Neat little fresh water in an ABS pipe idea

They sell black poly bags as ‘solar water heaters’ for camping, 5 and 10 gallon sizes. Pretty reasonable price and designed for sitting out in the sun so should be decent life span.

JaxDad wrote:

Naio wrote:
I'm thinking about getting one of these
water bladders for the roof rack of my van. I would only fill it when parked, but it might make more sense for me than a water heater.

Water weighs 8.345 pounds per gallon. That water bladder when full would then weigh 500 pounds.

I saw in another post where you say your roof is fibreglass..

I think you’d very quickly have a new skylight if you put one of those on your roof.

:B I was thinking about getting a 10 or 15 gallon size. My roof holds a person walking around ok, and that would be less weight than a person, and better distributed.

And yeah, it wouldn't last forever. But the size I was looking at is $100.

Naio wrote:
I'm thinking about getting one of these

500 lbs in a plastic bag?
No mater how well made they are you know there will be a problem eventually.

Naio wrote:
I'm thinking about getting one of these
water bladders for the roof rack of my van. I would only fill it when parked, but it might make more sense for me than a water heater.

Water weighs 8.345 pounds per gallon. That water bladder when full would then weigh 500 pounds.

I saw in another post where you say your roof is fibreglass..

I think you’d very quickly have a new skylight if you put one of those on your roof.

I'm thinking about getting one of these
water bladders for the roof rack of my van. I would only fill it when parked, but it might make more sense for me than a water heater.

You can make a similar adapter to pressurize the ABS version too. You can also thread in a freshwater blowout connector to the water inlet connection. You just have to be careful not to over pressurize it. But you don't need much pressure anyway.

The commercial versions usually add a metal tire valve and allow you to pressurize the pipe using a compressor or a small bicycle pump even.

PastorCharlie wrote:
A good garden sprayer painted black is a great shower in the rough and needs very little water to do a GI shower.

That's an outstanding Quick-And-Clean minimalist showering solution!!

Most garden sprayers are in the 3 to 5 gallon range. A 4 or 5 gallon model might be good for at least 2 hot showers.

(But to get around that I donated our camper van away years ago and went the small motorhome route ... and have been clean ever since. ;) )

A good garden sprayer painted black is a great shower in the rough and needs very little water to do a GI shower.

smthbros wrote:

dodge guy wrote:
Don’t forget guys. A 4” pipe is the outside diameter!

I would say around 3 gallons?

I seldom venture south of the border, but up here in God's country, the nominal size of pipe refers to the inside diameter.
https://pvcfittingsdirect.com/pvc-pipe-sizes-chart/

I used to work for a company that manufactured, designed with, and sold PVC/ABS SDR-XX plastic sewer pipe. You are correct. Nominal size generally refers to inside diameter. Not all plastic pipe is sized that way though.

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