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RE: Prices for a new roof.. Who knew?!
Maybe it's more profitable to charge $64 for quotes and then make the price so high that no one ever accepts - I've heard of "Handymen" operating this way - charge $30 or $40 to show up, then quote a price so high that they are sure to not get the job, then go on to the next appointment - might do 2 or 3 such appointments in an hour, raking in several hundred dollars a day and never having to do an actual job.
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JohninSD
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04/19/13 09:25am |
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RE: CB radio
Hmmm - maybe I'm over equipped - smart phone, CB, FRS and Ham radio - I find the technology interesting and I do use all of these at various times, just not very much. I do prefer the FRS radios for short distance comms in a group - the FM mode they use is inherently less noisy than the AM of the CB - but the CB will reach farther - and it's more likely to have traffic info available. The ham rig is more of a true emergency radio - there's almost always a 2 meter repeater somewhere nearby even in areas without cell coverage. And the 75 watts of the 2 meter rig has much more range than the other radios I have.
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JohninSD
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04/07/13 04:32pm |
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RE: Propane 20# Tanks Short?
Just took an ancient, totally rusted, non-OPD tank to the local CVS store and exchanged it for a relatively new, filled (partially filled maybe? - I don't know, feels heavier than an empty, not going to weigh it) tank with an OPD valve for about $20. No questions, no problems. The attendant agreed with me that the old tank had seen better days. If the supplier wasn't making money they'd soon go out of business wouldn't they? This is an example of Milton Friedman's definition of a truly voluntary transaction - both parties benefit. I got rid of an old useless tank that would have been difficult to dispose of and the gas supplier and the CVS store both made a profit.
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JohninSD
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03/01/13 01:38pm |
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Access to wheel well area from outside?
Has anyone ever seen a truck with doors in the bed that would allow access to the space in front of the wheel wells from outside? Any good reason why this would be a bad idea? I'm tired of dragging things through the camper to get them in or out of this area. I think Chevy or GM had a door on a "Camper Special" or some such at one point but apparently it didn't catch on.
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JohninSD
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01/31/13 10:16am |
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RE: Please forgive me, for I almost sinned.
I go to the Pomona RV show every year to see what's new and how much it costs. After considering Class C's and B's and looking at the prices and factoring in the price of the car/truck/jeep I'd need since I would no longer have my truck if I sold the Lance/F250 I decide that what I have is what I want and it's all paid for. I read somewhere that the secret to happiness is not having what you want but wanting what you have - seems to work.
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JohninSD
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11/06/12 07:39am |
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RE: locate remote jacks panel on Lance
If by "FHU" you mean Full HookUp the info I received with my Lance cautions against running the jacks while the 110V AC is plugged in - apparently it can overload the converter when the jacks draw more power than it can deliver. I had a similar issue last year and found the panel under the sink in my 1010 - and every terminal screw was loose - tightened them up and all was well.
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JohninSD
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09/29/12 04:47pm |
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RE: How tall is your garage/truck storage door?
I have a 1010 on an F250 - it measures 10 feet to the roof of the camper, so roughly 11 feet to the top of the A/C. I encountered a bridge marked 10' 7" in Wisconsin a few years ago and was nowhere near low enough to clear it - had to go around on another road.
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JohninSD
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09/25/12 08:27am |
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RE: Front Hitch Carriers
Ditto what billtex said - I use an "Anti Rattle Hitch Pin" which is actually a bolt and my front mounted trailer tongue box doesn't budge.
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JohninSD
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08/31/12 09:02am |
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RE: DC Power question
Disco - in your example of a wallwart with output of 7.5V this may work fine if you just connect it to the 12V battery. A lot of the newer wallwarts are switching type power supplies which don't really care what the input voltage is as long as it's higher than the desired output voltage. They also don't care whether the input is AC or DC as the first thing they do is run the input through a rectifier which outputs DC which is then fed to the switching circuit. Feeding AC to a rectifier produces DC out and feeding DC to a rectifier also produces DC out. I read this on an electric bicycle forum and didn't quite believe it but a few minutes with a voltmeter, a 36V battery, and a few wallwarts showed it to be true. The efficiency may be dismal but I have no easy way of measuring that. If the wallwart gets too hot to hold it probably won't last long but if it remains fairly cool it should be fine. This question comes up on electric bike forums as people want to run 12V lights off 36 or 48 or 72V batteries and the cheapest way to do it is with a switching type wallwart.
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JohninSD
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08/17/12 12:48pm |
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RE: Mileage correction factor
Why bother doing anything about this - just go camping - you'll use exactly as much gas as you use -
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JohninSD
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08/14/12 12:55pm |
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RE: Diehard AGM odd problem
I know this is an old thread but it just happened again - I was getting ready to load my camper for a trip starting in a few days and neither the jacks nor the generator would function. After a few hours of cleaning and checking connections I decided to drive up to Harbor Freight and buy a load tester - should have one anyway. The tester showed that the battery was good if I connected to the tapered posts but bad if I connected to the built in wingnut terminals. It would read 13.8 volts but any load greater than an amp or two would kill it. So for now it has an adapter on the positive post and the wingnut connection on the negative and everything is working. Soon as I get it on the truck it's going to Sears again - and I'll insist that they test on the wingnut terminals. BTW I bought some battery wingnut replacements called "battery knobs" which allow a much easier and tighter connection than the wingnuts. Of course I'm only using one of them right now because the wingnut adapter I put on the positive tapered post has a metric thread (8mmx1.25) instead of the usual 5/16"-18.
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JohninSD
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06/11/12 07:56pm |
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