As a weekend camper (currently), I empty my water tank after each outing. I drink water (and coffee water) that comes from from filling a special jug at home. I've brushed my teeth in the fresh water tank water. I haven't "expired" yet.. .AND, I'm an official Zombie Response Team member (have official medallion on camper and Popper is too! Here's his official patches for his vest:
@BrianZ, yes, you can run the Alde for cabin heat even if there is no water in the HW tank.
I think you might be onto something with the loose hex collar idea. It certainly can't hurt much at this point to try carefully snugging things up a little and crossing your fingers. Worst case you'll still be replacing something.
Like Verna, I have an older T@B without the mixing valve. I can't say I'm disappointed about that--while the water does come out of the Alde pretty darn hot, there is already a handy "mixing valve" located at each fixture. ;-)
If it were me I'd probably remove and bypass the valve altogether. However, the pretty darn hot I mentioned earlier can exceed 150F, so if you burn yourself you didn't get the idea from me! :-)
@ericnliz-@Twojgrams is right.... That would be the perfect set up! Now to figure out how to pull the WolfT@b behind THAT!!! You could be the official NuCamp "Cooker guy" and just travel from rally to rally!!!
@ericnliz Off to another topic in the interests of not going off topic on another thread: you’re going to need a bigger bbq soon for EMW rally, so I found this one for you! Maybe you can pass the hat to collect the asking price! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_kuYB-8fjok