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Re: [VAL] Recirculating toilets
Back in 1976 I bought my first trailer when I was 20 years old, a 22' 1967
Ideal,
That had a Monomatic recalculating toilet installed where the marine toilet
used to be. It also had a holding tank. It came with a box of packets of blue
powder that you put in the empty toilet with a gallon of water. It would
last a couple of weeks of continuous use without odors and then I would dump it
in the holding tank. I really could last a long time when boon docking, I'm
pretty sure it held less than 8 gallons because I could last a couple of
months. I was very happy with it. Monomatics were popular when they came out
because people who had older trailers from the 1950s, back when a park model was
considered "selfcontained", could remove the tiny china tank flush toilet
from there bathroom and have "real" self containment in the bathroom without
installing a holding and water tank. I didn't know there were portable
recirculating toilets.
Vanessa
'52 Cruiser
'56 Flying Cloud
'58 Overlander