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RE: Generator Adapters
Here is what you need…
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Or this and cut off the male end to iconnect the round 30A generator plug….
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JJBIRISH
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05/22/12 09:00am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Split hot water heater.
have it repaired
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JJBIRISH
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05/22/12 06:17am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Ran Out Of Propane Already?
I agree you used more than you realized…
And toss the gage, at best it another potential place for a leak and, it doesn’t do anything…
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JJBIRISH
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05/21/12 06:51pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Should I buy a new tire?
I wouldn’t even consider replacing it…
I might not hurt to have it rebalanced but that would be it…
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JJBIRISH
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05/21/12 06:44pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Tire wear question.
Wheel bearing first guess
Bent axle second guess…
EDIT
Slipped steel belt maybe first
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JJBIRISH
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05/21/12 06:09pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: squealing in wheels
Front brake wear indicator…
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JJBIRISH
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05/21/12 02:57pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: what low temps can you camp in???
I have camped in temps down to -20F already…but I was young and foolish then… now I am old and foolish and follow the sun and warm temps…
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JJBIRISH
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05/21/12 02:17pm |
Travel Trailers
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RE: Do you use cell phones while backing into campsite?
I use the 2 mirrors and am not afraid or to embarrassed to stop and get out of the truck to look if I need to…
The only signal I need is a loud stop if I misjudged something and only then if I would hit something by not stopping…
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JJBIRISH
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05/21/12 02:07pm |
Travel Trailers
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RE: Interesting Tire Decision, Opinions Welcome
If it were me I would buy 2 Maxxis at a time if I had to and then worry about the TPMS after that…
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JJBIRISH
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05/21/12 01:56pm |
Travel Trailers
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RE: Hercules Tires
Chances are very good that on the back side of your alloy rim you will find the PSI rating stamped into the alloy… usually near the bead but there is no universal way of marking them… I don’t think I ever saw a sticker in the valley of a alloy rim…
Good luck with your tire purchase…
that’s a nice looking tire… why such a aggressive tread pattern though…
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JJBIRISH
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05/21/12 11:52am |
Travel Trailers
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RE: Hercules Tires
Burb
Chances are you rims if steel are rated for 75 PSI… if they are the white spoke wheels there is most likely a sticker on one of the spokes that has the tire load and PSI that matches the OEM tire mated to it, but may not be its real maximum rating…
If they are the steel type where you can actually see a weld running across the rim band they may only be rated for 65 or 70 PSI…
There should be a sticker inside the valley of the rim but it is easily removable and they often fall off… another place some stamp the rating on the back side of the rim but it may be barely legible…
On the Hercules tires I have no idea where they are made and haven’t read much about them good or bad and I don’t recall ever researching them as a brand…
I am pretty well satisfied that today Maxxis is the only choice I have for a dependable tire, although their distributions system is the pits… something I addressed with Maxxis USA several years ago and was told they were working on that issue… I haven’t seen a lot of improvement in distribution myself since then…
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JJBIRISH
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05/21/12 11:26am |
Travel Trailers
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RE: Laundry Day!
These were some brazen thugs… they conspired to lay in wait for her to leave the laundry to just get a drink… swept in like a thief in the night to remove her clothes and dry their boots on her dime… in the meantime a very nice older lady folder her damp clothes for her saving the day as the thugs left the Laundromat with their boots in her dryer to avoid detection… it could be a episode for the Jerry Springer Show… where they bring out the 20’ish thugs and the older woman beats them with the boots…
I am not saying it didn’t happen exactly that way, I wasn‘t there EITHER…. Its just suspicious especially since the primary facts were only in a follow-up justification post and not in the OP…
But I have seen similar things played out in other Laundromats across the country…
Someone has their clothes in the washer/dryer and like Elvis just left the building so have these people… others waiting to use the machine and not wanting to make laundry a daylong project, after a while remove the abandon clothes and use the machine… the returning person is always incensed about it and claims to have only been gone a short time, and proclaims the perps as being a rude inconsiderate…
Of coarse not being there makes it impossible to know if the damp clothes ran out of time or were removed before the machine stopped…
The OP admitted to her obvious mistake, and it is and was always the obvious solution to that problem…
I to have left the laundry room many times and make every effort to be back before the machine stops running… but I just accept that if I am not back others may not wait and on occasion something might end up missing, but that has never happened yet, except for a almost full bottle of tide went away in my absence one time……
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JJBIRISH
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05/21/12 08:27am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Hercules Tires
Go look at one of those Hercules tires and get the plant code off of them. Then look it up (there are sources here on the web). That will tell you exactly where they were made.
