New Kwikee Heavy Duty Slide makes Thetford Porta Potti more convenient

July 27, 2011

For those of you who are familiar with The Turtle V and its European-style Tortuga Expedition Camper, you may recall that to maximize use of space, the shower and Thetford Porta Potti are in the doorway, a space that is always there. The Porta Potti simply slides out when needed. The problem was that the sliding drawer tracks were far underrated. The solution was to replace them with a Kwikee heavy-duty slide with ball-bearing action. The new slide has a 350-lb capacity. I hope we never weigh that much 🙂 Jeff Paddock at Nautilus, (www.nautilusconstruction.com), in La Pine, OR did the complicated retrofit. To folks who question the idea of not having a 3-foot X 3-foot X 6-foot room to pull your pants up a couple times a day, we say: “If you’re traveling in third-world countries for months or years in a small camper, and you can’t go to the bathroom in front of the person you’re traveling with, you may have more problems than we can cover here.”