battenberg

battenberg

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I was away wild camping bank holiday in wales with a couple of other cars, one of the guys had a 'Hozelock Flower Shower' garden pressure sprayer, filled it half full of cold water and half full of boiling water and used it as a shower... genius.. it works a treat!!!

Needless to say for 12quid I now have one on order, and as it takes 5 litres of water, my kelly kettle takes 2 1/2 litres... it's the perfect marriage..!

Food for thought for any of you overlanders...
 
you mean something like this:

[ame=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hozelock-Ltd-Porta-Flower-Shower/dp/B000PBUFHC]Hozelock Porta Flower Shower: Amazon.co.uk: Garden & Outdoors[/ame]

?

Looks interesting as you build up pressure with the hand pump hmmm :)
Nice Idea...
Perhaps... Why not get one of those house water pressure tanks and plug a compressor to it, since I should have one for tyres already... and just pressurise air in it which pushes water out since water can't compress ;-)

J
 
yes that's the one...

look at the sprayer end, it has a rose like a shower, not a long lance like most of them have...
 
are you sure your kelly kettle is 2.5 litres not 2.5 pints?

Just a thought! dont want you getting your ratios wrong :D

G
 
ring automotive do a shower pump (looks like its from the 70s) it comes with a cigar lighter plug and will also run on D cell batteries, a bloke at work just bought one
 
Griffdowg said:
are you sure your kelly kettle is 2.5 litres not 2.5 pints?

Just a thought! dont want you getting your ratios wrong :D

G
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Doh:doh: Griff, you're absolutley right..!
I guess i'll have to play about with ratios before my next big trip..:D
 
Booger have you ever used one of them Solar showers?

I personally think they are ****e. If your on the move they dont heat up. You have to leave them set-up at camp. You cant drive around with them on the roof hopeing they will heat up. IF the Sahara sun cant heat it on the move, nothing will!

G
 
Those solar showers are rubbish, they just dont work. they are a faf to use, take ages to heat up, then you've got to hang it somewhere to let gravity do it's work...
What I like about the pressure sprayer idea, is it's simplicity. Ok it's a bit baulky, but no motors or batteries or wires... heat up some water, put it in the bottle, pressurise and way you go, simple locking on/off valve on the head.
 
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O Bollocks, I was working on the assumption that a water bag on the roof would heat up while driving, I've never used one of those solar showers...

Back to the drawing board then, thanks for saving me some time!

Okay I have found someone elses drawing board that I like :

http://www.campertrailers.org/water_heater.htm
 
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if you've got a roofrack you could strap on one of those plumbers pipe tubes, seal up the ends, put a filler and a drain tap on it, paint it black and fill it full of water.
 
Booger said:
portable gas water heater for hot showers when camping
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Very interesting idea... My only concern would be having a gas water heater rattling in the trunk of the car... I have 2 of these in my house back in Italy... and they are not built TOUGH. They do appear delicate... and my concern is that rattling on offroad/dirt/gravel might cause gas pipes to come loose, which is a danger! I would think that an electric heater running off an Inverter is MUCH LESS efficient, but MUCH MORE secure... i.e. I would never house a gas heater in the back of my car for hose reasons...

Just my thoughts...

Jonathan
 
Well my 'flower shower' arrived and I did a quick test at home.
2 1/2 pints (the capacity of my kelly kettle) of boiling water on top of cold to bring it up to level, gives a good temperature, and when pumped up to the recommended pressure gave just over 5 mins of continious shower water... Which would obviously last a lot longer if you stop and start it...

On my next overland trip; I wont be carrying any inverters, gas bottles or gimmick 12v pumps for the sake of having a wash!
 
ac3bf1 said:
Very interesting idea... My only concern would be having a gas water heater rattling in the trunk of the car... I have 2 of these in my house back in Italy... and they are not built TOUGH. They do appear delicate... and my concern is that rattling on offroad/dirt/gravel might cause gas pipes to come loose, which is a danger! I would think that an electric heater running off an Inverter is MUCH LESS efficient, but MUCH MORE secure... i.e. I would never house a gas heater in the back of my car for hose reasons...

Just my thoughts...

Jonathan
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Yes that makes total sense, however I have found a more robust system that would take up less space than a flower shower. It's at Scorpion Racing in the roofrack accesories section, and looks like this.

Obviously you would already have a cylinder for cooking, and you would only connect the gas when having a shower.

Wheat2.jpg


Obviously the flower shower still has the edge in terms of simplicty, but when I have been spraying weeds with a pump up sprayer I seem to remember doing loads of pumping...

Battenberg am I right in assuming that 5 minutes continious water was without additional pumping ???
 
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Scrapiron have ceased trading. The company has been wound up by the the Offacial receever.. But the website is/was still operational and taking peoples money without sending anything out. the Prick that ran Scrapiron and it's several Fraudulant revivals is now running some sort of Motorcycle parts/import company.
 
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