This a wind up !!

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FourWheelDrift

88,504 posts

284 months

Friday 10th April 2015
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daytona365 said:
Indeed, the principle is right, but surely you'd have to drive your caravan to the summit of Everest for even a possibility of this happening.....................They don't do they ??
Might explain the queues. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22680192

daytona365

1,773 posts

164 months

Friday 10th April 2015
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Hard to believe isn't it ? Seems nowhere these days is free of bloody people !

IforB

9,840 posts

229 months

Friday 10th April 2015
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This is Pistonheads, therefore anyone who admits to owning a tin tent fully deserves to get covered in s##t.

donaircooleone

427 posts

177 months

Friday 10th April 2015
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IforB said:
This is Pistonheads, therefore anyone who admits to owning a tin tent fully deserves to get covered in s##t.
You must try one smile

It is possible although I would always recommend the ventilation kits available (also for other reasons).

pboyall

176 posts

121 months

Friday 10th April 2015
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There is generally 1 hectopascal of pressure drop for every 30 feet of altitude change. Normal sea level pressure is 1013 hectopascals.

So if you climbed a 5000' mountain from sea level (quite do-able in Europe) you would see a pressure change of roungly 1/6 of an atmosphere.

Bearing in mind that you tyres are only pressurised to 2 atmospheres, there is certainly a chance of "splatter".

aw51 121565

4,771 posts

233 months

Friday 10th April 2015
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If one starts with a "full tank", maybe? wink

LOLed at the comments about a spaceship upthread... And nobody has commented on how rubbish the tea is at 5000ft 'cos the kettle boils at a fair bit below 100C getmecoat . With scensoredt allegedly spread across every last surface of the caravan or camper, though, I'd think the poor quality of the tea is last on anyone's list of things to complain about rofl !

But one's chemical toilet won't be committing chemi-khazi in one's camper or caravan under such circumstances in the general scheme of things, unless one tops it up at sea level then closes it and drives up to 5000ft in short order - it's not like the dam flap at the base of the pan is hermetically sealed or anything nuts .

Buff Mchugelarge

3,316 posts

150 months

Friday 10th April 2015
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poing said:
Well if ever there was an advert for staying in a hotel it's this! Actually, no it's the fact that caravaners even know this stuff! Buy a caravan and not only do you get the joy of emptying your st you also have the fun of being able to poke it around with a knife, a knife you will later be using to spread butter on your toast no doubt. fking caravanning is clearly for the clinically insane, mental the lot of them!
laugh

Ilovejapcrap

3,281 posts

112 months

Friday 10th April 2015
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This may be the best thread and indeed op question I have ever seen.


LewG

1,358 posts

146 months

Saturday 11th April 2015
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FourWheelDrift said:
miniman said:
Peace of mind I'm sure, especially if you have elderly relatives on board.
I've never eaten Dundee Cake since.
Good to see a few references to the Saniflow 33. Waterway to have a good time.

red_slr

17,227 posts

189 months

Saturday 11th April 2015
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I have had this happen in the UK - not explosive to the point of going up the walls but had to nip for a pee, filled the bowl and forgot to put the lid down before moving the leaver... resulting toilet "fart" sent a nice shower of p*ss flying all over me. You only make that mistake once!

Fartgalen

6,637 posts

207 months

Saturday 11th April 2015
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More fermentation than altitude I think.

22Rgt

3,575 posts

127 months

Saturday 11th April 2015
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Carrying around your own tank of faeces while it ferments at varying temperature is the very reason most caravans and caravanners smell pretty rank...

Leicester Loyal

4,544 posts

122 months

Saturday 11th April 2015
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22Rgt said:
Carrying around your own tank of faeces while it ferments at varying temperature is the very reason most caravans and caravanners smell pretty rank...
Of course they dorolleyes

DanielSan

18,786 posts

167 months

Saturday 11th April 2015
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daytona365 said:
Indeed, the principle is right, but surely you'd have to drive your caravan to the summit of Everest for even a possibility of this happening.....................They don't do they ??
You're never safe, there's a caravan waiting to hold you up no matter where the fk you go.

markcoznottz

7,155 posts

224 months

Saturday 11th April 2015
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It's enough to send you round the bend.....

98elise

26,547 posts

161 months

Saturday 11th April 2015
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22Rgt said:
Carrying around your own tank of faeces while it ferments at varying temperature is the very reason most caravans and caravanners smell pretty rank...
Ironic for someone who claims to be in the SAS. Don't you lot drink your own piss?

kev b

2,715 posts

166 months

Saturday 11th April 2015
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If this really is true then conversely if you descend to sea level from high altitude you could be in real danger of being drawn into the toilet by the vacuum created, probably.

grumbledoak

31,532 posts

233 months

Saturday 11th April 2015
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Hmmm. Caravanning is more revolting than previously thought. I suppose that counts as learning something today, but it isn't going to make the top ten.

Mr Tidy

22,310 posts

127 months

Saturday 11th April 2015
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poing said:
Well if ever there was an advert for staying in a hotel it's this! Actually, no it's the fact that caravaners even know this stuff! Buy a caravan and not only do you get the joy of emptying your st you also have the fun of being able to poke it around with a knife, a knife you will later be using to spread butter on your toast no doubt. fking caravanning is clearly for the clinically insane, mental the lot of them!
Thanks for that - brilliant!
I am less than busy at work today and you have just brightened up my day no end - probably lucky nobody else is here or they would wonder what I was laughing at!

red_slr

17,227 posts

189 months

Saturday 11th April 2015
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Fartgalen said:
More fermentation than altitude I think.
Perhaps but we only ever did short trips and did not "number 2" in the van and we were up in the hills in wales - either way - the back blow was a lesson in how not to do it.