Camco 39601 10 ft RV Sewer Hose | HTS Black Vinyl

The Camco 39601 is the hose you reach for when you camp a few weekends a year and just need a dependable line from your RV to the dump station. It's a 10-foot HTS sewer hose in black, built from 12-mil vinyl with reinforcing wire wound through it, and it ships as the hose only. No fittings, no elbow, no bayonet adapters in the box. So if you're starting from scratch, plan on pairing it with the connectors your setup needs.

That 12-mil HTS vinyl is the part that matters. It's thick enough to shrug off the normal abuse of dragging a hose across gravel and concrete at a dump station, and the reinforcing wire keeps the hose round so waste actually flows instead of pooling in a kink. Camco builds this one with extra wire and vinyl, which is why it drains your gray and black tanks quickly instead of gurgling along. For the occasional camper, that's exactly the balance you want. Enough hose to reach, enough wall thickness to last a few seasons of light use.

Here's the trick that sells a lot of these: it compresses. The hose collapses from its full 10 feet down to about 14 inches, so it tucks neatly into a standard RV bumper for storage. You pull it out, stretch it to the length you need, dump, rinse, and squeeze it back down for the drive home. No wrestling a stiff, full-length hose into a too-small storage bay.

The hose measures 3 inches in diameter, which is the standard size for RV waste, so it plays nicely with the fittings and adapters you already own. It connects to both threaded and slip sewer fittings, so whether your setup uses a screw-on bayonet or a straight slip connection, this hose drops right in. Just remember it's the hose only. You'll supply the bayonet fitting on the RV end and whatever elbow or adapter your dump station needs on the other.

Setup is about as simple as it gets. Connect the RV end to your waste outlet with a bayonet fitting, run the hose to the dump station or your portable tote, and give it a little downhill slope so gravity does the work. Pull only as much length as you need. The compressed design means you can keep the run short and tidy instead of leaving 10 feet of slack coiled on the ground. When you're done, rinse, drain, and collapse it back down.

A word on getting the most life out of it. HTS vinyl is durable for its class, but any thin-wall sewer hose lasts longer if you treat it right. Rinse it thoroughly after every dump so nothing sits in the wall and hardens. Let it dry before you compress it back into the bumper. And don't store it stretched out in direct sun for weeks at a time, since UV is hard on vinyl over the long haul. Do that, and a hose like this will see you through plenty of trips.

Who's this for? Weekend and occasional RVers. Camco builds this one for infrequent outings, and that's the honest way to think about it. If you're a full-timer dumping every few days in freezing weather, you'll want a heavier-duty hose and a full kit. But if you head out a handful of times a season, keep the rig at a seasonal site, or just want a reliable spare stashed in the bumper as a backup, the 39601 earns its keep and doesn't cost much. It handles both gray water and black tank duty without complaint.

It's made in the USA with high-quality global materials, and it carries the full Camco warranty. For a lot of folks this is the second hose they buy, the one that lives permanently in the bumper so they're never caught without a way to dump. At this price, having a backup just makes sense. Stretch it, dump it, rinse it, stow it. That's the whole job, and the 39601 does it without drama.