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RE: Up-Date On Mandrake !
Thanks for the update. I was just thinking about him. I think we should all get off the phone and leave him alone. He will be back when he is ready.
Paul
If you read my original post, HE is the one that phoned me as well as a few others here. So it's obvious "he is ready" since he called.
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javaseuf
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11/08/09 02:07pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Gel Coat or Fiberglass
Info HERE.
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javaseuf
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11/07/09 01:37pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: NuWave oven
Look HERE for many posts on this product.
I love mine.
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javaseuf
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11/07/09 01:50am |
Camp Cooks and Connoisseurs
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Up-Date On Mandrake !
Without going into details, Mandrake is alive and as well as can be.
He called me the other evening and left a very nice message on the voice mail. Says he is having some trials to deal with but getting through and hanging in there. He just needs some "alone" time.
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javaseuf
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11/06/09 12:00pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Double windows, hard to find in the US?
Since double-pane windows is usually an option on RV's, I would say that it may be a little tough to find what you are looking for if the windows aren't negotiable.
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javaseuf
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11/05/09 07:12pm |
Travel Trailers
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RE: Water Heater Problems
Sorry folks but a Direct Spark Ignition water heater doesn't use a thermocouple and since the OP said he goes inside to turn on the water heater, this would indicate he has a DSI system.
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javaseuf
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11/05/09 07:00pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: Install a Timer on Inverter?
Cruiser, we sell mechanical wall box timers where I work that go to 6 or even 12 hours.
Home Depot or Lowes should have em' and if not, PM me and I'll hook ya' up.
Listed HERE on our web-site.
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javaseuf
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11/05/09 06:52pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: Dumbest Stunt Ever
I think this is the kind of guy I would want standing with me in a alley should trouble present itself. No Fear!!!
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javaseuf
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11/05/09 06:48pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: On being bald
This surely would have been a story for Art Linkletter's "Kids Say The Darndest Things" TV show. (Oh no. Showing my age here).
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javaseuf
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11/05/09 06:45pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: A Serious Warning Regarding Safety Here On The Forum
""Plausble for propane to collect" and can "accumulate in that space and then when the owner light the match to light the pilot light on the furnace" ... that statement is exactly what I was talking about the "OBAMA heath care" agrument. That is just silly and is another nail IMHO in your techincial coffin as an RV tech . There are no safety standards that use plausable standards, it's either safe or not based on facts which I'm afraid allude you."
Are you serious, Larry?? "techincial coffin" (I suggest spell-check)? Please. :R
And this is dead wrong, Lar:
" the green only shows pressure to the regulator and not after the regulator ... it is an indicator of the tank pressure and not the pressure in the system to the appliances".
Go out and open your tanks so you have a green indicator. Now shut off the tanks and have someone open the stove valve while you watch the green turn to red.
"Your killing me, Larry!!" :B
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javaseuf
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11/05/09 06:17pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: A Serious Warning Regarding Safety Here On The Forum
Well, let me say one more thing.....
First, I stand by my original post.
Second, any amount of propane can and will collect in an enclosed space. So, lets say you have a leak, no matter how small even if it takes 6 hours to show on a manometer 9which very well may meet "standards" whatever they are), in the cabinet of an older trailer that has a standing pilot furnace. The owner has left the propane tanks on for weeks. It certainly is plausable that propane could accumulate in that space and then when the owner lights the match to light the pilot light on the furnace...........
While I agree there are RVIA standards for a leak-down test, I still say that if there was any leakage, I would want to know where it is rather than say it met some standards.
The ones that tear my thread apart because of one point (propane issue) have completely missed the spirit of the post and I don't intend to get into a sparing match nor see the need to justify my post or defend my experience in the industry to these few.
And BTW.......
I have turned off my tanks for months and go back to them and still see the green indicator on the change-over valve which indicates no leak-down. I feel a little more comfortable with that result than looking at a manometer reading zero after two hours which is acceptable according to other's standards.
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javaseuf
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11/05/09 05:49pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: A Serious Warning Regarding Safety Here On The Forum
My intent with this thread wasn't to give advice on propane leaks or any other particular issue.
And yes, there has been some recent threads in which I have had to correct posters that supplied eroneous information, information that if taken by another as acurate, could have cost the member a significant amount of money for un-needed repairs. Now, the un-needed repairs I am refering to were not a safety issue and one could live with the result albeit a little poorer. Safety issues are another story that if wrong information was followed, some couldn't live with.
Sorry, but I am finished here.
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javaseuf
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11/05/09 03:39pm |
Tech Issues
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A Serious Warning Regarding Safety Here On The Forum
I would encourage anyone that comes to these Forums for information that is safety related, to check the facts elsewhere before concluding that what is posted here is correct.
