Avion truck campers - Hundreds of photos
Without going into too much painful detail, we had a mishap several week-ends ago. While working with sand bag crews on the Mississippi River, the truck and camper fell into the flood waters as a road...
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67avion wrote:
There is a long discussion by 69avion and Ticki2 about the building of a SS holding tank and other issues relating to water handling on around P 80 - 82. There is a specific discussion of the toilet on P 8269avion wrote:
For those that are doing a rebuild, we spent a lot of time talking to the folks at Thetford, including one of the top folks in the parts department that has been there a long time. They don't have any parts for these old toilets. The other issue is that this toilet is a couple inches shorter than the low profile, new toilets. I decided to redo the bathroom to take a modern toilet. Avion had 3-1/2" of wood under that closet flange and fiberglass cover to make up for this very short toilet. I made the holding tank higher by 1" and took out all but one 3/4" board to make the modern low profile toilet the proper height. I went with the cheaper, and lighter plastic unit, with the intention of replacing it every 10 or 15 years.
I don't know if others are up for a big change, but I put the Thetford electramagic in my C10. There were no original parts left, so I wnt with a toilet that didn't need a black tank. Later I had my son in his high school welding class weld up a 3"x23"x48" 14 gallon grey water tank which is under the floor. I do not yet have a shower pan, so no need for shower yet, nor do I have a hot water heater yet, but it is easy enough to beat water to on the stove. Hope this helps! Garry
