Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 21:37:02 -0600
Reply-To: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: Port-a-potty and storage box prototype
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William we will be someone by to supervise your idle time.
There are a good half dozen manufacturers that make a sanitary portable
toilet that can be stowed in your Westy for emergency use.
I've seen Coleman units and several others that cost about $45 - $60 that
have a flush tank incorporated.
Oh! By the way. Congratulations for creating the box from hell.
Stan Wilder
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 18:07:25 -0800 developtrust <developtrust@COX.NET>
writes:
> I made a combo port-a-potty and storage box prototype today.
>
> We have all heard about thinking outdside the box. Today I was
> thinking
> outside the loaf about a box for inside the loaf (ie. vanagon.)
>
> I try not to throw anything away that might have value later.
>
> I've been planning to make a box to put between the driver and
> passenger
> seat to use with a pillow on top for another seat up front.
>
> Today in my shop I noticed a one foot wide piece of 3/8" plywood
> left over
> from another project. I decided to make my box. Measurements 14"
> long by 11
> & 3/4 inches wide so it would fit between the emergency brake and
> passenger
> seat easily and 12 inches high. I cut 4 corner braces to screw the
> plywood
> into and began assembly. I put a top and bottom on my box then cut a
> hand
> hole in the top.
>
> Then I remembered making a box in high school with a hinged top so I
> marked
> down 1 & 1/2 inches from the top all the way around and asked my
> neighbor if
> I could use his table saw. In a few minutes the top was cut off all
> around.
> Off to Home Depot to buy hinges and a draw catch. After cutting down
> the
> thickness of the hinges for a proper tight top fit in their location
> I
> assembled it all. The box fit perfectly and with a small pillow made
> a
> perfect extra seat between the driver and passenger seat up front.
>
> Then when putting my tools away I spotted an old toilet seat. I
> remembered
> seeing on the vanagon.com site somewhere that one of our list
> members used
> plastic bags inside a home made potty with a toilet seat placed on
> top a
> large bucket for camping in out of the way places.
>
> I thought that if I chopped the seat to fit inside the box and
> lowered the
> corner braces by the thickness of the toilet then this box could
> double as
> an emergency port-a-potty. Off I went to work on my prototype. I
> thought
> that some ingenuity and a few strong plastic bags and extra bag ties
> would
> provide some convenience when we could not stop at a motel or
> campground.
>
> If anyone is interested in seeing photos of my prototype combo
> storage box
> and port-a-potty I have posted photos on my temporary web page at:
> http://members.cox.net/holisticdream/temporary.htm
>
> All my special box needs now is some wood filler for all my mistakes
> and a
> coat of paint.
>
> William Polowniak
> 1989 Vanagon GL
> 1988 Mercedes 300 SE
>
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