Re: An essential spare Forums

BarryandSue

Some years ago, the main seal on our Thetford cassette started to 'cockle' and go wrinkly. This meant that it failed to seal properly, getting progressively worse. I had difficulty then (late '80s) getting a spare in Europe.

So my Top Tip is, before an extensive tour abroad, ensure that your toilet seal is reasonably new, and [u:4568899c05]take a spare seal[/u:4568899c05] with you. You can probably get these seals almost everywhere now, but with Eastern Europe opening up to tourists that may not be the case there. And it's much more convenient to fit a new seal at your leisure, and then shop for a new one, again at your leisure, rather than getting frantic about the non-sealing 'bog', particularly if you have young children.

As an adjunct, I can recall one of my (then young) sons helping me to carry and empty a rather over-full cassette with the leaking seal. We were trying to keep it level (for the obvious reason!) and me earnestly exhorting him to "Keep your end UP!" in strangled falsetto tones!! Disgracefully un-British in the middle of an Italian campsite.

Anonymous

Top tip indeed!

And where, pray, may us interweb mortals procure said seal online?

BarryandSue

The seals should be available from any caravan/motorcaravan/boat dealer/chandler, but try here:-

http://www.waudbys.co.uk/about.html

for an online service. I haven't used them, so any eventual feedback on how good or indifferent they are would benefit us all.

Anonymous

hi, when you have changed your seal. wash the old one and let it sit in some clean water and you will find it is as good as new within about a week's time and then you can reuse it. save's keep forking out for new one's all the time.
pete Smile

BarryandSue

Brilliant! I've always thrown the things away. When you re-use them, do they not quickly become cockled again?

Anonymous

Can't see any seals on that waudbys site, Barry. Plenty of dolphins, sure - but no seals!

Laughing

Do you have a direct link to the bit with the seals? Otherwise I've sent them an enquiry email.

Nice one!

Dave

BarryandSue

If you go right to the bottom of their Home Page, there are some site links in blue. The last-but-one link is "Spare Parts". Sort out your cassette model no., and the part no. of the seal (arf! arf!) which is on the illustration at the back of the instruction book (if you have it), and e-mail them the query.

Good luck!

Barry

MOTORHOMER

[quote:5e118e20d0="camperpete"]hi, when you have changed your seal. wash the old one and let it sit in some clean water and you will find it is as good as new within about a week's time and then you can reuse it. save's keep forking out for new one's all the time.
pete Smile

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Ummmm

Motorhomer

Anonymous

[quote:a09ba811e7="BarryandSue"] I can recall one of my (then young) sons helping me to carry and empty a rather over-full cassette with the leaking seal. We were trying to keep it level (for the obvious reason!) and me earnestly exhorting him to "Keep your end UP!" in strangled falsetto tones!! Disgracefully un-British in the middle of an Italian campsite.[/quote:a09ba811e7]

Nothing worse than walking with the dreaded green slime trickling out, down your bare leg and leaving a trail Embarassed

definately not "kool"

Jim

sizeyuk

Many years ago when caravanning for the first time we staggered across the large campsite in the dead of night with the porta potty balanced on one of those thingies used for carrying suitecases, the thing kept falling off, eventually it buckled, so my husband carried the by now messy porta potty in his arms, we laughed so much as he carried it and needless to say he was very blue by the time we got it to the emptying point, Laughing

the following day we noticed that everyone put there porta potties into the back of the car and drove them to the emptying point, this was in the days before Cassette toilets which are much less cumbersome to move. We still laugh about it today, you can imagin some of our comments. Rolling Eyes