With a brand like Hercules, they may have truck tires made by one company, car tires made by another, and trailer tires made by yet a third company. So when you google this, you will find people talking about some Hercules tire other than the trailer tire and they say it is made by Cooper in the states. Probably true. But when you dig far enough and read about where people have actually purchased the trailer tires, they say they are made in China.
It gets even more convoluted than that now days… the same model of a LT tire may have one size made in one plant and another size of the same tire not only made in a different plant but another country…
An example of that is the Kuhmo 857 where the 185 and 195 are made in Korea and the 205’s could be made in china or Viet Nam…
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JJBIRISH
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05/21/12 07:34am |
Travel Trailers
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RE: Laundry Day!
It seems some details that couldn’t have been forgotten and important to the story were left out of the OP… might have been better to ask the question and leave the story out…
First of all I would have expected the 20 something’s to be as considerate as a older person and I have run to very many that are… I have also seen many situation where some of our older people could learn about consideration from some of the younger ones…
Just the other day at WM while waiting for the DW to come out of the store… a young man in his 20’s and his family on their way to their car followed shortly by a older woman with a cart full of bags of (I think) potting soil going to her car… the young man returned his cart to the store and while returning to his car stopped offered and loaded all the ladies bags into her car then returned her cart to the store… he also noticed a piece of watermelon that fell on the ground and was left there, picked it up and deposited it in the trash can before returning to his waiting family…
We have a lot of promising young people here at the home base CG and I find them encouraging and refreshing… I am more concerned about what us older folks are leaving for them…We are concerned about that too, and we figure one of the things we can do is not shop at Walmart.
Not that it is related or germane to the thread in any way, I do go to WM, but I am not a WM frequent flier …
Nor am I now going to waste a half hour composing a post that states how I feel about WM and their highly re guarded here on RV.net business plan, only to have it deleted within moments of being posted…
but being a free American I still exercise my right to enter the property of the communist republic of WM to spend a night now and then… as the mother of all US corporate welfare recipients that has used my money and that has allowed the tilted playing field of non-competition to work so well for them… the only US company in modern times to try and reinstitute the old company store practices for its workers… I do admit that I buy my prescription drugs there since I helped finance the building of WM stores in all parts of the country on American soil that I travel to…
In my defense I am in the process of setting up and moving to a mail order prescription plan…another reason I grace the doors of WM is my banks branch and ATM is located inside the store locally here…I freely admit that the few purchases I do make there are and I accept are a part of the problem and one that I think about…
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JJBIRISH
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05/21/12 07:09am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Laundry Day!
It seems some details that couldn’t have been forgotten and important to the story were left out of the OP… might have been better to ask the question and leave the story out…
First of all I would have expected the 20 something’s to be as considerate as a older person and I have run to very many that are… I have also seen many situation where some of our older people could learn about consideration from some of the younger ones…
Just the other day at WM while waiting for the DW to come out of the store… a young man in his 20’s and his family on their way to their car followed shortly by a older woman with a cart full of bags of (I think) potting soil going to her car… the young man returned his cart to the store and while returning to his car stopped offered and loaded all the ladies bags into her car then returned her cart to the store… he also noticed a piece of watermelon that fell on the ground and was left there, picked it up and deposited it in the trash can before returning to his waiting family…
We have a lot of promising young people here at the home base CG and I find them encouraging and refreshing… I am more concerned about what us older folks are leaving for them…
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JJBIRISH
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05/21/12 12:06am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Hercules Tires
Maybe I just didn’t see it but I read nothing in the linked article that states the tries are being made in the USA… it says they are headquartered here in Ohio, and marketing tires made by Cooper or a associate company… while I could be wrong, I don’t believe Cooper any longer builds ST tires in the US and they may only build them in a partnered plant today (like Cooper/Kunshan or Cooper /Chengshan)…
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JJBIRISH
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05/20/12 11:27pm |
Travel Trailers
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RE: Laundry Day!
I spent 20 years using public laundromats. When I finally was able to buy a house and my own laundry equipment, I think I appreciated the W/D more than the house! Now I use public laundry equipment only when I travel.
