Thursday, Feb 24, 2005 at 21:13
Hello Matt,
I did not get involved in that thread, as the topic was pretty well covered, and as to the SOG unit, I have tried it so cannot comment.... However, I will tell you what I am working on in Theory:
I have lived with these kind of systems, in vans since the Airstream trailers in America in the early 60's and 20 years with home base being one of many large yachts in the 70's, 80's, up to the 1993 when I finally broke down and sold the last one... Then with the
Bushtracker loos since...
Odor is a problem in a chemical free environment no matter what you do. If you do not use the chemicals, the waste rots and delivers noxious gasses... OK, you pump out the odor out of your van, but what about the person next to you??? Even on the yachts, you had to keep the waste in "Holding Tanks" and they had to be vented to the outside as hull temperature in the tropics is quite high and you were fermenting the waste... Percolating quite a brew!! Ha! No chemicals? Real nice walking down the dock when down wind... Sooooo, on the "no chemical bend", I have no positive comments....
Now as to the emptying bend.... I will when I have the time, look into the "Macerator Pump" concept... I would like to have this system that could somehow hook up to the Cassette, but do not know how... yet.
It is one of about 100 projects I am looking into... This Macerator is a bladed garbage grinder, 12 V, like a disposal unit in a sink on a smaller scale, but a pump as well... It will "macerate" all the waste and pump it out as a liquid... Now there are some problems to be sorted out, like flushing the line, and such, but it would be convenient to do at a dump site or hole in the ground when the van was mobile... It is on my wish list of projects... But even then, in anything by refrigeration cold type weather, you are going to want the chemicals because they are not an odour mask as much as a perservative...
Sorry but that is all I have for you.... Kind Regards, the "Lone Ranger"
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