Monthly Archives: March 2012
Big Plans . . .
I had big plans for a bunch of stuff I wanted to work on today – check out the toad tail light feed from the rig, clean the rig windshield, run a separate electric cable to be able to run both AC’s on 30 amps, etc.
But what I got done was nothing. Between my inherent laziness and still having a lot of on and off pain in my foot, I pretty much vegged out all day. Jan and I caught up on 5 hours of ‘Justified’ and then worked our way down thru a lot of other programs we’d recorded during the rally and not looked at yet. I even got in a short, but nice nap during the afternoon
NIck and Terry had been doing doctor stuff most of the day, but then called about 4:30 to meet them for dinner, so we decided to try Luckie’s Thai, a Thai – Chinese restaurant pretty close to the fairgrounds.
Checking on Urbanspoon, Luckie’s Thai had uniformly good reviews, but arriving at the restaurant made Jan and I think twice. It was just a nondescript little store in a strip mall near the Fry’s Market and only had about 10 tables.
But as Jan and I waited inside, we saw they had a bustling takeout business, always a good sign.
After Nick and Terry, and Nick’s cousin Bev showed up, we placed our orders, and were very pleasantly surprised when our food started coming out.
It was very, very good. Hot and Sour Soup, Special Fried Rice, and Garlic Chicken, all really good. We all decided right then we would be back.
After our delicious meal, Nick and Terry took Bev home, while Jan and I picked up some things from the Fry’s next door before heading home for the night.
Maybe I’ll be less lazy tomorrow. We’ll see how it goes.
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Thought for the Day:
"The fastest way to get a bad law repealed is to make sure it’s strictly enforced." – Abraham Lincoln
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The Blog is Back–Redux . . .
As I said, our blog suddenly reappeared about 11am this morning. Never heard anything from WordPress about what I had supposedly done, or what the problem was.
I figure someone just pushed the wrong button.
Anyway, about 12:30 I went next door to Nick and Terry’s rig to work on their Splendide Washer/Dryer while Nick is at the doctor. The dryer part had quit working a while back, but because of traveling and then the Yuma rally, I hadn’t had a chance until now to take a look at it.
And, lucky for me, their Splendide was a lot easier to get it out where I could work on it thsn ours was last December. It only took about 30 minutes to get the washer out and the top open.
I had found the Splendide Service Manual awhile back so I started going over the schematic tracing out the circuit. After confirming the master fusible link was good, I check the wires going in and out of the dryer timer switch. and everything looked good there.
My next step was to move upstream and check out how the power feeds into the timer. At this point I put in a call to Westland Sales up in Oregon to double check my reading of the circuit. And as it turns out, it was the door switch as I thought.
Darrell, the tech at Westland, said he seen switches with the wires burnt off. And he was right.
After I pulled the switch out of the edge of the door, I found the bottom connector on the switch melted and the wire connector had fallen off.
Problem found.
I got back on the phone to Westland and got the new switch on the way to us here in Tucson. Darrell did say it was lucky we needed a part he had in stock. He said they don’t make the parts anymore, and he’s completely out of many of them, like the main control board and the water pump. So at some point we’ll no longer be able to repair these units economically.
After finishing up, the rest of the afternoon Jan and I just read and napped, and took it easy.
Then about 5:30 Nick called about dinner, so it was off to Golden Corral for their buffet. After a good meal and conversation we headed back to the rig about 7:30 to round out the day.
On another note, we’ve had nice weather since we’ve been here in Tucson, that’s going to change in the next few days.
So far, it’s been in the low 80’s in the daytime, and mid 40’s a night, but starting Sunday we’ll move into mid 50’s and mid 30’s. Quite a change.
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Thought for the Day:
"The right to be left alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms." – U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
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