My observations: Most people who use public (not campground) laundries are good decent people. The laundromat is an extension of their home. They don't trash the equipment. They do their laundry just like anyone else, with possibly their worst offense being the heavily scented laundry products that I have to avoid. Some cannot afford their own equipment. Some, especially in small backwoods towns, use the laundromats due to shortage of water at home.
You might want to avoid these places on Sundays, when they often seem to be full of ranch hands or sheepherders or heavy equipment operators spending their day off washing their very grubby clothing.
My advice: Stay with your laundry. Take a book or a computer toy along to amuse yourself, or chat with the locals. Check the equipment often. Be careful not to melt your clothes in the dryer.
Campground laundries, where no one lives there or will even be there tomorrow, are a whole 'nother place. No accountability. Beware. You're lucky that your clothing was only folded wet and not stolen.
Wow you description the CG laundry facilities and their users are certainly different than my experiences…
I have found the CG facilities are used by a lot of people in the same boat that need and like to use clean machines just as much as the next guy… the biggest problem I have run into is they often don’t clean the lint filter in the drier after use and that only occasionally happens… that just might be because they are used to using public Laundromats where there are no individual lint filters…
I use public and CG laundries and prefer the CG to the public… I mostly use the public because the CG facilities might be to crowded…
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JJBIRISH
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05/20/12 01:13pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: I need some RV windows!! help
http://www.ericksonsrv.com/index.html
http://easyrvwindows.com/pricing.asp
http://www.info.com/rv%20replacement%20windows?cb=27&cmp=3926&gclid=CJ6SwOaHj7ACFagbQgodNVWfqA
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JJBIRISH
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05/20/12 08:25am |
Travel Trailers
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RE: Laundry Day!
“Besides the obvious of "I should of stayed with my clothes"“
The obvious says it all… folding the clothes damp is no worse than them bunched up
in the dryer …
While I wouldn’t appreciate someone handling my laundry, I can not expect them to do their laundry based on my schedule either… there was one time when I left while I had clothes in the dryer… I was detained longer than I expected and when I got beck to the Laundromat my close were dry and folded…
I would think that because they took the time to fold your clothes they were thoughtful people, and I would have no problem with what they did… many others would have carelessly thrown you clothes in a pile, so the obvious as mentioned would have been the ultimate thoughtful thing to do…
If the appliances look clean I don’t think much about sanitizing them… if you have the time and others are not waiting to use them, and it makes you feel better, you could double your time there and run a strong bleach solution through the machine before washing your clothes…
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JJBIRISH
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05/20/12 07:33am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Buying else where
A lot of dealers won’t do warranty work for a local resident that bought out of state, and some that will do it only as fill-in work…
I have no problem with this at all, and for the most part they are under no obligation to do the work for you… if you need dealer service use your savings to fill the tank and take the time to return to your dealer for the service… thats one way he keeps his margins up, by pooning your low paying warranty work off on another dealer…
this Forest River article best describes this situation from the mfg standpoint…
Forest River Encourages You to Buy Locally
Forest River, Inc. strongly encourages our retail customers to purchase from their local dealership whenever possible due to the following factors:
Our Dealers are as a rule, independently owned and operated businesses. Outside of those customers they personally sold products to, they are not contractually obligated to perform warranty service on Forest River products that were purchased elsewhere. There may be an occasion that you would be required to return to the point of purchase to satisfy warranty requirements.
Although many dealerships will eventually service products not purchased at their place of business, they will usually take care of their customers and other Forest River customers who are traveling away from their local dealer as they would their own.
Local purchases allow a customer to establish a relationship with a dealer close to home. This relationship provides the customer with a convenient location for service and support from a "home town" professional.
The opportunity for a thorough PDI (Pre Delivery Inspection) and product orientation is an additional benefit of buying from your local dealer. Further providing the opportunity for refresher courses or the ability to get questions answered much more conveniently.
For our Canadian customers, there are also requirements which must be met to bring an RV purchased out of the country to their home. Although not insurmountable, these requirements may involve such things as additional inspections and certifications, taxes and fees. Your local Canadian Dealer is a professional at meeting these requirements.
Forest River's goal is for all RV Owners to fully enjoy their RV experience. In light of this goal, and considering the advantages of buying local, we encourage you to be thorough when determining what product to purchase and which dealer to purchase it from as both are key to your ultimate satisfaction and the realization of your dreams
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JJBIRISH
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05/19/12 03:30pm |
General RVing Issues
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