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Default Underperforming toilet.

On Jun 23, 9:55�am, "Dan Listermann" wrote:
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On Jun 22, 9:08 am, "Dan Listermann" wrote:





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On Jun 19, 9:52 pm, "Dan Listermann" wrote:


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The toilet at our camp is not flushing properly.
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There is no real vent for the toilet,
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Bingo!


The "vent" was the problem. I found that I could turn the problem on and
off by opening a port that I use to drain the RV. It seems that the septic
system is fairly tight and the toilet needs to "burp" to form the siphon.