I have seen people post that there is a certain tolerance that is acceptable when there is a propane leak. WRONG!!! there is either a leak or no leak and since propane is heavier than air and can collect in pockets, NO AMOUNT OF LEAKAGE IS SAFELY ACCEPTABLE.
Others have also posted that propane is lighter than air, that you must use pipe-dope or teflon tape on flared fittings, that compression fittings are acceptable in a gas system, etc. etc.
I have seen many, many posts here that atribute an eroneous alarming CO or LPG detector to low batteries or expiration date of said detector when in fact, YOU COULD HAVE A CO PROBLEM OR LPG LEAK.
JUST BECAUSE OTHERS MAY HAVE HAD LOW BATTERIES DOESN'T MEAN THAT OTHERS HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM!
Please, folks. Even after servicing RV's for 30 years, I still check the facts before posting when it comes to safety related issues and I would encourage others to do the same.
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javaseuf
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11/05/09 02:25pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: Trailer A/C Freeze Up
In your every case of low coolant. HOW did you verify that it was a low charge? Doug
Well.. I'll give you one guess..
We hooked up the pressure guage, observed the low reading, added more R-whatever it took, and from then on it worked perfectly till the next time it needed a re-charge (or till it's end of days whichever came first)
Do you know of another way to do it? I don't.
Depending on the unit in question "WE" either refers to a professional Air Conditioning serviceman, with me watching, or myself.
Well, my edits I did above in red explain this reply.
"R-whatever it was"?
"till the next time it needed a re-charge"?
"Professional"?
Sorry, but reading these statements, there is obviously no-one that was professional that worked on these units.
A competent service man would know that R-22 is what is used in a roof-air and would know that if the unit was low on refrigerant, there had to be a leak that needed to be addressed so it wouldn't need to re-charged again.
And BTW, the now Federal laws governing the release of refrigerant into the atmosphere prohibits a mechanic, especially one with an EPA license, to knowingly allow a refrigerant system he has worked on to continue leaking refrigerant and to place back into operation any equipment that they know has a leak.
Not trying to be a wise-a@* here but facts are facts and since many that read this Forum take posts here as "gosple", they need to know the CORRECT facts.
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javaseuf
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11/05/09 02:16pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: Bad expeince at Amarillo Best Wonderland RV Resort
Welcome to the Forum.
Hummmmmm a post about your experience 3-4 years ago? :h
2009 - 2008 = 1
Yeah! What the others said. :B
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javaseuf
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11/05/09 02:01pm |
RV Parks, National Parks, State Campgrounds & More
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RE: Bad expeince at Amarillo Best Wonderland RV Resort
Welcome to the Forum.
Hummmmmm a post about your experience 3-4 years ago? :h
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javaseuf
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11/04/09 09:01pm |
RV Parks, National Parks, State Campgrounds & More
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RE: Ontario to Texas with stop off in Ambler, Pennsylvania
Wow, how Ironic! I was raised in Ambler Pa.!!
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javaseuf
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11/04/09 08:59pm |
Roads and Routes
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RE: CEO-Affinity
Ah, its posted as a stickey at the top of every forum including this one.
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javaseuf
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11/04/09 08:55pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Does accumulator reduce water pump running?
My last two RV's had pumps that pulsated if I didn't have the faucets all the way open. The reason for this is the water restrictors in the faucets. I removed these restrictors and adjusted the pressure switch on the pump and they continuously ran even with the faucet slightly open so there was no longer pulsating water coming out of the faucets.
Steady flow at any rate.
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javaseuf
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11/04/09 08:46pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Trailer A/C Freeze Up
Take the cover and filter off. You soul be able to see the temp censor. It should be located in the cooling fins not hanging free. I had the same issue and compared my other AC to the one that was freezing up and the one freezing up the censor was hanging free unlike the one that was working as it should so I put the censon in the same location as the correct working AC and have not had a problem since. Hope this is your problem as it is a free fix.
This doesn't apply as we have already established that the OP's unit doesn't have a freeze sensor.
And, just in case the OP is confused with the term "temp sensor", there will be a capillary tube that comes off of the mechanical thermostst and this MUST NOT make contact with any part of the coil or any metal. It should be contained in a rubber "O"-ring on a bracket that insulates the bulb from touching metal.
If this cap tube would touch metal, it would cause the compressor to short-cycle since it would then be sensing the temperature of the cool metal and not the return air temperature.
And BTW, in my years of servicing, I can count on one hand the number of units that froze-up because of low refrigerant. The most common cause is dirty fins on the coil.
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javaseuf
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11/04/09 04:49pm |
Tech Issues
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