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RE: language barrier
So I made a decision to avoid places that don't speak English.
That would lead to a very restricted RVing life for us.
No 3 months in Mexico, no 2 years in China (teaching, not RVing), no 3 months in Morocco, no 12 months in Europe, and no three months in Iceland, and even parts of Canada would be off-limits.
Must be a secret that most of the world actually has large proportions of the population that can hold at least a basic conversation in English - and even the rest are quite happy to engage in a bit of pantomime to get a message across.
I walked into a vehicle service garage today in a non-English speaking country and the bloke behind the counter was able to hold a fairly technical conversation in English without hesitation or error. I asked him how long ago it was that he last spoke English and he said back at high school - 15 years ago.
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tony lee
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06/10/13 04:07am |
RVing in Mexico and South America
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RE: Bicycle stolen at Sam Town Las Vegas
Hey Señor Tony Lee,
Could you spring for one of these for me. I'll mail you $5.00! I work with 316 stainless cable (the stuff with the molybdenum in it) and these cables can be cut with the cable cutter below. Every bicycle thief carries a pair
http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/KNIPEX-Wire-Rope-Cutter-6PFF5?Pid=search
If you can get a German one for $70, you will be able to get a Chinese one for $5 that will work quite well enough to cut a few SS cables. Try Harbour Freight.
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tony lee
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06/03/13 04:06pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Bicycle stolen at Sam Town Las Vegas
No bolt cutter that I have ever seen can cut a stainless steel cable not even a 48" $300.00 Rigid cutter.
Quite true
But a $5 cable cutter will.
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tony lee
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05/31/13 04:29pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Something I Read
I carry a collection of adaptors - some of which are to shove inside the spout rather than over the outside. Always a bit of a gamble as to whether I will end up soaked trying to hold the adaptor in place.
In europe we carry a plastic watering can for filling the tank - and to get lots of exercise at the same time.
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tony lee
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05/27/13 05:42pm |
RVing in Canada and Alaska
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RE: What to Declare
You could have just clicked on the "clicky" at the top of this forum!
Only if you are happy with info that could be well out of date.
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tony lee
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05/27/13 05:35pm |
RVing in Canada and Alaska
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RE: Batteries overcharging
I would guess that the boiling over is a sign that the batteries are at the end of their life. How old are the batteries. Have they ever been completely discharged. One bad battery or if the batteries are old can boil over. They are being overcharged becasue they can never get fully charged.
I had to replace the batteries several months ago when they exploded...
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tony lee
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05/22/13 11:07pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: I Need to Vent!!!
In my opinion first mistake was by you taking it home the same day you bought the MH. If you would of waited for everything to be fixed, I think your experience would of have been a lot different. MAYBE? Like someone else said earlier find your self another dealer that will treat you with respect and honesty, and not give you the run around. Only my opinion.:M
Strange attitude. More to the point was how could all of these faults (needing weeks to fix) possibly exist in a brand new motorhome. Bit like buying a new suit and having to leave it behind so they could re-sew half of it.
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tony lee
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05/22/13 11:00pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Something I Read
If you buy one of those water thief gizmos, also buy a hose clamp to keep the rubber bit on the brass bit because the slightest pressure blows them apart.
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tony lee
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05/21/13 04:21am |
RVing in Canada and Alaska
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RE: Detroit Diesel 671 fuel issues
The one sound I hate about my 8V71 is the cash register bell going crazy when I fill up the tank
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tony lee
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05/15/13 09:36pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Flood! What now?
You will have to decide whether $1000 deductible PLUS increased insurance premiums in future years is going to be more than what it will cost to clean it all up if you don't involve the insurance company.
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tony lee
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05/07/13 03:40pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Bathroom flood - What did I do wrong?
We'll all just have to wait until the OP gets back to us with the result of his investigations.
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tony lee
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05/06/13 04:00pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Bathroom flood - What did I do wrong?
Your problem is the Vacuum Check valve for the Black Tank flush system. The OEM's install this check valve usually in the Lavy sink area. The valve is faulty and needs replaced. Connect the Black flush again. open the Lavy sink doors and have someone turn the water on and observe if you have water squirting out. That valve if leaking is the culprit. Doug
I would check the black tank flush system. Mine goes from the hose inlet, up in the back of the vanity and then back down into the black tank. There is a vacuum breaker at the top of the loop. (this is nothing to do with the drain system from the vanity bowl.)
One of the fittings was loose and when I turning on the black flush, had water spraying up inside and running out through the floor openings behind the water panel
Easy to check - take all the drawers out and have someone watch as you turn the black flush on.
Sorry Doug - I didn't read all the posts, including yours, before posting my suggestion. You got in first.
I wouldn't mind betting we have the right answer. Either the valve itself or one of the fittings
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tony lee
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05/06/13 04:00am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Bathroom flood - What did I do wrong?
