Up Close and Personal with a Kilgore 109 Toilet

Shot over seven years ago. I had almost forgotten about this particular clip. This goes into a slow-motion 're-play' first and then shows the actual flush.

The tissue is completely soaked through by the time the flush begins, and therefore gives it a little more weight so that it falls below the surface of the water during the flush. Also, the tissue nearly-instantly is compressed from a square to an elongated shape by the swish action of the rim jets.

The undertow and start of the siphonic action in the bowl works to just barely tug down at one end of the tissue. With one more twirl, that end of the tissue--being pulled in by the beginning suction and pushed by the Kilgore's powerful siphon-jet -- very quickly disappears up the trapway. The rest of the tissue flies upward inside the back of the toilet as we see it disappear in the 'mouth' of the trapway.

The toilet gurgles mightily as the siphon is broken, having sucked down its 'prey'. ;-)

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• kilgore
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• tissue

[bluetheta]

That was nice; we gotten a new toilet in the summer (old one cracked and leaked); I was here for the install, and it felt nice as I got to feel it before it was put into "service". I will post a video when I can get a chance. It is nice that you are posting again. BTW: did you get the messages I sent several month agao?

[FerdinandMagellan08]

Good video. I found a round front model back in the summer sitting on a curb. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get it in time. There was a trash pickup crew coming the opposite was and they threw it in the truck before I could get out of the truck