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RE: California Weight Check Point Calimesa This Week
Maybe they are checking California pick-up trucks to ensure they are properly registered to haul a load. When I lived in California many years ago, I recall their license fees were higher if you used your pick-up to actually carry a load. Jack
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Mont G&J
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11/23/09 06:02pm |
Toy Haulers
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RE: Picture posting thread...anyone into it?
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Butterfly exhibit at Tucson Botanical Gardens.
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Mont G&J
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11/17/09 07:47pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: RV caulking
Here's the Dicor product I'd use...check it out Camping World Dicor non-sag sealant
I was looking at this sealant yesterday at the Tucson store. Jack
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Mont G&J
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11/14/09 01:35pm |
Beginning RVing
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RE: Picked up fiver and made 1st mistake
Check your pins holding the hitch to the rails. I had trouble locking mine and found that the pins were not allowing the slide to slide far enough to lock. I changed the pins and it cured the problem...
What he says.
The hitch installer installed my pins in the wrong way which kept the slide from locking into position. Jack
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Mont G&J
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11/10/09 09:57pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: Good Sams ERS-Positive experience.
I wasn't a member, but called Good Sams ERS when I lost a wheel on our 5th wheel out in the middle of Nowhere, New Mexico. Lady was super nice and made arrangements for a mobile mechanic to come to our rescue. (At our expense of course). She made a follow-up call a couple hours later to make sure everything went alright. I signed up for a two year membership then and there. Jack
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Mont G&J
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11/10/09 09:37pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: My girlfriend hates me...
I'd like to give you one more bit of advice, Mike. This may be the last best time to buy a motorcycle as well. Can't get any worse than it is. :W
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Mont G&J
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11/07/09 08:21pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: How far can you drive on a flat?
My concern is fire, I was driving accross AZ with a tandom trailer and the tire caught fire, I did not realize it was flat. I stopped quick enough and got the fire out with an extinguisher. I was lucky and had only scorch damage on the RV. Driving on a flat is bad CARMA.
Yes indeed you were lucky. A burning tire is nearly impossible to put out with most type fire extinguishers we carry in our RVs. :E
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Mont G&J
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11/07/09 08:01pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: Is it worth it?
I always wondered what effect the increased down force on the TV has on the tires.:h
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Mont G&J
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11/07/09 07:01pm |
Travel Trailers
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RE: Yet another Prodigy question/problem
Brake light switch adjustment, or brake peddle not returning to full-up. Those are the two things I'd check first. Jack
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Mont G&J
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11/03/09 10:41pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Will DVR work without satellites?
We do it with our "Dish" DVR. My wife records over a hundred hours of programs before we start out on our snowbird journeys to the south. When we turn the DVR on without an antenna connected it starts hunting for a transponder, at that time I just press the DVR button on the remote for recorded program and they pop right-up. Jack
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Mont G&J
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11/02/09 10:29am |
Technology Corner
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RE: Ice Maker Winterization - I don't understand...
Here's the way I cycle mine:
1. Lever "Down" in ice making mode.
2. Remove plastic cover on front of ice maker.
3. Rotate large gear in direction of arrow on gear. (I rotate mine clock-wise.) It's hard to turn, but only needs moved slightly before the ice maker will start it's cycle. Jack
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Mont G&J
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10/18/09 10:56am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: WOOD STOVE IN MOTOR HOME RV?????
Funny how people will start a topic then never get back to it, making all us posters wonder if the original poster took the time to read our responses:h
ROLLINGSMOKE you still with us?
More than likely burned his rig to the ground and no longer needs our ata-boys or criticisms. :E
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Mont G&J
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10/18/09 10:38am |
General RVing Issues
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Pet urine in RV & Montana Supreme Court ruling.
- A Montana woman who bought a used motor home she said was so drenched in pet urine that even $17,000 in repairs and janitorial work couldn't salvage it can sue the dealer, the Montana Supreme Court ruled. :R
For the rest of the story.
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Mont G&J
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10/15/09 10:28pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: $$$ for checking on your house???
