Obtain a wooden toilet seat, not plastic and place it on top of the plastic bucket mentioned earlier. Use a pencil or fine felt pen to trace the inside face of the bucket onto the underside of your toilet seat. By flipping the seat over you will see exactly where to screw the wooden blocks, wooden dowel 1" lengths or whatever you decide to hold your seat centered over the bucket to the inside of the line you have drawn. Properly placed blocks will hold the toilet seat centered over the wag bag in your bucked. The weigh of the the occupant will hold the seat in place on the bucket. It is possible to also rig up latch to said positioning blocks to active lock them in place on the center of your bucket if you find that necessary. I used some scraps of "Kingboard" a type of high density plastic available at some boat equipment stores, out of which to fashion the blocks. It was then a matter of drilling a hole in each and using a screw that was about 3/4 inch longer than the thickness of the board to fasten it to the underside of the seat. I have a Monty 17. I do not know what the height beneath the seat of a Monty 15 is so clearances might be tight. <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=icon> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=link> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 1:06 PM Gail Russell <gail@zeliga.com> wrote:
How do you rig the regular toilet seat to snap on and off?
On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 11:03 AM Thomas Buzzi <thomaspbuzzi@gmail.com> wrote:
Potti time, I adapted a 3.5 gallon plastic bucked to accept a standard toilet seat from the plumber supply store. I use "wag bags" inside of it. They work fine with no odors and are disinfected. I found that the used "wagbag" can be closed and left inside the bucket for future disposal ashore of chemically treated waste and there was ample room for new wag bags to be placed in above the used and closed one. Ashore I simply remove the snap on seat, and carry the bucket with handle ashore and dump the innocuous waste into a hopper. Living on a boat for even a short while requires that all one's bodily processes be allow for. Fair winds, Tom B
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On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 11:44 AM John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net> wrote:
How complicated it's become... :-) My grandpa was a commercial fisherman "back in the day." The toilet on his 46 ft. troller (built in 1946) was an empty 5-gallon steel bucket that originally held hydraulic fluid (the predecessor to the now plastic 5-gal buckets). It was stored in a gear locker on the starboard aft side of the house. The locker was large enough to sit inside...just barely, with foulies hanging above and rubber boots below. There was a toilet seat to put on the rim. The bucket was of course simply emptied overboard and rinsed with saltwater.
cheers, John
On 8/11/19 9:27 AM, Dave Scobie wrote:
The hull liner on the M15 was designed for the older, like 1980s older, Thetford and similar potties. Jerry says that the first M15s have even a smaller space as the potti he fit the mold for was discontinued just after he began selling the boats. He says he did modify the mold to fit the new potti size ... though I've never been able to confirm Jerry's assertion by measurements early M15's with later build boats.
My M15 had a Thetford 235 that fit exactly perfect (picture attached).
DON'T go by model number alone as Thetford has changed the design over the years getting a bit bigger each time it seems. Thetford then 'recycles' model numbers. The latest is the 260 (will NOT fit) has been changed to 135 (same 260 potti just different stenciling). The older 90s & 00s 135 can be made to fit using hot water and forming the base to the M15's potti space.
For 'wag bag' systems find a 2.5(-ish) gallon bucket that has the same diameter as a 5-gallon bucket. There are snap-on seats that will use the 'wag bag' bags. The 2.5 gallon buckets are shirt enough to fit in the M15's potti space.
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On Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 9:42 PM Rusty Knorr via montgomery_boats < montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
2. Toilet time. Granted, the Monty has a place for a Portapotty,
but I use
wagbags and I could NOT find a comfortable position to sit and use the head with the Fold-To-Go portable toilet I brought. Maybe I can retool this system, but so far it’s not working. What specific Portapotty fits in an M-15? The one I have is too big at the base, and I don’t think I would want to use one anyway, wagbags are great in my opinion.
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