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RE: SPAMalicious Recipes Wanted!
Friends saw the travel channel show on Hawaii and they had Spam sushi on it. So they made some. Got the nori sheets and everything. Actually it was damn good although the folks put way to much vinegar in the short grain rice.
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mike4947
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02/09/12 11:43pm |
Camp Cooks and Connoisseurs
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RE: Trade Tacoma For Tundra?
Just one note: Don't let the dealer put anything in for a controller other than a Tekonsha product. P3, or P2/Prodigy preferably. Most try and cheap out and use a time delay controller. They are cheaper for a reason. Tekonsha have a plug and play cable for your new truck as well. No rewiring needed.
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mike4947
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02/09/12 10:09pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Parallelax 7155 - Can It Be Used with Honda eu1000i?
Thank you Wayne for the acurate details on what the converter and genset actually produce/use. Drives me crazy when folks use a simple 12 volts to calculate watts/voltamps.
As for a single battery drawing 55 amp I can say from experience yes. The battery may be almost 100% discharged but it will draw the full 55 amps. Not to mention the other loads the RV is using at "12 volts" drawing down from the 55 amps.
We have an electrician and an electrical engineer in our extended camping family and the equipment to test out our Saturday "discussions". LOL
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mike4947
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02/09/12 11:33am |
Tech Issues
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RE: Hitch Class
The rating should be stamped or permanently stickered to the receiver tube. One set of numbers (300/3000) means a weight carrying only receiver. Two sets means lower is weight carrying, and higher is the weight distribution using limit.
BUT, for some reason (JMHO it's a conspiracy among the welders) the numbers are usually on top of the tube. I bought a little flexible shaft mirror years ago that helps find them.
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mike4947
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02/08/12 07:44pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Leaking roof
We've found if a dealer doesn't produce satifactory repairs we call the manufacturer and get a list of "authorized repair facilities".
We "discovered" this from results of our full timers needing warranty repairs. Most manufacturers are happy to give you places that will do warranty repiars to your satifaction as it's their brand name on the line.
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mike4947
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02/08/12 05:38pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Eliminating State Income Tax
As a reply to a previous poster that said the limit would be 4% state tax. Well NYS also has a 4% tax, BUT they also allow local sales taxes as well. Here we pay 8-1/2%, IIRC NY city is around 10%, and the next county over from us is just the basic 4% state tax.
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mike4947
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02/08/12 05:32pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Charcoal vs. Propane
Depends, If it's late Friday night when we set up and want to grill, out comes the propane grill. If we've got the time or ambition then it's charcoal on the Smokey Joe.
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mike4947
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02/08/12 05:26pm |
Camp Cooks and Connoisseurs
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RE: Millicom speed
I use Speed test.net to check whatever connection I'm on. I've seen so called 4G spots with less than 1G download speed and lousy ping times.
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mike4947
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02/08/12 05:24pm |
Technology Corner
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RE: Revived Trailer Tire Thread (formerly on the 5th Wheel Forum
I might as well stir a stick in the outhouse.
Our extended camping family has RV's from PopUp's to buses. Leaving out the motorized RV's here's what we've found out over a 40 year span.
ST tires are rated to only 65 MPH except a few sizes/companies that rate them at 60 MPH.
EVERY, and I mean EVERY towable we've had has had tires that just barely meet the maximum axle weight rating.
After 30 or so years of flats, blowouts, etc we realized (and remember a lot of that time was before "China Bombs") that the towables that came with LT tires instead of ST's had on average less problems.
We noticed that rear axles on twin axle trailers had more problems than front axles. Best we can figure out it's because of the stress placed on the rear tires "dragging" around corners and sitting with side loading on tires. Such as backing up at an angle. We've decided to back up a few feet (if possible) beyond the final position and pull straight ahead a few feet to unload the rear tires.
Back to ST's: we found no diserable difference in tire life between ST's and LT's when used under the same conditions..ie covered/not covered, setting for months at a time, or regular use.
Also in coversations with a few tire manufacturer rep's we found the treaad rating for ST tires was rated at only 20,000 miles. We feel this is due to the "standards" ST's are built under having been last done in the late 1950's early 1960's.
So if at all possible we make a condition on purchasing towables that any ST tires be replaced with equivalent or higher rated LT tires. Not to mention actual scale weights on each axle as delivered and tires not more than 1 year old at purchase of the towable.
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mike4947
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02/08/12 05:17pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: Trans Temp Gauge
Since I leave the Allisons to folks that know what they are doing, can anyone tell me just where the sensing probe is mounted?
Makes a lot of difference between the pan and an outlet or test port.
