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Date:         Wed, 21 Aug 2013 23:09:46 -0700
Reply-To:     Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@Q.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@Q.COM>
Subject:      Re: Filling water tank when no hose is available (GoWesty
              connector)
Comments: To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <5213F93C.6080506@gmail.com>
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Use the Westy tank for personal hygiene and bring a couple or five gallon jugs of spring water from Safeway/home.

Karl Wolz

|-----Original Message----- |From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] |On Behalf Of Rocket J Squirrel |Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 4:18 PM |To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM |Subject: Re: Filling water tank when no hose is available |(GoWesty connector) | |On 08/17/2013 09:19 AM, mcneely4@cox.net wrote: |> All sounds good, Mr. Squirrel. When I am at a suitable water source |> such as your river, I just use a bucket. Pump is more eloquent, I |> suppose, but also requires more stuff and more doing. | |Aye, that it does. But the particular bank I plan to camp on |on this particular river is quite steep and the water hits |waist-deep about 6'' |from the "shore." Current's strong, too. There isn't a place |to stand and dip water. Would need to immerse myself, then |somehow haul myself and the bucket up the steep bank. Then do |it a few more times. Thus the pump and hose I will toss in the water. | |The pump and its hose are heavier than water. They would sink |to the bottom and pump up silt if I just tossed them in. So |I'll use a float to keep the pump up off the bottom. The pump |will dangle on 2' of hose below the float. An anchor (a mesh |bag of rocks, really) will keep the pump and float from |drifting downstream. | |I think I've designed this to work. And possibly win an award |for most complicated way to go about doing anything, ever. | |> BTW, what water treatment do you use? If I am going to use |the water |> without boiling, I use chlorine bleach. | |I'm going back and forth between chlorine bleach and iodine. |Both effective, both cheap, both e-z-2-do, but both taste |crummy. There are other methods but they are not inexpensive |or don't easily handle larger volumes of water like in the |Westy fresh water tank. | |-- |Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott |1984 Westfalia, auto trans, |Bend, Ore.


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