I would check the black tank flush system. Mine goes from the hose inlet, up in the back of the vanity and then back down into the black tank. There is a vacuum breaker at the top of the loop. (this is nothing to do with the drain system from the vanity bowl.)
One of the fittings was loose and when I turning on the black flush, had water spraying up inside and running out through the floor openings behind the water panel
Easy to check - take all the drawers out and have someone watch as you turn the black flush on.
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tony lee
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05/05/13 03:50pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Top of the World Hwy - late opening
Just great the summer that I'm finally planning on getting to AK and you guys are going to have winter all summer.:M
The Top of the World is were I was planning on going first so I guess that is out and I might have to switch and go to the coast first.
Thanks for the info it is appreciated.
Need to be totally flexible on the way up and the way down because highways can be closed for days and even weeks because of landslides. We were planning one route up and had to reverse our circle and then on the way back down there was a similar closure so another change of plan. End result is that those who insist on planning their every hour are going to end up nervous wrecks at the prospect of having to travel up with no campground reservations.
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tony lee
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05/05/13 12:38am |
RVing in Canada and Alaska
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RE: Rig Down! No air pressure... Help please
So do I need to be worried of getting too much pressure now?That is what the governor does! There are also safety pop off valves on each tank. But I'd get that air dryer taken care of some
There is also usually a control line running between the air dryer and the governor but if it is the governor that controls the airdryer rather than the other way around then it won't matter. Which controls which?
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tony lee
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05/04/13 04:18pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Gas Pods for an RV to improve gas milage?
Yes but you have to admit that they look a hell of a lot cuter than airtabs.
Actually the best way to improve the slipperyness of your vehicle is to get a ball pein hammer and dent the whole body so it looks like a golf ball.
Or did Myth Busters already debunk that too.
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tony lee
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05/04/13 04:06pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Rig Down! No air pressure... Help please
Stuck open unloader valve on the air dryer normally makes a lot of hissing noise but a stuck governor on the compressor will be quiet.
Heard of people getting out of trouble by tapping/banging the governor to free it.
http://www.inlandtruckcentres.com.au/images/product/pop_275707N_D2_governor_valve_(2).jpg
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tony lee
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05/04/13 01:49am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: air tabs
I also am familiar with vortex generators since they were installed on two of the planes that I owned and are present on most commercial planes in service toady. Now I'm not sure that any student in a high school class has my flying experience, or racing various vehicles at high speed, but knock yourself out finding one that does. In the meantime, hang on to your pennies.
Ah yes, the vortex generators on planes argument. Coming from a plane owner and car racer no less. If VGs placed in critical areas of the high speed airflow over smoothly contoured surfaces make an improvement because it stops the airflow separating from the wing or flap surface, then of course sticking dozens of them on the extreme back end of a slow moving box will do wonders.
Show me a plane that has them plastered all over the extreme trailing edges of the wing or empennage structure and then maybe we can extend that reasoning to sticking them on the extreme rear of a 60' vehicle
The main thrust of the marketing hype remains vastly improved fuel consumption (yes 4% (if what is being reported is correct) IS a vast improvement) and when you look at what has been done on trucks to improve the aspect ratio - much more aerodynamic fronts, Overcab structures, very small gaps between tractor and trailers and the huge air walls fitted under trailers - and then get told that a few bits of plastic stuck right on the back are going to add another dramatic improvement in fuel use. Sure.
Still, despite a lot of effort put in to debunking such claims, the world is still full of all sorts of imaginative ways to separate people from their money and one constantly-booming sector is 1001 ways to improve your fuel economy and boost the power level, or more usually both economy and power at the same time - or your money back (less P&H) within 14 days.
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tony lee
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05/02/13 03:39pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Front and Rear air pressure
The gauge and the low pressure alarm should not be directly connected so a faulty pressure switch should not cause the gauge to read low so I would think you did have low pressure and the gauge was reading correctly and the pressure switch was also doing the right thing and warning you that the pressure was low.
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tony lee
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05/02/13 05:35am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: air tabs
Any opinion by someone that has not used the product is worthless. and of course it is equally true - or even more true - that OPINIONS of those who have used the product are equally worthless because of confirmation bias.
Here we have a product that is just crying out for some scientific testing to provide quantitative evidence that anyone can understand. Not hard to do and any high school science class could come up with some way of verifying the claims.
Recently spent a couple of days in an RV park and down the road was a huge pharmaceutical distribution centre with a couple of hundred prime movers and double that number of trailers in the yard. The company has 8 other similar centres. If that company could be convinced that putting $200 worth of plastic on each of those rigs would save 2% of fuel costs, they would all have air tabs fitted in an instant.
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tony lee
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05/02/13 05:27am |
Class A Motorhomes
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