Those electric conversion toilets are not worth it

Sticky Fingers said:
Maybe. But a proper electric WC doesn’t need servicing, it just works. We can agree to differ. I’d never ever ever have a manual bog on a boat.
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You sure :) that little leak around the pump handle guaranteed to find its way onto your hand and to prompt concerns about exactly which side of the pump system is escaping and as for that parfume de marsh gas greeting you as you open the bog door, no matter how much expensive goo you stick down it.
The Romans used to have communal sponge on stick, suprised something similar is not on sale in ones local chandlery there would appear to be market out there ?
 
oldgit said:
You sure :) that little leak around the pump handle guaranteed to find its way onto your hand and to prompt concerns about exactly which side of the pump system is escaping and as for that parfume de marsh gas greeting you as you open the bog door, no matter how much expensive goo you stick down it.
The Romans used to have communal sponge on stick, suprised something similar is not on sale in ones local chandlery there would appear to be market out there ?
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The stick might snap don’t you know. Can’t take that risk.
 
geem said:
More likely they have the wrong wife😅
My wife is very happy with the Lavac. She has done 10s of thousands of miles with me and doesn't want to get off yet🙂
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My wife just wanted ‘a proper heads’ separated from the rest by a proper door. I think the Lord daily that her needs are met so simply. Outside the boat though…. I am not allowed to use the en suite loo🤣 Which I put in. It is preferred that I use the gardeners heads. Not that we have a gardener.
 
In Ye Oldene Daze.
Some might remember the quantum leap from a galvanised bucket to the tin "Elsan" and "Jeyes" Fluid

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When potable water was taken aboard in a milk churn shaped plastic container specially designed for the job.
When a diesel reluctant to start at the crack of dawn Mid January could be persuaded into life with a diesel soaked rag (on a bit of stick for H&S purposes.) was set alight and held in front of the air intake.
Air filter ? :ROFLMAO:
:)
 
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oldgit said:
In Ye Oldene Daze.
Some might remember the quantum leap from a galvanised bucket to the tin "Elsan" and "Jeyes" Fluid

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When potable water was taken aboard in a milk churn shaped plastic container specially designed for the job.
When a diesel reluctant to start at the crack of dawn Mid January could be persuaded into life with a deisel soaked rag (on a stick) which had been set alight was held in front of the air intake. The air filter discarded long ago.
:)
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A diesel! I remember my dad's boat having a Stuart Turner 8hp inboard 2 stroke petrol engine. 2 cylinders of pure misery.
 
geem said:
A diesel! I remember my dad's boat having a Stuart Turner 8hp inboard 2 stroke petrol engine. 2 cylinders of pure misery.
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:ROFLMAO:
"One" of Dads boat was of double ended double diagonal construction with a Ford 4D of some description originally owned by a local shipping company who worked it to death before selling it on.
Most of its second life was spent trying to prevent the hull from dismantling its self back to its original component parts before all the metal parts rusted back to dust.
Note the chimney for the solid fuel fire.
It was sold on to some lucky soul.
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oldgit said:
In Ye Oldene Daze.
Some might remember the quantum leap from a galvanised bucket to the tin "Elsan" and "Jeyes" Fluid

View attachment 199367
When potable water was taken aboard in a milk churn shaped plastic container specially designed for the job.
When a diesel reluctant to start at the crack of dawn Mid January could be persuaded into life with a diesel soaked rag (on a bit of stick for H&S purposes.) was set alight and held in front of the air intake.
Air filter ? :ROFLMAO:
:)
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Funny thing though. Back when I was a backpacker, I stayed with a lot of farmers and alternative people, and they often had outhouses. And in those outhouses, they had a bucked filled with wood dust. Worked very well.
 
oldgit said:
:ROFLMAO:
"One" of Dads boat was of double ended double diagonal construction with a Ford 4D of some description originally owned by a local shipping company who worked it to death before selling it on.
Most of its second life was spent trying to prevent the hull from dismantling its self back to its original component parts before all the metal parts rusted back to dust.
Note the chimney for the solid fuel fire.
It was sold on to some lucky soul.
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Looks like a tiny tugh boat. I can't imagine there is any space "below deck". In quotation marks because it doesn't look like there is anything there besides a wood stove.
But definitely a cool boat he had!
 
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