How about airplane toilets?

Ballvalve · Jan 7, 2011

If we want to go to a 3 ounce flush with a clean bowl that will flush your underwear too, why not design an airline type flush mechanism, using water instead of that gel?

You would have to plumb the shower and sink in front of it to carry it off, likely.

I would make it out of plastic; no shipping issues, and a godzilla to install.

If 400 people on a plane can hear you flush a toilet, why worry about the kids and guests at home?

I think the first guy that thinks outside the porcelin box is going to be the new Bill Gates.

Terry · Jan 7, 2011

In 1998 I was selling loud toilets. It was hard to get anyone to buy a second bowl. Then I found a brand that was quieter, and sales took off.

When has loud and obnoxious ever been a selling point?
Only an engineer would think like that, and every time I get on an airplane it reminds me of how little engineers think of standard comfort items the rest of us take for granted.

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hj · Jan 7, 2011

RV toilets work like the kickstarter on a motorcycle, so they are quiet and effective, but how many people would want them in their houses?

Ballvalve · Jan 7, 2011

Seems like population will require us to make some hard choices in the future. Would it not be better to have a loud flush than a 1 gallon shower? or bathtubs with a 20 gallon limit?

And there seems to be no reason why the NEW plastic toilet that uses 3 or 8 ounces need be loud and obnoxious. It could use high pressure spray nozzles to wash the bowl. I think in the future electricity will be easier for us to make than water. And that Toto butt washer can share the same outlet.

Why not an upgraded, full size "rv" toilet?

Arfeller · Jan 7, 2011

You'll have to pry my TotoUltramax toilet with washlet seat out of my cold dead hands! : )

Ballvalve · Jan 8, 2011

Maybe you can get a 8 ounce flush toto eco-eco-eco ultramax in the future. And the buttwashers will likely fall outside the future reg's.

Arfeller · Jan 8, 2011

Actually, end up using less water with washlet, better hygiene, and more healthy. They are not going anywhere.

Ian Gills · Jan 8, 2011

Every time I fly it's Toto in the business class lounge (which flushes before I'm done) and it doesn't get much better on the plane.

I love to be home instead. Where it's Standard.

American Standard.

Terry · Jan 8, 2011

Arfeller,
The other guys just have a hard time understanding that washing with water thing. I wash my hands with water too. And it doesn't seem a bit strange.

How about airplane toilets?

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