On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 18:29:56 -0800 (PST), "
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>On Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 5:42:14 PM UTC-6, cshenk wrote:
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>> wrote:
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>> Yes, true 'off grid' is a bit different but they do have a little solar
>> panel on top. It feeds to a small battery that they use to charge
>> cellphones at night and a DVD player (like this:
>>
>> <https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sylvania-Sdvd9020b-black-9-Portable-Dvd-Players-With-5-hour-Battery-black/15066091?athcpid=15066091&athpgid=athenaItemPage&a thcgid=null&athznid=PWVUB&athieid=v0&athstid=CS020 &athguid=86ddf8e3-175-1690d181d8b35b&athena=true>
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>> Anyways, their 5gal 'hot water heater' arrived today and they tested it
>> with the LP hookup then took it to the kitchen and washed the dishes.
>> They have a bracket mount for it at the back of the RV to use as a
>> shower (when rolling, it's inside someplace obviously).
>>
>> They tried to describe the arrangement over the phone and it sounded
>> both crazy and workable.
>>
>Most of the smaller campers have outside faucets so a shower can be taken
>outdoors or at least a rinse off. Free-standing private shower tents can
>also be rigged up outdoors.
>>
>> Best I can replicate: At the top of the PVC pipe arrangement is a sort
>> of '6 gallon square plastic funnel' with a shower head (and a turn off
>> toggle). Hot water is mixed with ambient temp water to the right temp
>> from another 5gal jug. He said that cold water jug is perched on the
>> roof but he didnt feel safe running a LP heater that way so made a
>> bracket for that.
>>
>> Heater at max temp, his mix of 50/50 hot and cold seems to provide a
>> suitable amount.
>>
>> See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy_shower
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>> It's not a 'Hollywood shower' but quite suitable when water is short,
>> and with 5G cold/ambient and 5G hot, they get plenty to wash hair and
>> such when not at a camp ground. The average 'Navy Shower' is 3 gallons
>> and they will have 5 each, or they can each take 3G showers and then
>> use the rest to wash the dishes with a single LP heated water set.
>>
>> Anyways, I'm having fun watching them tell me about it!
>>
>There's lots of things they can rig up to use to save time and water that
>many of us haven't ever thought of doing. Whenever we stayed in campgrounds
>we also used their shower facilities. But out in wilds you have to make do.

I bought a 5 acre lot on a lake in Washington New Hampshire, this was
some 50 years ago. There was a rustic cabin on the lake and for
thanksgiving I spent the time with my daughter, She loved it even
though we ate turkey sandwiches. One Thanksgiving it began to snow
and we could barely get up the hill from the lake... If I didn;t have
the Dodge 4X4 pick up we would have been stuck there until May.