'Stone'
Unlikely after drinking the silicone lubricant!

Apparently they put signs like these in the universities now for the benefit of some foreign students who are not used to western toilets. However you never see signs above bidets to stop us Brits from washing our feet!

Hi Amanda I've just viewed your website (yep a bloke looking at knitting actually I was showing it to Mrs Agger) that is truly amazing and very clever, wifey is in shock as she knits for help 4 heroes and has donated about £1000 over 3 years mostly baby clothes etc nothing like you, but she is envious

Thanks very much. I'm afraid it is an obsession. I've a low boredom threshold, so I need to do something that changes colours a lot - also am incapable of following a pattern without great difficulty! I really admire all the charitable knitting that goes on (and there is a lot going on all over the world). Maybe I should think about raffling a picture - although it would be embarrassing if no-one bought tickets!

Oopsy Dometic (see what I did there)

Low boredom threshold as in don't like knittting the same colour row after row!

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When I had to buy a new blade for mine I also bought a special can of Thetford seal lubricant.

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I stripped mine down yesterday, cleaned the seal and the blade thoroughly, lubricated the seal with olive oil as stated in Thetford instructions and put it all back together.

I couldn't see how to remove or replace the blade though. The seal is the circular rubber gasket easily accessed by removing eight screws in the top of the unit but how do you replace the blade?

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There is an article in this months Caravan Club magazine for those who have reached a certain age but are not yet toilet trained

We (meaning SWMBO) have been cured of our habit of leaving just a little pinky water in the bowl after a Pyrenees trip. After several hours and metres higher in elevation she had use the loo. Pow! No p** or
pink water left in the bowl, and a good deal of kitchen paper used to clean up (SWBO and the loo compt)

Now we open the slide valve of the dry bowl before each performance, a quick squirt to lube the sides of the bowl, and finallyflush after the closing movements of the performance!

I have to admit to failing miserably with the toilet, and we hardly use it! (night & wee wees only lol). When departing one day, the other half asked me to flush a bit of water to reduce the tank a tad. Well I did, but forgot to open the flap, so when he pulled the cassette out the maybe two litres of water gushed into the plastic box thingy. My question is, why isn't the plastic box thingy watertight?! Some of it seeped under the toilet floor and into the caravan. A roll of kitchen paper later all was well but we only half fill it now - we move around a lot so is a waste of chemicals aside from the risk of me flooding the joint!! What with the fact that as I am so tall, I cant actually use the toilet and then lean back to flush it without the door being open, I think maybe we should have gone for an Eriba without the toilet!

the title of this thread still makes me giggle
although serious issue if things go not to plan .

blue yonder can you attach a piano hinge? all the way down door and panel?
on a family member caravan hinges were no good very thin, the panel that supported the door wobbled!, we ended up attaching a thin strip of metal to the panel (sourced at diy place) to attach the piano hinge to, made a much securer job. door didn't cause any more issues.. it didn't look to bad either

the loo gosh cant believe even going to say this.
after performing task, stand to rearrange oneself, closing dust lid on way/as soon as stand, then open the flap, a quick peek under dust cover decides on flush performance
then close flap till almost fully home
if flap slightly open the collector/ grey waste tank wont pull out.flap has to be fully shut. so this stops the flush flooding in our case.

All this of course would be much easier and less prone to accidents happening if one opened the flap before commencement of the exercise followed by flushing on completion before finally closing the flap and going back to bed.