RE: Inexpensive Dehumidifier
Another way to do this is to take two clean 5 gallon drywall buckets, drill a bunch of 1/4 holes in the bottom of one and set it inside the other. Fill the upper (inside) one about half full with Calcium Chloride, and set it in the camper. This is basically a large scale version of the little dehumidifiers, and works very well. Where to get the calcium chloride? Well, if you are in a cold northern state it is readily available and inexpensive in farm supplies, it is used to de ice areas where cows walk to stop slipping. Sodium chloride (salt) should not be used for either cows or dehumidifiers. Now if I could only find some in Florida.....
RE: Propane Tank Ignites in Truck
Hmmm, I seem to remember posting on this subject a while back, when someone was talking about carrying a tank inside the truck. Verrrrry interesting!!!
RE: Lance Onan - Shore Power ?
If the loud humming sound is coming from the generator, not the converter box, it may be that the switching device which disconnects the generator when on shore power is malfunctioning. Converter (in my Lance 981) is not near generator, so should be easy to tell where sound originates. Might want to get this checked.
RE: Problem with Onan camp power 2500.
The tube on my 2500, in a Lance, does not come down as the above photo shows, it can be seen only by looking up from the ground at the bottom of the unit, comes out the bottom and takes a turn to the side and ends. I called Onan, they said they had engineers working on a fix. I asked if t hey needed drawing to fasten a piece of window screen on the end of tube. Anyhow, with a bit of persistance on my part they refunded the cost of the "repair", my point being that if they were working on a fix it was their problem, not mine, and at the very least they owed me a heads up on the problem before it occurred in my unit in the summer in the deep south.. Persistence involved several calls over several months and a refusal to give up on my part. They also sent a fix, which is basically a piece of window screen to fit he end of the tube. and a nylon tie to hold it on. Hope the engineers didn't stay up late to figure that one out! I would imagine if the tube really is not there, as in missing or fallen off, it could also cause similar problems.
RE: Ham Radio in a TC
I have a Diamond NR-770HA mounted on an aluminum plate, 2nd step of the ladder on my Lance 981. Rig is a Yaesu FT90. The aluminum frame of the 981 and the aluminum of the ladder make what must be an exceptional ground plane, the radio gets out amazingly well.
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RE: Driving with the gas on....
I have a Norcold which was blowing out while traveling in very windy area.. Bought some aluminum window screening, secured it to surround the burner area using small high strength magnets. Easily removed for servicing or warranty work and cured the problem.
RE: Battery cut off switch install
Again, IF WE ARE TALKING ABOUT SUPPLYING BATTERY POWER FROM THE TRUCK (chassis power) to the camper and providing a means to disconnect that power from the camper, the disconnect switch should be in the positive, "hot" line, not the ground line.
Two Winnebago motorhomes,and a Holiday Rambler motorhome I have owned, and my current Lance camper are all wired this way. In addition, a fuse at the supply battery, essentially an "overload switch", is correctly and logically located in the Positive, not the ground lead.
If we are talking about isolating a particular battery or battery set from another set, disconnecting the ground will certainly isolate that battery.
RE: Battery cut off switch install
If we are talking about supplying battery power from the truck battery to the camper, then all metallic connections from the camper frame to the truck frame or body should be considered as "ground" back to the truck battery. Examples would be the hold downs, or possibly a metal part of the camper touching a metal part of the truck bed. A switch in the positive lead on the power from the truck battery will eliminate ALL truck battery power to camper, but a switch on the ground leg leaves the possibilities of other grounds still being intact.
RE: Hyki Hatch
I have same hatch on my Lance, and have been using a piece of aluminum faced bubble type insulation, similar to that found in windshield sunblockers on the inside of the hatch.I leave the screen open. Product is available at big box stores, about 3/8 inch thick, aluminum faced both sides, flexible.
I put this in place and use a small dowel in the track to support the center, and it catches the edge of the screen track.. The piece is not quite big enough to completely cover the area, on purpose, since I didn't want to trap heat up there. The aluminum reflects heat out pretty well, it makes a big difference.
This has been in place for 3 years, most of the time,including traveling and always during storage here in Florida. I can see no ill effects on anything,
RE: Finally had enough with the convection oven!!
Well, everyone to their own fancy. My wife does well on the convection oven but would prefer a gas oven, and makes some wonderful meals on the stove top. The microwave itself is a great way to warm up coffee, but not to cook anything. Some people never use the gas stove, some play great woodsman and cook over a fire, some hit McDonalds, more power to them. We cook out in the "yard" on occasion, when the bugs and the weather and the steak are just right. As far as trading in my wife because she doesn't use the convection oven?????
Well, again, everyone to their own fancy and especially circumstances, but there are other things in life than cooking. She can use any damn stove she wants! :)
RE: Mistake Made - Lesson Learned
What most likely plugs up the works is toilet paper. There is an obvious solution to this, but someone will surely have a panic attack if I suggest it.
You might also take a single sheet of the paper you use, place it in a glass jar half full of water, shake just once. If it completely dissolves, that's the one to use. If not, Scotts (not the "Extra Soft", it is also extra strong) will dissolve readily. The high priced "camper brands" are no better, just much more money.
RE: 5,000 Miles
Just a thought about Cracker Barrel and Lard. We all complain about it, use it as a 4 letter word, and granted it's most likely not good for you, and you probably shouldn't eat anything fried in it, or made with it.
However.....those of you who have not fried fish,or chicken, or used it as shortening in the days before hydrogenated/unhydrogenated vegetable, seed or other products of modern chemistry missed the good stuff-------LARD!
Doubt that Cracker Barrel or any other restaurant uses lard. More likely some form of vegetable diesel oil. Enjoy!!!!
RE: 5,000 Miles
Well, we must have just gotten lucky last summer, left Florida end of May, off to Texas, then to Alaska, where we did a once around the state, top of the world highway over to Chicken, a little rough in places and quite a lot dirt, down to down to Atlin in BC, then down the Cassiar ( almost all dirt) , down to Prince Rupert and a whole bunch of places too numerous to mention, including some AMAZING Alaskan "Whoop-de-doos"aka big bumps. BIG.. In all that trip, including all the way back to Florida in September, We suffered ONE bolt failure on an airbag bracket, but replaced several. Also one electric heater failure, but it was about 20 years old. Nothing else fell off, bent broke or got ugly (well, maybe me on at least one of those). I would go again tomorrow, stop at Flying Js, Walmart, eat at Cracker Barrel once in a while and have an absolutely great time, as we have our 4 trips to Alaska, plus many many more .
Sorry about those rough roads across the country to Tennessee. Life is hard and then you die!!!
RE: Alaska Clam Digging Trip Pictures
Been to that area a couple times, never went clamming. Could you write a bit more about tides, techniques, etc.? I know that is quite an interesting area to go clamming. Nice Pix.
RE: How to carry an extra propane cylinder
Of course it was overfilled, especially when it heated up and expanded, which the essential problem. A nicely filled tank at lower tempersatures becomes an overfilled tank when nice and hot. (as in a closed up camper in the sun?)
We all know that no attendant would ever overfill one accidentally. Not a chance. No way!!!
