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Neat little fresh water in an ABS pipe idea

wopachop
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Saw this down in sunny San Diego. There is a hose bib on the right side. My buddy said its common for the surfer guys to do this. Water gets warmed a bit in the black pipe.

If its 4", and roughly 60" long, it holds around 3.25 gallons.



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JaxDad
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They sell black poly bags as โ€˜solar water heatersโ€™ for camping, 5 and 10 gallon sizes. Pretty reasonable price and designed for sitting out in the sun so should be decent life span.

Naio
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JaxDad wrote:
Naio wrote:
I'm thinking about getting one of these
water bladders for the roof rack of my van. I would only fill it when parked, but it might make more sense for me than a water heater.


Water weighs 8.345 pounds per gallon. That water bladder when full would then weigh 500 pounds.

I saw in another post where you say your roof is fibreglass..

I think youโ€™d very quickly have a new skylight if you put one of those on your roof.


:B I was thinking about getting a 10 or 15 gallon size. My roof holds a person walking around ok, and that would be less weight than a person, and better distributed.

And yeah, it wouldn't last forever. But the size I was looking at is $100.
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Fizz
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Naio wrote:
I'm thinking about getting one of these


500 lbs in a plastic bag?
No mater how well made they are you know there will be a problem eventually.

JaxDad
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Naio wrote:
I'm thinking about getting one of these
water bladders for the roof rack of my van. I would only fill it when parked, but it might make more sense for me than a water heater.


Water weighs 8.345 pounds per gallon. That water bladder when full would then weigh 500 pounds.

I saw in another post where you say your roof is fibreglass..

I think youโ€™d very quickly have a new skylight if you put one of those on your roof.

Naio
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I'm thinking about getting one of these
water bladders for the roof rack of my van. I would only fill it when parked, but it might make more sense for me than a water heater.
3/4 timing in a DIY van conversion. Backroads, mountains, boondocking, sometimes big cities for a change of pace.

mobeewan
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You can make a similar adapter to pressurize the ABS version too. You can also thread in a freshwater blowout connector to the water inlet connection. You just have to be careful not to over pressurize it. But you don't need much pressure anyway.

4x4van
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The commercial versions usually add a metal tire valve and allow you to pressurize the pipe using a compressor or a small bicycle pump even.
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PastorCharlie wrote:
A good garden sprayer painted black is a great shower in the rough and needs very little water to do a GI shower.


That's an outstanding Quick-And-Clean minimalist showering solution!!

Most garden sprayers are in the 3 to 5 gallon range. A 4 or 5 gallon model might be good for at least 2 hot showers.

(But to get around that I donated our camper van away years ago and went the small motorhome route ... and have been clean ever since. ๐Ÿ˜‰ )
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PastorCharlie
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A good garden sprayer painted black is a great shower in the rough and needs very little water to do a GI shower.

Chum_lee
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smthbros wrote:
dodge guy wrote:
Donโ€™t forget guys. A 4โ€ pipe is the outside diameter!

I would say around 3 gallons?


I seldom venture south of the border, but up here in God's country, the nominal size of pipe refers to the inside diameter.
https://pvcfittingsdirect.com/pvc-pipe-sizes-chart/


I used to work for a company that manufactured, designed with, and sold PVC/ABS SDR-XX plastic sewer pipe. You are correct. Nominal size generally refers to inside diameter. Not all plastic pipe is sized that way though.

Chum lee

smthbros
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dodge guy wrote:
Donโ€™t forget guys. A 4โ€ pipe is the outside diameter!

I would say around 3 gallons?


I seldom venture south of the border, but up here in God's country, the nominal size of pipe refers to the inside diameter.
https://pvcfittingsdirect.com/pvc-pipe-sizes-chart/

JaxDad
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Iโ€™m surprised none of the PC grumpy-pants in the crowd here have mentioned that the van is illegally parked.

:B

dodge_guy
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Donโ€™t forget guys. A 4โ€ pipe is the outside diameter!

I would say around 3 gallons?
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