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Title: 1978 sales brochure 'therinasan BL" $699 ??
Post by: StevenOrlando on May 15, 2015, 11:40:43 am
I did a quick search on eBay for Foretravel items and saw a sales brochure with this description for an expensive option in 1978. It's hard to make out the word but it could be "therinasan BL"  or "thenaasan BL"    for a whopping $699. That represents 1% of the entire coach so whatever it was, it was coveted.  Ideas?
Title: Re: 1978 sales brochure 'therinasan BL" $699 ??
Post by: Michelle on May 15, 2015, 12:11:16 pm
I did a quick search on eBay for Foretravel items and saw a sales brochure with this description for an expensive option in 1978. It's hard to make out the word but it could be "therinasan BL"  or "thenaasan BL"    for a whopping $699.

Thetford Thermasan waste destruction system.  Used coach exhaust to incinerate waste.  "BL" probably indicated it was for the black tank contents.
Title: Re: 1978 sales brochure 'therinasan BL" $699 ??
Post by: toyman on May 15, 2015, 12:48:47 pm
I had a Thermasan on an FMC coach I had, worked fine. If you drove enough you never had to dump your black tank & back in the olden days (B4 the drought out west) you dumped the gray as you saw fit.
Title: Re: 1978 sales brochure 'therinasan BL" $699 ??
Post by: George on May 15, 2015, 03:20:55 pm
Just do not park down wind from it, I know.
Title: Re: 1978 sales brochure 'therinasan BL" $699 ??
Post by: Roland Begin on May 15, 2015, 03:26:16 pm
Thetford Thermasan waste destruction system.  Used coach exhaust to incinerate waste.  "BL" probably indicated it was for the black tank contents.
Not sure I'd want to be behind a coach burning sh#t while going down the road. :o  :o

Roland
Title: Re: 1978 sales brochure 'therinasan BL" $699 ??
Post by: toyman on May 15, 2015, 04:25:29 pm
Kinda like a Diesel, improper setup and it may run a little rich !
Title: Re: 1978 sales brochure 'therinasan BL" $699 ??
Post by: Gary Bouland (RIP) on May 15, 2015, 05:02:52 pm
I had that system on a 82 Travco, finally corroded so bad that it could not be used. Simple operation, going down the road you pushed a button, all the stuff went thru a macerator and out the exhaust pipe.  With a Dodge 440 Engine there was enough heat to incinerate and vaporize all of it. Doubt that modern EPA regs would approve.
Gary B
Title: Re: 1978 sales brochure 'therinasan BL" $699 ??
Post by: Tim Fiedler on May 15, 2015, 05:31:21 pm
Not to be too graphic, but urine is amazingly corrosive
Title: Re: 1978 sales brochure 'therinasan BL" $699 ??
Post by: bogeygolfer on May 15, 2015, 09:44:46 pm
You know, this could get the award for the most unexpected topic ever.  Never in my wildest dreams did I think of blowing turds through the tailpipe!  LOL