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Date:         Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:58:47 -0700
Reply-To:     Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: An oddball fitting to fit a Westy
Comments: To: Edward Maglott <emaglott3@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <4dfe9e97.c337dc0a.20a1.2d40@mx.google.com>
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You're right Edward: the more dangly the bits, the better chance they will be knocked off.

To arrive at camp with an empty drinking water tank might be upsetting.

-- RJS

On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 21:12 -0400, Edward Maglott wrote:

> What pops to mind is that a permanent install would hang down and > possible get hit by something and break the tank outlet or the tank > itself. How about something that would fit the inside of that > drain? Like a rubber stopper you would jam up in there, which would > have a hose coming out of it and a shutoff on the end of that. If > that proves to not be secure enough, a bail or two that swings down > to hold the stopper up into the outlet would be good. You would have > to do a quicko-change-o at the campsite but you could catch what you > lost in your bucket to re-use it for washing up or whatever. > > If you need to fill a bucket in a hurry for a fire, just taking the > cap off and putting it back on when the bucket is almost full is not > as hard as it sounds. Not for me anyway. Try it. Another idea for > the shower would be to have a hose that snakes down the fill port > into the tank. > > Now that I think about it... I hear the drain cap is the same as the > washer bottle. Probably the same as the washer bottle on millions of > 80's VWs. you could get a couple to experiment with gluing a fitting > or valve to one of those > > Edward (full of ideas tonight.) > > At 08:41 PM 6/19/2011, you wrote: > >Say that a fellow was looking to replace the standard drinking water > >tank's drain plug with a fitting that provided a, say, male garden hose > >bib fitting along with a shutoff valve ... does such a thing exist? > > > >I ask because I was camping in the Oregon high desert this weekend and > >was thinking (A) about a quick way to fill a bucket with water from the > >Westy's drinking water tank in case of a campsite fire without dumping > >the whole tank of water (I live in an arid environment so I worry about > >every drop of spilled water); and (2) that the drain outlet on the water > >tank could be a useful place to tap into a reservoir for a campsite > >shower system. > > > >So to replace the Westy water tank's drain plug with a fitting that has > >a valve and some kind of standard hose fitting would be swell. > > > >-- RJS


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