Monthly Archives: June 2016
More Rig Repairs . . .
One thing really nice about this site is that unlike our two previous sites in the ‘A; circle, we’ve had absolutely no problems with low voltage here. In fact, it rarely goes under 120 volts even in the heat of the day with both AC’s running.
If you remember from when we were here before, we were seeing voltages as low as 105 volts, with momentarily drops below 103, which would kick out our Progressive EMS (Electrical Management System). They’ve definitely got a problem in that area.
Today I thought I’d go back over some more of my repairs.
While we were gate guarding last fall, the flush pedal on our Sealand toilet broke. At first I thought it was the Spring Cartridge, but it turned out to the pedal shaft.
The edges of the plastic square shaft (the black one above) had rounded off over the last 5 years, so when you stepped on the flush pedal, it just rotated inside the spring cartridge without opening the ball.
So here’s how I took the toilet apart and put it back together.
https://ourrvadventures.com/2015/12/almost-finished/
As part of these same plumbing repairs, I also replaced the bathroom faucet that had a broken handle. But like many of these projects, this one didn’t go quite as planned and took two days. The first day is at the bottom of the toilet repair post, so you can start there again.
https://ourrvadventures.com/2015/12/almost-finished/
https://ourrvadventures.com/2015/12/like-butter/
Another repair while we were gate guarding last year was when the electric side of our Attwood water heater died. The propane part still worked, just not the electric. Since we were busy on the gate, we just used the propane side until I finally found the time to take a look at the problem. Here’s that story.
https://ourrvadventures.com/2015/09/fixed/
https://ourrvadventures.com/2015/09/brrrrr/
https://ourrvadventures.com/2015/09/summers-last-gasp-3/
Probably my biggest repair last year was when I replaced our 16 year old Coleman Mach V with a new Coleman Mach 15. The front unit was still cooling OK, but not as good as it should have.
I could have gotten a couple of saddle taps and added some Freon, but I also wanted to increase the BTU output, going from 13,500 up to 15,000, along with a much stronger fan.
Another repair spread out over 3 days, you can check it out here.
https://ourrvadventures.com/2015/08/a-good-excuse/
https://ourrvadventures.com/2015/08/two-minutes/
https://ourrvadventures.com/2015/08/cold-air/
To paraphrase Emily Latella, “With an RV, it’s always something.”
Thought for the Day:
Ever look at your best friend and wonder why you aren’t both comedians?
NIck, Nick?
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DashCams and DayCare . . .
After two recent very busy days, it was nice to not do anything today. At least anything outside the coach. Well, I did walk the garbage over to the dumpster, but that was it.
It was fun opening the Amazon packages we picked up at Brandi’s yesterday, almost like Christmas.
First up were the new DirecTV Remotes we ordered to replace our flakey ones.
Blog reader Art Raeck did clue me in on the secret to getting them open. But with 3 of them to repair, and the fact that I can get newer, better ones for $4 each on Amazon led me to take the easy road and just get replacements.
It only took me a couple of minutes to program them for our RCA LCD T’V’s since the needed code was the first on the list. It’s really nice to have all the buttons working again.
Next up was a pair of EMT or Trauma Shears. They were all over the TV ads a few years back, and we bought one a good while ago, but it disappeared.
These type of scissors are used by EMT’s and in ER rooms, to cut people out of their clothes, belts, shoes, pretty much anything, including metal. In fact you can actually cut a penny in half with one. So they’re nice to have around.
The final package was a second mounting kit for my A-118 dashcam.
The kit that came with the dashcam I used for the truck, but didn’t get one for the rig. I had kludged one up, but still had to swap the power cable back and forth. So this way it will just take a couple of minutes to move the cam back and forth.
I’ve had this dashcam for about a year and a half, and I really like the quality video it puts out.
I really wish I’d had it mounted in the RV when we had our blowout in May of last year. It would have shown what a wild ride we had as we came to a stop.
We’ve talked before about problems people have had being forcibly upgraded to Window 10, whether they wanted to be or not. Well, here’s a story about a lady whose travel business computer was trashed by a rogue Windows 10 install, causing her to lose business. So she sued Microsoft . . . and won. S10,000, in fact.
You can read about it here. Lady Sues Microsoft
Three days a week, Landon goes to a Summer Daycare that sounds more like a summer camp. Anyway, the other day they did a Robotics Class, with a kit for each student to assemble on the table.
After everyone sat down, the teacher started talking about robotics, but before the teacher could start giving instructions on how to put the kit together, they discovered that Landon had already assembled his kit . . . perfectly.
The teacher said he’s way beyond the other kids in his skill level. Must be all those Lego kits we got him.
I mentioned the other day about Karma and Jan fighting over who gets to use Moose The Footstool, so this time Karma got there first.
So this time Karma won.
Thought for the Day:
People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.— Joan Rivers
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