Thetford Electra Magic Recirculating Toilet

[walt c]

Ladies and Gentleman,
Does anyone out there have any experience with the Thetford recirculating toilet?(model 80) I've heard that their great,and,I've heard that they suck! Anyone with experience with them please comment...thanks!...walt..tulsa,ok

[Aerowood]

We have one in the C-130 that I crew on, I hate it, I hate carrying the thing to a toilet to dump, and I think that it stinks. This is a very biased opinion though as I would rather have something with a holding tank that a truck pulls up to to dump like an airliner. Did I mention that I hate carrying it around trying to find a toilet to dump it in. By the way the people that have made the decision not to retrofit the aircraft with a airline style toilet are not the ones who have to dump it.

Now that I think about it we might not be talking about the same toilet, Oh well, I got the rant out of my system.

[Aerowood]

I just looked it up and this is what we use. See above post for rant.

[jimmini]

Originally Posted by Aerowood

We have one in the C-130 that I crew on, I hate it, I hate carrying the thing to a toilet to dump, and I think that it stinks. This is a very biased opinion though as I would rather have something with a holding tank that a truck pulls up to to dump like an airliner. Did I mention that I hate carrying it around trying to find a toilet to dump it in. By the way the people that have made the decision not to retrofit the aircraft with a airline style toilet are not the ones who have to dump it.

Now that I think about it we might not be talking about the same toilet, Oh well, I got the rant out of my system.

When I was in the USAF the first one to use the crapper can was the one that had to empty it.
Retrofit! Last I remember was $600 government toilet seats.
Looks like I just hijacked the crapper can thread SORRY.