hot water shower

Post by **Stoknisan** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:19 pm

Hi all,

Looking at installing my own hot water shower ( similar to glind, twine etc).

Just wondering if anyone else has done this, and what pump they have used. Currently the kits are going for $450+, I think I can do it for around the $ 290 mark.

Any thoughts or experiences appreciated

Post by **Bitsamissin** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:29 pm

One of the best things for camping I have bought (besides the Engel).
Me and a mate went halves in an Autoshower the portable one in the suitcase. We both have the snaplock fittings on each of our trucks.
Works brilliantly.....................
I can get a 7 min shower from a 25ltr jerry can, more than enough for comprehensive de-crustification after numerous rechid grog bogs

Using the hand throttle set at 1700rpm the water temp is perfect.
From memory we paid about $300 Ea about 5 years ago.

Post by **MissDrew** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:49 pm

I have a twine on my 80 and it is the BEST money I have spent.

Set the temp on the dash to hot, idiol at 850-900rpm and its hot. Go up to 950rpm and you can not stand under it.

But its even good for when its washup time, all I do it drop the pickup in the bucket aswell as the shower head and just let it run threw til the water is hot enough for dishes.

For the ease of just buying a kit and bolting it all up I couldn`t be bothered with making 1. The dearest part will be the pump. YOu can just make a container that holds water and run some piping threw it that has the rad water flowing threw that.

Post by **MissDrew** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:50 pm

Oh and I can shower with 10lts of water, women need about 20 because they just have to wash there bloody hair every night

Post by **Podge** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:03 pm

I hadn't had much to do with under bonnet showers until last April when I helped out my brother (he owns Twine 4WD Showers) to promote Twine at the Caravan, Camping and 4WD Show-Rosehill. Absolutely brilliant product and well thought out in the way you can adjust the temp via revs and/or dash temperature. The Twine heat excahnger is the best in respect that it's an all copper unit, where as the others have a plastic casing. It costs more but is well worth it long term.

Post by **outlaw** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:28 pm

so these things are better than the coleman portable units? how come?

Post by **BundyRumandCoke** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:30 pm

I saw recently that BCF have the glind heat exchangers for sale on their own for less than $200. Go and get a 12v inline or even a bilge pump, and a small shower rose, and you should get out of it for less than about $250

Post by **RockyF75** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:36 pm

Pff, pansies, may as well stay in a hotel

I got a $25 stupidcheap one. Boil a billy, and tip it in a jerry can along with the pickup, plug the other end into the 12v plug. Done

Post by **PJ.zook** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 6:22 am

Podge wrote:I hadn't had much to do with under bonnet showers until last April when I helped out my brother (he owns Twine 4WD Showers) to promote Twine at the Caravan, Camping and 4WD Show-Rosehill. Absolutely brilliant product and well thought out in the way you can adjust the temp via revs and/or dash temperature. The Twine heat excahnger is the best in respect that it's an all copper unit, where as the others have a plastic casing. It costs more but is well worth it long term.

You do realise youre now obliged to supply us all with twine units at mates rates cost price dont ya.

Post by **Podge** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 7:42 am

PJ.zook wrote:
Podge wrote:I hadn't had much to do with under bonnet showers until last April when I helped out my brother (he owns Twine 4WD Showers) to promote Twine at the Caravan, Camping and 4WD Show-Rosehill. Absolutely brilliant product and well thought out in the way you can adjust the temp via revs and/or dash temperature. The Twine heat excahnger is the best in respect that it's an all copper unit, where as the others have a plastic casing. It costs more but is well worth it long term.
You do realise youre now obliged to supply us all with twine units at mates rates cost price dont ya.

My brother woudn't even supply me a unit at "mates rates" for my own vehicle.

Post by **V8 Middy** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:49 pm

BundyRumandCoke wrote:I saw recently that BCF have the glind heat exchangers for sale on their own for less than $200. Go and get a 12v inline or even a bilge pump, and a small shower rose, and you should get out of it for less than about $250

Don't Jaycar have a cheap shower pump kit??

Post by **azzad** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 5:44 am

V8 Middy wrote:
BundyRumandCoke wrote:I saw recently that BCF have the glind heat exchangers for sale on their own for less than $200. Go and get a 12v inline or even a bilge pump, and a small shower rose, and you should get out of it for less than about $250
Don't Jaycar have a cheap shower pump kit??

Yup $20 when on sale, I got one with the intention of hooking it up to a heat exchanger but havent done it yet. The best heat exchagers i could find where here

http://www.helton.com.au/hot%20water%20system.htm

It just happens that is the exact pump and shower head I got from Jaycar

Post by **bogged** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 3:52 pm

Diggity..

So what are people using
Still Glind or Twine??

Anyone using tghe piranha power shower at all?

Post by **MattGU** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:07 pm

I have a power shower, bought it because it was listed here unused and cheap. It works well, maybe a bit faster to heat water than my mates glind (maybe). The heat exchanger did develop a leak from the coolant side to the shower water side. Piranha replaced it no questions asked just shipped the old one back the sent me a new one overnight.

Matt

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