Uncomfortable toilet seat

I feel the OPs pain, installed a 320 in my Lance, fixed.

Kind of a crappy subject....

gitpicker2009 wrote:
turbo, I checked with Dometic, they say it can, but you should use silicone to seal the area around the base. Makes sense.
I'm going to make the swap.

Yes - good idea. I hadn't thought of that. The base would need to be sealed. In my case both the riser and the base would need to be sealed.

This is my second season with it. I was at Hershey last weekend and boondocking at NASCAR the weekend before. It's definitely a nice touch. Most of my use has been dry camping, but we had full hookups at Hershey. With some decent water pressure behind it the thing has a swirl *almost* like home but doesn't use a lot of water. The black tank was only 1/2 full when I left Hershey on Sunday (though to be fair we did spend the days at the park). At NASCAR we were the tailgating home base for about a dozen people on Saturday. I left with the black tank 3/4 full.

turbo, I checked with Dometic, they say it can, but you should use silicone to seal the area around the base. Makes sense.
I'm going to make the swap.

gitpicker2009 wrote:
Can that Dometic 320 be used in a wet bath?

I don't see why not.

Can that Dometic 320 be used in a wet bath?

hedgehopper wrote:
At Walmart I bought an $8 lightweight, plastic, residential toilet seat and cover. With the hinge pins and cover removed, the Walmart seat fits on the Thetford seat and stays positioned fairly well. After our next trip (don't know when that will be), I will comment on how well it works.

Will that be a "seat of the pants" type of review, or are you going to have an objective scoring system with points and guest judges?

HERE you go.

hedgehopper wrote:
At Walmart I bought an $8 lightweight, plastic, residential toilet seat and cover. With the hinge pins and cover removed, the Walmart seat fits on the Thetford seat and stays positioned fairly well. After our next trip (don't know when that will be), I will comment on how well it works.

Having returned from an eight-day trip, I can say that the Walmart-seat experiment is a success: Not perfect. But superior to the stock Thetford seat. My only complaint is that the Walmart seat moves around a bit on the Thetford seat – but not enough to make the combination unusable. And the standard Thetford cover cannot be closed with the Walmart seat in place.

My question: Why did Thetford not install a standard-size seat in the first place? The Thetford design could have accommodated such a seat with very minor changes.

Other than the seat, I have no complaint about the Thetford toilet. The flushing action is good and the quantity of water used is readily controllable. So why did Thetford ruin a perfectly good design with an inferior seat?

At Walmart I bought an $8 lightweight, plastic, residential toilet seat and cover. With the hinge pins and cover removed, the Walmart seat fits on the Thetford seat and stays positioned fairly well. After our next trip (don't know when that will be), I will comment on how well it works.