Peggie Hall wrote in news:ZKJah.844$Py2.662
@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net:

LOL Perhaps not if it were a portapotty with a "dropleaf" lid panels
that would allow it to double as a coffee table....??

(sorry...but the mental images were just irresistable)

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HEY! WATCHIT! When I was a young sailor back in the mid 1960's, I had a
Volkswagon Kombi camper with the popup top. Under the seat behind the
driver, that looked backwards at the dinette table, I installed that
portapottie. It fit perfectly!

As we camped in hot South Carolina, I installed a small A/C in the port
bulkhead in the middle window over the table right above the "head". The
A/C leaned in, due to the slope of the window, so I had to drill a hole
in the drain pan and drain the condensate inside the van to a hose. This
was great because the condensate water was plumbed into the supply tank
of the little Porta Pottie to fill its fresh water supply tank...which
never needed filling.... An overflow, installed at the top of the tank,
drained off excess flush water under the camper.

The "holding tank" on the bottom you'd normally remove to dump by hand,
was modified by adding a holding tank outside drain valve and hose
fitting that was sealed into a hole cut into the floor of the camper. It
dumped like the big RVs at any dump station, without taking the Porta
Pottie apart.

Some foam tape sealed the seat to the bowl and more on the lid sealed the
lid to the seat to make the top gas tight. The weight of the camper's
padded seat over the storage compartment was perfect to press down on the
lid to increase the seal. A small shim glued to the bottom of the seat
made it so. Once closed and the camper ventilated, you'd never know it
had its own pottie facility.....right at the dinner table...(c;

We had some great parties in that camper. DC power came from an 8D
monster battery under the fold-down rear bed seat with battery cables
running back to the powerful 37hp Volkswagen engine's old fashioned DC
generator on the fan shaft.

A cop stopped me for speeding on I-26 in Columbia, SC, on the way to a
campout. The speed limit was 70 in those days. The flow limiter built
into the bottom of the carb would only let it go 65, even down a steep
hill to keep from overrevving the pancake engine that had reduction gears
on each drive wheel. I showed the cop the VW seal and offered to see him
in court over the ticket. He tore up the ticket and laid rubber getting
away from me...(c; I was the slowest thing next to a garbage truck!

Thanks for the memories, Peggie. It truly was a "self-contained"
camper....(c;


Larry
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If we eliminate religion, will they stop murdering each other?

Larry wrote:


HEY! WATCHIT! When I was a young sailor back in the mid 1960's, I had a
Volkswagon Kombi camper with the popup top.
snip....

Bulls*it! You were never young!