Unique RV Digest-it Product

paintedtugboat wrote:
Just something else with which to get into your wallet. We have become obsessed with killing germs. Scientists are now saying that our immune systems are weak because we are not exposed to enough bacteria as children. Those of us who made mud pies in our youth are better off than those who were overprotected.

Flush your tanks regularly as recommended and keep your wallet in your pocket.

I made mud pies as a kid as well but today's kids have higher risks than we did. Hygiene, while historically important, is critical today with the risk of MRSA (Google it) and flesh eating bacteria which evolved to be resistant to our strongest antibiotics. Sorry to hijack the thread.
Bill

Water, and more water.

We used plain ole' water for 20+ years of RVing. No problems and very cheap!

I don't know about magical enzymes. If anybody has ever dumped with a clear section in your dump hose, you can see what comes out. And if you have solids (paper or poop), it is most likely NOT all coming out. Flush all you want. Use dawn all you want. Or Borax. Or ice cubes. You still have piles of paper and other stuff sitting on the bottom of your tank. UNLESS, you have one heck of a slope on the floor of your tank. But, many tanks are long and narrow. Toilet drops at one end, and dump hole is at the other.

Happy camper breaks up paper and poop into very small pieces. Even if it is only in there a couple of days. Makes everything much easier to dump and flush. Especially if using a macerator pump, which I use on occasion when I have to dump at home.

Not only does Happy camper break solids up into smaller pieces, there is also no smell. Not even on 100 degree days. I don't know how it works. Don't care. It just works.

mowermech wrote:
I don't know that I would go so far as to state "snake oil", but in my uneducated opinion such products are just as much a waste of money as "enzyme treatments" for a septic tank.
Since my home sewer system IS a septic tank, I have done a lot of research on the care and feeding of such systems. The consensus of opinion seems to be that everything a septic tank needs is contained in the waste from a human body. NOTHING needs to be added. The same authorities also state that such enzymes take at least a week to do any good, so putting such products in an RV holding tank is an exercise in futility.
My personal experience agrees.

Sound far from an "uneducated opinion" to me, more like a decent understanding of basic biology and septic systems. As a builder, I would hand every customer a pile of paperwork from the state DEP, regarding their newly installed on-site septic system. The "user manual" portion of the documents include a statement that no additives were necessary in a properly operating system, and that some additives can be detrimental.
As for the claims of magical enzymes for a HOLDING tank, well there's one born every minute, as Mr. Barnum once said.

I use it all the time! Very nice product cleans all the tank sensors very well! And, RV.Net poster Ray Chez suggested to me a product to me which also works well if you can't find RV Digest it's called Happy Camper! Snake Oil claim is B.S. to me IMHO, but he is entitled to his opinion!

Just something else with which to get into your wallet. We have become obsessed with killing germs. Scientists are now saying that our immune systems are weak because we are not exposed to enough bacteria as children. Those of us who made mud pies in our youth are better off than those who were overprotected.

Flush your tanks regularly as recommended and keep your wallet in your pocket.

I have used Digesters when I was parked long term between dumps.. I "Felt" they may have helped but frankly can not prove it.

Now that I full time I am almost never farther than a full tank from a dump station.. Of course till I fix the engine, I'm hooked to one full time, but even when on the road... Taylor MI to Seneca SC in 2 days means I went six days between dump stations. I normally dump every 7.

I don't know that I would go so far as to state "snake oil", but in my uneducated opinion such products are just as much a waste of money as "enzyme treatments" for a septic tank.
Since my home sewer system IS a septic tank, I have done a lot of research on the care and feeding of such systems. The consensus of opinion seems to be that everything a septic tank needs is contained in the waste from a human body. NOTHING needs to be added. The same authorities also state that such enzymes take at least a week to do any good, so putting such products in an RV holding tank is an exercise in futility.
My personal experience agrees.

Snake oil