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pchartrand

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Posted: 06/30/16 12:33pm

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I use the BAL Hide a Spare to tuck my Blue Boy up under the RV. Works great so far!

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Bigbird65

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Posted: 06/30/16 03:11pm

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JoeAngelicchio wrote:

Anyone store their sewage tote on the back bumper?

Joe, there is too much junk hanging around my trailer already. Here is where I store the 25 gallon Tote-N-Stor empty.

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JoeAngelicchio

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Posted: 06/30/16 03:15pm

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Yeah mine (32 gallon) goes in the pickup bed also, along with 4 bikes, bbq, wood, beach stuff, cargo basket(for transporting full tote to dump), etc. Wanted to make a bit of room in the back.

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Posted: 06/30/16 03:23pm

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I know what you mean Joe. I didn't show all the stuff that goes in when we are loaded for a trip.

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Posted: 07/02/16 10:26am

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Our TT has awning style doors on the upper cabinets, which is kinda bad: [image]

I tried changing the spring hold open/close mounting location however that put more stress on the hinges and I didn't feel like sourcing new spring 'do hickeys' and messing around with it.

My fix was to remove the spring devices, add roller latches and a baggage door latch in the ceiling. Worked perfect, now the doors are out of the way with plenty of room.

Here's the after, I considered two latches on either side so they were out of the way if you wanted to 'slide' things out of the shelf.. however I decided to try a single latch in the middle:
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* This post was edited 07/08/16 12:48pm by braindead0 *

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mrgreetis

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Posted: 07/02/16 09:33pm

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Can you show an 'after' photo?

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Posted: 07/02/16 09:39pm

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mrgreetis wrote:

Can you show an 'after' photo?

I'll try to get one next time I'm out there... I took a couple but they didn't come out very good.

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Posted: 07/04/16 06:33pm

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beemerphile1 wrote:

bbaley wrote:

chr$ wrote:

I was thinking of putting some sort of receiver on the REAR bumper of the TT to store the thing...

I have one of these (similar anyway) which is inexpensive and easy to mount. we use ours for a bike rack.

http://www.adventurerv.net/ultrafab-bump........75.html?gclid=CKu1hJPFy80CFceCfgodQJUAtw

It won't hold a huge amount of weight but it works for what it's designed for and only about $20+

That will work right up until the time it rips the bumper off. An RV bumper is not intended to carry any additional weight.

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We ripped the bumper right off our TT by putting a bicycle carrier on our bumper! We got lucky that it didn't come off on the highway! It actually ripped the aluminum at the welds!

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Posted: 07/04/16 07:42pm

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My bumper is 1/16" thick steel, fully welded to the end of the frame rails and the rear scissor stab jacks are welded to the frame and the bumper. Got lucky I guess, I suspect that all bumpers aren't created equal