Thread: Low tech camping shower.

If it is a stainless steel fire extinguisher looking shower; we have one. Have used it a fair bit on longer trips and trips during the winter months.


It works well - it's too simple not to. We have sat it beside the campfire and let it warm up slowly, or for a quicker heat up we have used the gas ring burner.
My only tips with it would be:
1. Be careful when you are heating it up - too hot is bad!
2. Give it a rinse when you have finished with it, especially if you have used river water in it - pays to get rid of the grime etc.
After 12 months or so ours looks and works like new.
KevG

Thanks Kev. Sounds the same. Thanks for the tips.

I have made the type of shower -with great pressure- as described in this video:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzulTqm1sz0]BEST CAMP SHOWER 12volt with high water pressure - YouTube[/ame]

Take time to read the comments there.

I don't like showers that are feeble pressure.

As per the video, I got the Whale pump - $60 from caravansplus.com.au

A newish looking caravan type plastic shower head -and the 1m metal cover flex hose attached to it- was free at a Trash n Treasure market. The 10mm tubing (5m) was under $10 at Bunnings. A 10mm joiner piece was $3.

Has this thing got a name or can you provide a URL so I can look at it online - sounds interesting. I like simple versatile things, and this sounds like the goods.

Originally Posted by wombathole

I just bought what looks like an awesome camp shower. No electrics, no gas. Super simple.

It's a pressurised canister which you pump up with a hand pump and heat up on a stove (or next to a fire). Got a temp gauge to monitor the water temp and with only a few dozen pumps provides high pressure spray from the hand nozzle.

It's looks great. Can't wait to try it out in 2 weeks when we go down the beach.

Anyone else got one? How do they perform in real life?

Originally Posted by towe0609

Has this thing got a name or can you provide a URL so I can look at it online - sounds interesting. I like simple versatile things, and this sounds like the goods.

X2.
Thanks
Andrew

http://www.anaconda.com.au/Product/C...-Shower---Hand here is one

Just search pressurised camping shower and heap come up

That Anaconda price is about $40 less than Ray's Outdoors price for the same item.
Companion Stainless Steel Pressure Shower - Rays Outdoors

That's the one we have - saved me a walk to the shed.


If I had a sense of adventure I would drill and tap a hole, fit a Schrader valve (like on a tyre) so the 12V compressor could be used to pressurise it.


KevG