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i put a ups tracking number into google and it spit out two results: the ups tracking website, and Side Waste Outlet, Free-Standing Cabinet, Pivoting Toilet, Rectangular Lavatory
i have never seen anything so arresting in my life. imagine deploying this thing when someone else is in the room. being in there for like two hours and then someone opens this cabinet. the sudden revelation. the shift in power dynamic. i think you could die.
the fucking noise i just made upon seeing this wasn’t remotely human
The absolute faith that you have to have in that rotating seal THAT YOUR SHIT WATER IS FLOWING THROUGH. Unreal.
listen i never want to Actually but have you ever looked at how a normal toilet connects to the Shit Removal Network
a lump of beeswax is involved
are you shitting us?
wouldnt they use something like siliconeputty (or whatever you anglophones call SANITÄRSILIKON [i have no idea whether that could be used, geniune question: really beeswax? {sorry about my bad parenthesization problem (im working on it)}]) nowadays?
are we really that backwards?
i can't find anything that lists whether it's genuine beeswax, but it certainly has been at times, and is close enough in any case
https://www.amazon.com/Reinforced-Polyethylene-Toilets-Install-Re-seat/dp/B0989C8K9H
the toilet just. sits. on top. and the wax conforms to it
usually there is also a silicone caulk bead run around the base, but i believe that's really just to prevent water ingress, because if the ring doesn't seal you have bigger problems; water would build up under the toilet and the floor would rot out. it's the wax that really protects you from the Bad Liquid
yeah i seal knife handles with a (clean) toilet ring, it's an incredibly cheap source of basically woodworking wax
That lump of wax is not a bad solution for a watertight and gastight and pooptight seal. The wax molds itself to pretty much whatever shape you need, the excess flows off to the side, it's cheap and it's stable. It doesn't stay in tension and develop cracks like rubber. The main weakness is that it only changes shape squishwards - it won't unsquish to fill a void made by the toilet shifting.
I think that the modern practice of putting silicone under the terlet base is to help ensure that it doesn't rock around. The pipe flange and two bolts are not really enough to keep a user from tilting the toilet on an uneven floor. Silicone works as a gap-fill and a bit of a glue to hold the pedestal in one place.
You know what occurs to me?
This is designed to conceal the toilet. That's its purpose. When the door is closed, it just looks like a normal cabinet.
Imagine opening the cabinet looking for paper towels or something and a fucking toilet swings out at you.
you would feel like you'd been attacked and you'd be right. i have no doubt that in several jurisdictions this is legally considered a booby trap
gravis you buried the lede this thing is for HOSPITALS. i'm sure it's for like good patient care reasons or whatever but ?_?
DOES IT REALLY MATTER WHAT IT'S FOR
IN WHAT SCENARIO WOULD THIS BE LESS ABSURD
being poor and wanting to live out of a van because you don't have anywhere else to live, something like this would be fantastic on space saving. Except I'd (it's me, that's my future) prob want it as a composting one instead (given water is heavy and limited)
ok thinking about this more it actually kind of makes sense, if you have a patient that can't move very far i can see this being significantly more dignified when people are visiting or whatever but still
I've used these in the ER before. They're exactly as pleasant to use as they look.
