Thread: Hot water systems

Mrs HH,
I went to the Dometic website and the best results I got was a generator and a vacuum toilet.

Can you please give me more (doubtless polite) directions.

Thanks,
Peter

Hi Again Mrs HH,
Did you get the Dometic Truma brand of water heater? If so, which one?

Thanks,
Peter

Originally Posted by JamesH

On our camps we put some water in a large bucket and get it very hot by the camp fire. We then cool it off to our desired temperature with added cold water.

The take it into the shower tent with the little 12v shower pump and away you go.

It's handy I admit if you haven't been in for a dip for a day or two and the women seem to find it satisfactory. Mind you they haven't heard about these built in jobbies you are talking about, and they never will either.

Yes James the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) principle works almost faultlessly.

I Travelled through the Simpson Desert and Fink River, had a shower everyday.

I used to boil the billy and pour that in a bucket, add cold water to suit. I then droped a 12v bildge pump from the local marine shop in the bucket, hooked to a shower head. I rigged up a water proof switch so I could turn it on/off from the shower. It emtied the bucket too fast so I made some holes in the pipe just above the pump so some bled back into the bucket, worked better than restricting the flow.
Pump $25
Shower & Hose $10
Bucket $5

After that I had hundreds of $$$ to spend on other gadgets.

PS. The cheap shower pumps from kmart I find have mild steel shaft and rusts. A proper marine pump is stainless and will work time after time.

Yeah, I bought a cheapie from BCF I think, same same as Primus etc everywhere.

The SECOND time I went to use it, it was seized, and when I pulled it apart it was full of water. Copious amounts of WD40 got it going again but it is garbage and I have no faith in it working again.
Anyone know of a small WATERPROOF pump of better quality I could graft onto the shower hose. I used to have a small bilge pump but it was too high a flow but maybe that is the answer with some relief holes.
Regard sPhilip A

Have a look for ShurFlo pumps. We use them on our farm machinery and they are good quality and a reasonable price. When you say waterproof, do you mean you want to submerge it?

General Purpose Pumps

Bilge Pumps

Originally Posted by Hoges

See also Camping shower. The RainMan hot camp shower

I like that...simple and effective...

Bought a Coleman unit today, went to Rays in Canberra and asked them if they would match this deal :Down Under Camping*::*SHOWERS*::*Coleman Hot Water On Demand*::*Coleman-Hot Water On Demand Package

They agreed to match the deal including the $50 freight it would cost me to get the one from brisbane. In the end I got the heater, shower, bag, and Gas hose for $445. which I dont think is too bad considering I get to return it locally for warranty if necessary.
Went to BCF who had just the heater and shower for $450 but they wouldnt even consider dropping their price, "we're not interested in price matching"

Will post how it goes over the long weekend.......


Regards,
Tote

We used ours over the long weekend at Newnes and it worked well. Found without recycling that it used about 10 litres per shower so I'm not sure whether you'd be using it too much without a supply of clean water nearby. It is certainly nice to just run a tub of hot water to do the washing up etc rather than waiting for a billy to boil etc.
Regards,
Tote