I know several folks with gassers that fried a trans (fluid brown and smelled) and needed a rebuild and never had the gauge go above 210 with sensors mounted in the pan. Takes a lot of heat to get all that fluid in the pan up to what's actually going on in the trnas.
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mike4947
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02/07/12 09:57am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: How to protect trailer (and us) from lightning?
I have to agree with Jeff. IF lightening decides it's oing to hit you, you're hit.
As a couple of antecedences:
We used to go to a beach near our favorite campground and dig for (I forgot the name of them) glass formed when the lightening hit the sand. Have some really cool sculptures of glass. Some look like trees when inverted.
Another time when a storm was approaching all of a sudden all the hair on my head litterally stood on end. I was cose enough to the RV to dive inside. The lightening hit a tree about 10 foot from the camper and exploded the trunk. We were picking splinters up for a week.
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mike4947
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02/07/12 01:51am |
Tech Issues
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RE: Not as young as we used to be.....
Let's see what my slightly senile mind can come up with.
Since there was only two of us and we both slept on the same end we'd just take the other end mattress and flop it on top of "our end". Helped a lot.
As for egg crate and foam toppers don't forget you don't have to match exactly what's there. Just by bigger. An electric knife works well to cut them down to size.
As for space over the existing mattress PopUp's are all different. We've had ones that a swear a sheet on the mattress kept the roof from closing and another model from the same manufacturer have 6-7 inches of clearance. The tissue box test is a good check. But even if it crunches a bit don't forget unless it's completely flat it'll still show you how much room you have. Don't forget to tuck in the canvas as it takes up space as well.
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mike4947
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02/06/12 11:02pm |
Folding Trailers
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RE: City water connection and plugging into a gen.
As for the water, nothing you have to do. There is a one way valve in the city water connection that keeps water in when using the RV's pump; and another in the pump that keeps the water from backfilling the fresh water tank.
They had to make it simple so people like me can't screw it up.
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mike4947
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02/06/12 08:24pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: Email problems
We've found folks that get "Hacked" their contact list gets taken and resold to various spammers. Unverified emails go for about $.10 a hundred. Verifed as active can net a spammer as much as $.10 for each contact. Having the account of the "user" for spamming their list just makes it more valuable.
Sell the list a few hundred times and there's real money. Once the contact list has been stolen there's not much you can do to except change emails and notify all your contacts about the change.
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mike4947
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02/06/12 05:47pm |
Technology Corner
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RE: Bonding a generator
Can't say for sure if every RV has all it's outlets protected by GFCI's, but everyone I've worked on daisy chains the outlets with the first in line being the GFCI. That way all the outlets are GFCI protected. Even found a few very high end RV's with GFCI breakers.
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mike4947
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02/06/12 05:34pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: Continuously variable transmissions
Vauxhall used one back in the 60's. Their problem then was wearing tracks in the pullies and the "car" would stick at that point. Needless to say you don't see many Vauxhalls today.
As for the chains used they date back to the late 1890's. Originally called "silent chain". Later versions were called "hivo chain".
Got to go on a plant tour where people would hand lace up the plates on pins that made up the silent chain, and the automated (high volume) HiVo chain assembly lines.
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mike4947
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02/06/12 12:53am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: CCA on a battery
The major objection I have with Optima batteries is their price versus their capacity.
They are made with curved plates which will hold up better to vibration and shock loading than your regular flat plate battery, But the manufacturing cost is quite a bit higher. Which translates into a higher selling price per amp.
Also that for any equal sized battery..ie group 24, group 27, etc they have apx 70 percent of the capacity in amps as your "regular" AGM or flooded cell battery.
Since I have no intension of taking an RV offshore boating or motocross racing I'll stick with the lower cost AGM's like Concorde/Lifeline or regular flooded deep cycles.
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mike4947
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02/05/12 04:09pm |
Beginning RVing
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RE: What is the MPG difference between towing and not
We've found it's about 3 mpg for an apx 2500 pound camper.
BUT, a lot depends on the actual HP. The lower it is the more the mileage drops.
On my old Ranger 4 banger it cost me 6-7 mpg, new one with the 4.0L only 2-3 mpg.
Even the A/C would drop the four banger 2-3 mpg but only 1 mpg effect on the 4.0L.
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mike4947
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02/05/12 03:41pm |
Folding Trailers
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RE: Gate Guards
OnStar uses regular cellular technogy. If you can't get a cell signal you won't get OnStar.
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mike4947
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02/04/12 06:31pm |
Workamping Forum
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RE: Do you stop over night at truck stops?
Well in 40+ years of RV'ing mostly in PopUps I have to say I've never seen anyone including myself open up in a truck stop for a night.
JMHO but it seems a little to much and kind of exposed.
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mike4947
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02/04/12 03:48pm |
Folding Trailers
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