LEAK UNDER TIOLET/LAV BLACK PIPE

[Montana_5823]

HI HAVE A 3400RL BRAND NEW HAVE A LEAK UNDER TIOLET THE BLACK PIPE AT THE TREADS HOPE THE DEALER WILL TAKE CARE OFF ANY ONE HAVE THIS PROBLEM. Click on the e-maii me icon to share about this.

THANK YOU

[richfaa]

These things are notorious for loose plumbing out of the factory.I assume it is the large black pipe..It is threaded and you should be able to reach in there and tighten it. Perhaps they forgot the plumbers putty. Suggest you check all your plumbing for tightness. Do not dispare the 3400 is a fine unit once you get all the little things they did not have time to do on the assembly line corrected.

[Montana_5823]

HI ALL DO I HAVE TO REMOVE THE TIOLET ETC AND REPLACE IT NEED HELP THANKS AGAIN SAM_BEA@YAHOO.COM

[Montana_5823]

HI ALL NEED HELP THE CAMP GROUND ON CAPE COD MA IS VERY WOODED SO WE CANT GET CABLE ETC WE YRIED DISH & DIRECT UP TEN FEET HIGH GOT NO SIGNAL CAN ANY ONE HELP OUT WITH LOTS OF TREES ANY SOLUTION THANKS SAM_BEA@YAHOO.COM

[richfaa]

If you are shooting through a lot of heavy trees you are not going to get a sat signal,,If you have 50 or 100 feet of extra RG-6 try to find a place were you can get a clear view of the southern sky..On your leaky toilet.I assume the leak is in the black pipe under the toilet in the door side compartment..If it as at the joint..tighten it and add plumbers putty or tape....

[Montana_1240]

Rich,

I sent Sam an e-mail about the dish getting a signal. Sometimes there is just no way. I keep two 75' lengths of RG-6 for my tripod-mounted dish, and it's enabled me to get a signal everywhere but one CG in Georgia. Plus, I doubt I'd be able to see through the trees at Hannah Park in Jacksonville Beach, Florida.

But I thought it was here that I saw the Align-A-Site gizmo. http://www.alignasite.com/ That'd be as cool as what the original DirecTV installer had with him when we bought the system. You can move all around until you see the clear sky, and plant your dish right there.

Trouble is, it's costly. $170 with dish mount, and $120 for handheld.

Meanwhile, I still have the silly satellite finder from CW that I just don't get use out of. So I doubt I'll invest in that, unless I start running into sites with tree problems a lot.

Heck. I may also get some pruning shears like the other guys have, and solve "tree problems" all together!


Steve

[richfaa]

Most folks do not realize how little it takes to block a sat signal..When they say "a clear view of the southeren sky" that's what they mean. When you get to a new area check the menu section of your sat provider..enter the local zip code and it will tell you azimuth and elevation..Those numbers change depending on where you are..Here at home we are 215 degrees on the compass and 37 degrees elevation..Since the Direct Tv sat is stationary in the southeren sky that number changes (a little trig here) as we travel South/ also as we move East/West the azimuth changes. We have always had good luck with a ole boy scout compass..If we know the asimuth and elevation and have a clear shot at the sky we can get a signal.. AND get the sat tripod Perfectly level. A tiny bit off bubble on this end is several miles at the other end... It' s like trying to hit a Ford Escort in Calif from Cleveland, Ohio. We carry several 25 foot lenghts of RG-6 with us.

[Montana_1240]

All I have to do to bring that truism home, (that satellite signals are easy to block,) is to be in a storm.

Even with a 98% signal strength, if a thunder-boomer rolls in around here, the signal goes flaky.

Say…What do you have against Ford Escorts?


Steve

[richfaa]

"Say…What do you have against Ford Escorts?" I did not know how to spell Volkswagen/ A larger dish will help with the signal loss during a TS..but not worth the $ or effort.We did take our dish off the roof and put them out it the back yard so we could get the ice/snow/slush off it in the winter time..heated dish to expensive.These things are line of sight so if there is something in the line of sight, like a tree or a bunch of limbs.Or once in my case I had a clear view of the southern sky except for a power line about 100 feet away that I was shooting directly into..what would those odds be??? The sat's are in a geosynchronous orbit(that was harder to spell that Volkswagen) 22,200 miles up so a smidgen off here would be miles on the other end and the sat is about the size of a volkswagen/Ford Escort.

[Montana_1240]

Rich,

If we had ever bought satellite TV in Alaska, we’d have had to use at least a one-meter dish. And it’d end up looking like it was pointed at the ground. If or when we do ever travel back up to Alaska, I can expect to start losing DirecTV when we hit lower to mid Canada. Unless I were to spend the money for a larger dish, I’m guessing.

Working with the state’s telecommunications folks for twenty years, I’ve seen some truly amazing efforts to clean dishes of ice and snow. Microwave dishes look like drums, covered with a white material. And even though they were pointing horizontally, those surfaces still attracted ice and snow. The poor service folks had to go by chopper to many a site, in lousy weather, of course, to clean them off after the dishes started to accumulate ice, causing errors. I think they despised the mechanical things that were designed to vibrate the snow off. Caused loads more trips!

With dishes pointed up a lot more at these southern latitudes, I can see how easy the stuff would accumulate on their surfaces.

Luckily, we’re staying south of the snow/slush line!

As for your thing about Escorts, instead of Volkswagens? Would you have used a Farfegnu-GUN to hit one, if you could have spelled Volkswagen?


Steve