Title: solar shower
Post by: alibongo on June 10, 2006, 10:45:33 pm
Hey guys bought a solar shower today from Fozzie bailys camp shop for the princely sum of £5, thought that I would try it on the patio today holds 20lts of water, what a brilliant idea !!!works a treat, heated up in 2hrs hot enough for a nice shower( hope the sun stays out at L/M !!!!! anyway a definate thumbs up for the solar shower ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: solar shower
Post by: chop456 on June 10, 2006, 10:51:34 pm
Yup. Works like a charm. You got a great deal, too!
Title: Re: solar shower
Post by: alibongo on June 10, 2006, 11:11:30 pm
yeah I thought it was too cheap to be any good but looks like it works!!!! a bargain ;D
Title: Re: solar shower
Post by: Piglet on June 10, 2006, 11:13:21 pm
Be aware the water that comes out of them will be VERY hot if we have the weather we had last year!! You'll need to mix it in some way to make it useable!
Title: Re: solar shower
Post by: Snoring Rhino on June 10, 2006, 11:33:53 pm
last year I built a solar shower by using 2 lorry inner tubes connected to a hose from the stand pipe, a small pump powered by an electric drill and a hanging basket hose attachment( Robert Dyas, even has different spray patterns). It worked ok, but we found that the water in the hose pipes got hotter (less cross section volume to heat). So this year we have a refined version of the pump (properly mounted with a remote pull switch) and a double width shower tent (£5 off of *bay, less scary for the neighbours).We have about 50m + mine (25m) of hose which we will route to try to get as much sun as possible. The inner tubes will make sure that if we run out of heated water it won’t suddenly get cold. Probably cost about £30 in bits that I had to buy over junk in the shed.
Title: Re: solar shower
Post by: alibongo on June 11, 2006, 07:40:14 am
hey buddy thats very ingeee....ingeeneers......ingee.....you know what I mean !!!
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Post by: Black Granny on June 11, 2006, 10:43:58 pm
hey buddy thats very ingeee....ingeeneers......ingee.....you know what I mean !!!
Clever?
Title: Re: solar shower
Post by: Snoring Rhino on June 11, 2006, 11:01:09 pm
hey buddy thats very ingeee....ingeeneers......ingee.....you know what I mean !!!
Clever?
Title: Re: solar shower
Post by: alibongo on June 12, 2006, 09:27:18 am
thats the word I was looking for !!!! ( getting a little senile or the sun has over heated the remaining grey cells)
Title: Re: solar shower
Post by: vqdave on June 12, 2006, 11:56:09 am
i was gonna get one of these until i remembered the general state and lack of facilities in which we usually camp. Although this year we do have the luxury of a gazebo!! And there are never any trees from which to hang said shower at our camps, and the thought of being organised enough to actually get a shower tent as well as a shower is way beyond me. I will be happy laying there amongst our usual piles of empty bottles, half eaten blacked meat, porn, flies, and sweating bodies.
Title: Re: solar shower
Post by: alibongo on June 12, 2006, 05:40:14 pm
well if you had remembered your boy scout training you could have made a tripod out of 3 sticks bud and at only £5 what have you got to lose appart from B.O ;D ;D ;D
