Besides, you don't want to install anything but the original threaded
plug anyway.  It's metric (34 or 35mm depending on the tank installed)
and nothing in the USA is compatible anyway - you'll bugger up the
threads and it may never seal properly again. BTDT
-- 
Jim Thompson
84 GL 1.9 "Gloria"
84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt"
72 411 Station Wagon "Pug"
75 914 1.8 "Nancy"
Full Timing Since March 1999
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On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Rocket J Squirrel
<camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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