Now I've seen everything!
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nature calls at sometimes inopportune times
Now Peggie, you just never know when you are going to have to go! Great if you have an SUV or mini van..the rest of us poor slobs will have to rely on rest stops and gas stations *cry
Peggie, while I have you here...I am new to the world of porta potties. What is the best stuff to put in the holding tank..I have a Sealand. Joanie
Now Peggie, you just never know when you are going to have to go! Great if you have an SUV or mini van..the rest of us poor slobs will have to rely on rest stops and gas stations *cry
Peggie, while I have you here...I am new to the world of porta potties. What is the best stuff to put in the holding tank..I have a Sealand. Joanie
When we tailgate at a Buffett Concert...
...we set up a Porta Potti inside a refrigerator box inside the flatbed of a pickup truck...it work's for the ladies. The guys use the woods.
...we set up a Porta Potti inside a refrigerator box inside the flatbed of a pickup truck...it work's for the ladies. The guys use the woods.
It is much more private than the Bumper Dumper!
I forget where I saw this advertised, but talk about roughing it! How about the Swim Platform Dumper, for use 12 miles off shore! Regards. Bruce Neon Moon
I forget where I saw this advertised, but talk about roughing it! How about the Swim Platform Dumper, for use 12 miles off shore! Regards. Bruce Neon Moon
Joanie-permanently installed/vented? Or portable?
I actually could have used one of those things a few years ago...on one of my trips back and forth from Atlanta-Little Rock loaded with stuff I didn't want to put on the moving van. About 30 miles from LR I decided I'd get off at the next exit, top off the gas and empty me...but before I got to the next exit, I ran into a wall of traffic that wasn't moving...an overpass had been hit early that was damaged enough that the DOT closed a section of I-40 and routed traffic onto a 2-lane road. More than an hour later I had gone less than a mile. I was ok on gas, but my bladder was starting to send me strong signals...and there wasn't a bush in sight! Nor could I pull over and use a big plastic cup, 'cuz I was surrounded by 18-wheelers who'd have a have a "front row seat" from their cabs. Just when things were starting to get really DESPERATE, a couple of state police cars came up the middle, forcing traffic off onto the shoulder to complete stop...and I had a brainstorm: I'd hop out and ask the RV that had been behind me for the last two hours if I could their head. And, God bless 'em...they let me! I don't know how long it took 'em to stop laughing. I wonder what one of those things costs.....
I actually could have used one of those things a few years ago...on one of my trips back and forth from Atlanta-Little Rock loaded with stuff I didn't want to put on the moving van. About 30 miles from LR I decided I'd get off at the next exit, top off the gas and empty me...but before I got to the next exit, I ran into a wall of traffic that wasn't moving...an overpass had been hit early that was damaged enough that the DOT closed a section of I-40 and routed traffic onto a 2-lane road. More than an hour later I had gone less than a mile. I was ok on gas, but my bladder was starting to send me strong signals...and there wasn't a bush in sight! Nor could I pull over and use a big plastic cup, 'cuz I was surrounded by 18-wheelers who'd have a have a "front row seat" from their cabs. Just when things were starting to get really DESPERATE, a couple of state police cars came up the middle, forcing traffic off onto the shoulder to complete stop...and I had a brainstorm: I'd hop out and ask the RV that had been behind me for the last two hours if I could their head. And, God bless 'em...they let me! I don't know how long it took 'em to stop laughing.
I wonder what one of those things costs.....Portable, Peggie
This room, that room, I came to use your bathroom Good story! The porta potti is portable, Peggie Joanie
This room, that room, I came to use your bathroom
Good story! The porta potti is portable, Peggie Joanie
White vinegar works as well as anything else.
In an unvented portapotty. Put a cupful (that's CUP, not "cap") in the tank...add another cupful to the flush water reservoir. After you've dumped it and rinsed out the tank at the end of the weekend, swish a couple of oz of RAritan C.P. around in the tank...then do NOT put the tank back...leave it out with the cap off so that fresh air can get into it. No stink when you come back to the boat.
In an unvented portapotty. Put a cupful (that's CUP, not "cap") in the tank...add another cupful to the flush water reservoir. After you've dumped it and rinsed out the tank at the end of the weekend, swish a couple of oz of RAritan C.P. around in the tank...then do NOT put the tank back...leave it out with the cap off so that fresh air can get into it. No stink when you come back to the boat.
thanks, Peggie
Thanks, Peggie. I was told by a fellow sailor that there is a product you can put in the holdink tank that will help to liquify the solids. What might that be? Joanie
Thanks, Peggie. I was told by a fellow sailor that there is a product you can put in the holdink tank that will help to liquify the solids. What might that be? Joanie
Not needed...
Solids are 75% water, so they break up in liquid fairly quickly and dissolve within hours without any "digesters." Quick-dissolve TP breaks up almost as soon as it gets wet. So "digesters" in holding tank products are just a marketing ploy, 'cuz agitation is the only way to speed up the rate at which solids dissolve in water. So if you have to dump the portapot tank before the solids have time to dissolve, shake the tank vigorously first to break 'em up.
Solids are 75% water, so they break up in liquid fairly quickly and dissolve within hours without any "digesters." Quick-dissolve TP breaks up almost as soon as it gets wet. So "digesters" in holding tank products are just a marketing ploy, 'cuz agitation is the only way to speed up the rate at which solids dissolve in water. So if you have to dump the portapot tank before the solids have time to dissolve, shake the tank vigorously first to break 'em up.
DejaVu All Over Again??
Solids are 75% water?????????.......didn't Yogi Bera say that once a long time ago?? If not then had he been a sailor I'm sure he would have. Thanks for your lecture in Oakland. Joe
Solids are 75% water?????????.......didn't Yogi Bera say that once a long time ago?? If not then had he been a sailor I'm sure he would have. Thanks for your lecture in Oakland. Joe
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