poddy dodger wrote on Oct 28^th, 2009 at 2:52pm:


Too right PD and the shower is just as nice as you'd have at home.

i've been useing the canvas bag type shower for yrs, there great, i havent had much luck with the solar ones, they  go mouldy on me when not in use, pretty hard to dry em out with only the small filler hole, & you realy need one per person, i can have upto a doz people for a weekend.

This is my latest, it's a few yrs old now, often newbies would turn the canvas bag rose off to tight & i'd have to pull it apart to sort it, also they would always worry how much water was left.

So i made this out of an old catering food bucket, it has a toilet systern tap, mainly because it was the lightest (easiest to turn) tap i could find, a couple of plastic fittings, i made it all up in the aisles, of bunnings  , then used an old shower fitting from home, just removed the long shaft.



I timed my bag shower & it went for about 3-4 min.

Inside the bucket i screwed a plastic blank into the pipe fitting blocking it off, then started by drilleng a 3 mm hole, then 4 mm etc till it ran the same time as the bag shower.
Next problem was there wasnt enough water to run the whole rose properly, so i cut a circle of rubber at about 40mm dia, & syliconed it to the centre of th rose, that only left about 4 rows of holes around the outside, it run nice then.
Works great, you get about 4 min, you can always see how much water is left, i usualy get wet turn it off then soap & shampoo up then turn it on to rince off .

we heat the water up in an old keg when there are a few of us, if it's just me a fill an old staino ern in the morning & just leave it in the sun all day in summer, just boil a kettle on the gas in winter.



Trev
Aus

TBF wrote on Jan 10^th, 2010 at 7:39pm:


Yep  the simplest & cheapest way to get the job done is best i reckon

Trev
Aus
ps it cost about 15 bucks