We have a good arrangement with our neighbor, he stores his boat in our garage while we're gone in exchange for shoveling the sidewalk and keeping his eye on things. Jack
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Mont G&J
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10/15/09 01:26pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Dry Camping/overnighting at Hotel/Motel Parking Lots????
Until we heard that camping was free at Walmart, we mainly 'stealthed' overnites in hotel/motel parking lots. Never asked for permission and was never asked to leave. I don't get why people worry about this stuff, it's just a parking lot. Pull in late and drive around back, there's usually space, if not find a different one. We've done the same thing at the National Parks that have a Lodge parking lot.
I may be mistaken, but didn't I see you coming in the backdoor for the free continental breakfast early one morning? ;)
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Mont G&J
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10/10/09 08:23pm |
Public Lands, Boondocking and Dry Camping
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RE: Canadian flag in Florida?
Walter Fallica, 62, explains his side of an altercation he had with the Brookridge Country Club over the height of a Canadian flag. (He was wrong of course).
Hernando man insists Old Glory should fly higher than Canada's flag
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Mont G&J
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10/10/09 08:06pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: WOOD STOVE IN MOTOR HOME RV?????
A wood/coal stove, properly installed, and properly operated, is just a safe as any gas furnace or oil furnace. If properly operated, it doesn't even have to have the chimney cleaned very often!
Sorry, but IMO this does not describe what the OP has built for himself. Jack
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Mont G&J
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10/09/09 10:19pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: WOOD STOVE IN MOTOR HOME RV?????
Homemade wood-stove in an RV is a recipe for disaster. Hopefully, there are no others residing with you.
I was employed in the stove business for 15 years and have a good understanding of the many dangerous conditions that you may have created.
Be careful! Jack
So expand on them for us. Explain how it's different in a camper than in a house.
IMO. Not one step in the manufacture of his wood-stove or installation would pass inspection for a mobile home, let alone an install into a RV. Respectfully, Jack
Mother Earth News
“Mobile home owners, however, should harbor a special respect for wood-burning heaters . . . in part because clearance distances from combustible surfaces will likely be reduced, and to some degree because the materials used in such manufactured housing are more heat-conductive than those often used in conventional structures. Less obvious is the fact that combustion—of any fuel—depletes the oxygen supply within a living space, and this can present a health hazard in itself.
PLAYING BY THE RULES
Before a woodstove may be installed in a mobile home, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires that specific regulations be satisfied. First, the stove model must have been tested by a HUD-approved laboratory and listed for use in mobile homes. A metal tag permanently fastened to the rear of the appliance indicates the name of the testing facility and the stove's compliance with HUD Standard UM-84. Second, a tested and listed prefabricated chimney system—connected directly to the stove and installed properly—must be used. Third, a hard ducting system for bringing outside combustion air directly to the stove's air inlet is required. And finally, some means of securing the stove to the floor of the home is called for.
In addition to the HUD requirements, some basic clearance and installation guidelines, provided by the stove manufacturer and based on testing to Underwriters' Laboratory Standard 1482, should be adhered to.
As a mobile home owner, your choice of woodstoves is limited to those approved by HUD, but you won't be disappointed by the selection. Most manufacturers either make stoves specifically for use in mobile homes or have adapter kits available to bring standard models into compliance with the established regulations. In general, HUD-approved units burn wood rather than coal, have a moderate Btu output, and incorporate a top-exiting flue collar.”
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Mont G&J
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10/09/09 05:54pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: WOOD STOVE IN MOTOR HOME RV?????
Homemade wood-stove in an RV is a recipe for disaster. Hopefully, there are no others residing with you.
I was employed in the stove business for 15 years and have a good understanding of the many dangerous conditions that you may have created.
Be careful! Jack
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Mont G&J
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10/09/09 04:20pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Hey I am new, help!
Hi Mike, welcome to the Forum.
We bought a Memory Foam Topper from Costco and easily cut it to size using an electric carving knife. Jack
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Mont G&J
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10/09/09 03:17pm |
Travel Trailers
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