Portable / dockside pumpout MI????????????
09-11-2013, 12:07 PM
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Motorhomes are gravity dumps - pull the gate valve and physics handles the rest...
09-12-2013, 05:51 PM
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The shop vac thing is not as terrible as it sounds. As long as you have some treatment in the tank neutralizing bacteria and odor; you should be fine. Fill the tank with fresh water through flushing the head, and suck out the full tank. Then dump the shop vac out in the woods somewhere; and clean with fresh water and Lysol. I've done it a number of times with no issues. Just make sure you pull the dry filter out of the shop vac first.
09-13-2013, 02:05 PM
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However, go to the camping section in Wal*Mart and get some of the porta-potty treatment. I buy this stuff that is bright orange, and thick like a syrup. It neutralizes the odors of the holding tank. Once I empty and flush the tank, I fill it back up with a little water, and the treatment, via pouring it in the bowl and flushing it. If you are not in the water to pull water sea-water in for the flush, just pour 1/2 of a bottled water in the toilet and flush with the treatment. Spray the bowl down after every use. You are not going to hurt anything.
I keep a can of Lysol in a locker in the head of the boat. I normally give a good blast throughout the whole bowl and entire head each day I'm on the water as preventative scent maintenance.
