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12-03-2009, 20:36 | #1 |
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cassette toilet seals!
aftr chanbging the seals in yet another cassette toilet today it occured to me to offer some advice, earned the hard way regarding these seals.
its not a hard job, but it does stop you biting your nails! anyway I wanted to say dont use any chemicals in the toilet other than the proper fulids in the proper dilutions and in the right tanks, not blue in the top tank as this one was! When cleaning the toilet inside get a spray bottle and dilute some of the top tank (flushing fluid) usualy pink, and use hat as a spray for cleaning the shower and toilet area. DO NOT use household cleaning sprays, the worst i have found it that clear anti bactirial stuff, many super market have an 'own' brand the original was Detttox by detol, I have watched it melt toilet rubber seals before my eyes! and no bleach! |
12-03-2009, 20:59 | #2 |
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Interesting thread. Can you just tell me where the cassette toilet is in my Terrano please? Thanks.
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12-03-2009, 21:02 | #3 |
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Plank do you put olive oil on seal to lubricte it .JD
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12-03-2009, 21:07 | #4 |
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Like it lacroupade
I tend to take my cassette out in the winter, and put a smear of vasaline on the rubbers start of each season. Interesting your comments on cleaners, Ive got a bottle of detox in the 'van - tend to mix it with hot water and at the end of the holiday clean the kitchen, toilet, shower, sinks etc out with it, then tip the remains down the waste pipes to give them a clean, then when it drains out into the waste master give that a swill out with it.... keeps everything smelling sweet and aint ever noticed any damage to seals? |
12-03-2009, 21:13 | #5 |
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How good are these cassette toilets?
Is there any damger of electrocution and can you get them with a radio too or even a cd player, will I need special waterproof tapes or will all my old ones work in them. As for the seals I've not heard them but whale noises are meant to be relaxing so I suppose seals might be interesting to listen to too. |
12-03-2009, 21:25 | #6 |
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Hi Plank
As much as I enjoyed the great responses from the fellow crazies of this club, I'd just like to say, as a newbie cassette toilet owner, thanks for the advice, I'll put it to good use this coming season. Kind regards, CL |
12-03-2009, 22:07 | #7 |
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Yes
More seriously, you might be interested in the Toilet ISP broadband system offered by Google. NOt sure whether you can get this for a caravan, though ......... See: http://www.google.com/tisp/ Cheers Andrew |
12-03-2009, 22:25 | #8 |
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i have never seen the need to lubricate these seals at all, but i have found a lot of people have damaged seals and dont even realsie it, the usual symptoms being bad odours in the caravan and the cassete leaking when you carry it for emptying.
The worst being one day it just wont open or shut, if you look at the main 'lip seal' it starts to go by 'rippling' around he edge, they really are simple to change , the vent seal being a little harder as it requires putting your arm in the cassette not for the squeamish. It is somehting you dont want to fail in the middle of a holiday! I have put an old seal down and sprayed it with clear dettox type cleaner (htis one was asdas own brand) and you couLd watch the lip wrinkle as the cleaner damaged it! another issue for odd chemicals is off course damage to the pump in the flush tank! which is a worse and more exspensive job too change. PERSONALY i PREFFER NOT TO USE THE ON BOARD TOILETS SHOWERS OR WATER SYTEMS AND TAPS AT ALL, BUT IF YOU DO, IT IS WORTH BEARING IN MIND WHAT CHEMICALS YOU STICK IN THE LOO! in some ways i wish i hadn't started tis thread now! |
12-03-2009, 22:31 | #9 |
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Have you ever come across the loo's you don't use the pink stuff?
On ours we have had to buy it in a spray to use after you flush..
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12-03-2009, 22:36 | #10 |
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ive read some where you can use olive oil on the seals to help them last longer too
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12-03-2009, 22:51 | #11 |
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you can get a proper lubricant for around £3.30 a can but I have never found the need to use it, toilets regularly used with no contminating chemicals rarley go wrong.
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Vaseline is petroleum based so will absorbed into the rubber and over time will cause it to perish. use a silicon based spray or olive oil as suggested. Brian ;O) |
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13-03-2009, 14:28 | #14 |
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well wont taste nice in the aqua roll. plenty of blue in 'bottom' tank /cassette. yes you'd think by now cds would have replaced cassette loos.
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