You're right Edward: the more dangly the bits, the better chance they
will be knocked off.

To arrive at camp with an empty drinking water tank might be upsetting.

-- RJS

On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 21:12 -0400, Edward Maglott wrote:

> What pops to mind is that a permanent install would hang down and
> possible get hit by something and break the tank outlet or the tank
> itself.  How about something that would fit the inside of that
> drain?  Like a rubber stopper you would jam up in there, which would
> have a hose coming out of it and a shutoff on the end of that.  If
> that proves to not be secure enough, a bail or two that swings down
> to hold the stopper up into the outlet would be good.  You would have
> to do a quicko-change-o at the campsite but you could catch what you
> lost in your bucket to re-use it for washing up or whatever.
>
> If you need to fill a bucket in a hurry for a fire, just taking the
> cap off and putting it back on when the bucket is almost full is not
> as hard as it sounds.  Not for me anyway.  Try it.  Another idea for
> the shower would be to have a hose that snakes down the fill port
> into the tank.
>
> Now that I think about it... I hear the drain cap is the same as the
> washer bottle.  Probably the same as the washer bottle on millions of
> 80's VWs.  you could get a couple to experiment with gluing a fitting
> or valve to one of those
>
> Edward  (full of ideas tonight.)
>
> At 08:41 PM 6/19/2011, you wrote:
> >Say that a fellow was looking to replace the standard drinking water
> >tank's drain plug with a fitting that provided a, say, male garden hose
> >bib fitting along with a shutoff valve ... does such a thing exist?
> >
> >I ask because I was camping in the Oregon high desert this weekend and
> >was thinking (A) about a quick way to fill a bucket with water from the
> >Westy's drinking water tank in case of a campsite fire without dumping
> >the whole tank of water (I live in an arid environment so I worry about
> >every drop of spilled water); and (2) that the drain outlet on the water
> >tank could be a useful place to tap into a reservoir for a campsite
> >shower system.
> >
> >So to replace the Westy water tank's drain plug with a fitting that has
> >a valve and some kind of standard hose fitting would be swell.
> >
> >-- RJS