Date:         Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:14:57 -0700
Reply-To:     Matthew Snook <matt@GREENBEARD.US>
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From:         Matthew Snook <matt@GREENBEARD.US>
Subject:      Re: Porta-potti boxes
Comments: To: Rob <becida@COMCAST.NET>
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Gary down in La Pine showed me one while we were camped in Fossil.  Pretty
cool, doubled as a bunk ladder, stool, PP-cover with pop-up TP holder...

Matt


-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Rob
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 1:12 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Porta-potti boxes

For the traveling we have been doing this summer I bought a
porta-potti for the bus. Well, I actually pulled out the porta-potti
I already had and one of the side clamps had broken off the body so I
needed a new one. The old one is one of those square jobs with
plastic accordion type water pump, clamps on the side to keep the top
& bottom together and the pull-push dumper valve (I saw them at
K-Mart and Sportsman Warehouse). The new one is a longer version from
Coleman with a hand pump for the water, the top/bottom attach by
twisting the top onto the bottom and the dumping lever goes side to side.
Anyway I have the toilet sitting in the Westy just behind the
passenger seat, it does the job but really looks like a toilet. I
need to put a box around it and that box requires a bit of
engineering as you have to be able to have free access to the whole
top for use and the lower front for opening the dump lever. As a plus
the toilet needs to be removed from that box everyday that it is used.

I'm thinking at someone (or two) on the Vanagon list has already done
this engineering and can point me in the correct direction or maybe
even point out some problems with this project.

Anyone with experience in building a toilet box for the Vanagon?



Rob
becida@comcast.net