of the RV. This isn’t a fun, pretty or pleasant smelling chore and not for the faint of heart but if you own an RV you don’t have much of a choice. It didn’t feel that the black tank was emptying completely and it seemed to fill quickly. So just the design of an RV system means you are not dislodging anything from underneath, that would lead to a special type of hell I just can’t imagine, or maybe I just don’t want to.

So after draining it and running the ‘sprayer’ it still didn’t look like it was completely empty. So I filled it with water by wedging open the pedal on the toilet and spraying the shower hose in it. Loaded it up to full and then pulled the plug and you could tell it cleared. with the extra water it drained really well and all the way to empty on the readout. So far so good.

Did that again and then did a visual inspection with the camera. So it seems that it drained properly but there was still solid matter on the side away from the drain. I think that may just be the nature of the game. Refilled and drained with the sprayer on but didn’t reinspect. I did add a bit of water and two biopacks to try to see if that will get rid of it with the rest of our stay here. Other tanks are fine and everything is holding up properly.

Got a chance to walk up to the cemetery down the road. It’s super old, there was a veteran who actually fought in the revolutionary war. Amazing to think that those graves have been here since the beginning of the country. I also walked by and through the Mansfield East Common’s. Nothing much but it did have the WW2 memorial of those lost from the area, I was struck by the same last names, it looks like several families lost multiple sons. Kind of makes you think.