Monthly Archives: June 2013
My Husbandly Duties . . .
Jan wanted to be sure that everyone knows that I performed my husbandly duties yesterday.
I painted her toenails.
Get your mind out of the gutter, Nick.
She says I do a better job than the nail salons, and I work cheaper. Well, at least she doesn’t have to tip me.
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I think my Culligan RV-800 RV Water Filter threw up last week.
I’ve used these for several years and really like them better than those blue ones from Wal-Mart. But last week I noticed that both the sink and the toilet had restricted water flow. So today I took the sink pull-out faucet sprayer apart and found the strainer full of carbon granules. And when I ran water out of the hose, I got a few more. So after letting the water run for a while with no more carbon bits, I put everything back together and now it works fine.
Tomorrow I’ll pull the toilet water supply hose off and clean out the strainer there. Hopefully that will fix it too.
I may check out some of the vendors at the Escapade and see what I can find there as a replacement.
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About 11am Jan and I headed over to Famous Dave’s BBQ to have lunch with Mike and Janna Clark. We’ve been reading each other’s blogs for a good while, but this is the first time we’ve had a chance to get together. Janna’s blog is called Tin Teepee/Log Cabin and can also be found in the blog list on the right side of this blog.
It was really amazing how many things we all have in common. Jan and Janna (see, even their names are similar) both worked in the medical field, and like many of the same authors, while Mike and I both used to install satellite dishes commercially. And of course, there’s the whole RV’ing thing too, although they don’t fulltime.
Yet.
Janna and Mike live on a ranch about 100 miles from Billings and come in a couple of times a month. And lucky for us, one of those times matched up with our stay here. We had a great time getting to know them and hopefully we’ll be able to meet up again soon.
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So far I haven’t been able to get my old taillight converter apart. The plastic case is heat-welded together and I’ve sawed on it a while with no luck. It’s possible that it’s a solid epoxy block inside, which usually means they don’t want you to know how simple the circuit really is. We’ll see how it goes tomorrow.
I think I’ll probably end up building one of my own.
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Thought for the Day:
Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer.
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Not Again . . .
Jan and I first stayed here at Billings Trailer Village RV Park in March 2008 on our way to Alaska. When we got here it looked like this.
And this is what Mister thought about snow.
Not so much. He put one paw down in it on the step, then pulled his paw back up and looked at it. Then he refused to budge any further.
Smart cat.
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Under the ‘Not Again’ heading, I noticed on our way up from Cody yesterday that somewhere along the way the toad taillights stopped working. So this morning I first used the toad taillight test box that I built this past March.
Using the test box showed that the toad lights are working fine. So it was time to check out the rig side of things. I went inside and turned on the rig’s headlights and emergency blinkers. Then going back outside, I checked the 4 pin output plug that connects to the toad. It has LED’s built into it that show if the taillight converter module has the correct output. And it showed nothing.
So my next step was to check the fuse in the 12volt line that feeds the module. And it was fine. Then using my auto test light I checked the voltage on wire feeding directly into the module.
These test lights have needle point on it that allows you to poke a tiny hole through the wire insulation and check the voltage.
You connect the alligator clip to a ground and then if you touch voltage with the tip, the light in the handle lights up.
The test light showed that I had power going into the module, and also taillight and blinker signals. But the light showed no output from the module.
So the $40 that I bought 3 months ago is dead. And it’s supposed to be short circuit protected and impossible to kill. Yeah, right!
So now I’ve got to decide what I’m going to do.
Buy another $40 module from U-Haul?
Or find another one from somewhere else?
I’m almost tempted to just build one of my own design. That way if I do have a problem, it’ll be easy to repair. In fact I would like to think that I can design and build one that won’t die so easily.
We’ll see what I come up with.
About 3pm Jan and I headed out to get our hair cut at a Great Clips. Then after that we stopped off at a nearby U-Haul store to check out what else they had in taillight converters.
Answer: Not much.
At 5:30 we met our friend Linda at the Guadalajara Mexican Restaurant that we’ve eaten at in the past. And as before, the food, the company, and the conversation were all great. We didn’t leave the restaurant until after 7:30 because we had a lot of catching up to do.
Tomorrow we’ll be getting together for lunch with other RV friends who live in the area.
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Thought for the Day:
Quality generally outweighs quantity, but quantity sometimes has a quality all its own.
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