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Posted By: btggraphix on 03/20/13 08:14am

Thanks Skipro. I had one of those but last year I let a buddy long-term borrow it because he's living in their 5th wheel. I had never gotten it filled or used it and then once he got the valcves replaced I realized how useful it would be to have at home. Now I have to buy another one to replace it! $50 is about right once you spend another $50 to get the valves changed out. Thanks for the lookup.

Posted By: Mello Mike on 03/20/13 01:48pm

Finally replaced the crappy old spring mattress with a memory foam mattress from Sleep Science. WOW!!!! What a difference!

While I had the old mattress out, I also laid down some insulation to help with the winter camping.

Pics and some installation tips: Mattress and Insulation Upgrade

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Posted By: JoeChiOhki on 03/20/13 03:33pm

I baked a Raspberry Sara Lee pie in the oven [emoticon]

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Posted By: dakonthemountain on 03/20/13 04:31pm

portscanner wrote:

Cooked and ate dinner in it at Camp Driveway after we lost power for 6 hours.

I LOVE camp driveway!! I've stayed there many, many times through the years [emoticon]

Didn't know you had one there too! [emoticon]

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Posted By: Lynnsr on 03/21/13 09:06am

Our Northern lite camper has a hanging cloths closet we never fill.

I installed a cabinet that holds three slide out file storage cabinets, with 5 inches of space on the side to hold hanging cloths. (with a solid stop so things don't go flying out during travel)

In addition the door on the left side only opened straight out so I installed 170° hinges (direct hole to hole replacements) for easy access.

Lynnsr

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Posted By: portscanner on 03/24/13 03:05pm

My batteries were not holding a charge, so I pulled out my two group 29 batteries to check the water level.

In the first battery, the water level was corrrect. The second batttery - two cells were full. Four cells were dry. Strange. But the batteries were marked as "24 month" and they were three and a half years old.

So off to wally world for two new batteries!

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Posted By: Buzzcut1 on 03/24/13 03:58pm

Well it took me almost 5 five hours but I took soap and a scrub pad and removed all the accumulated bug splats from the previous 12 months from the truck and TC then I washed and waxed the entire rig. Yes my darn Hands, arms, and shoulders are worn out. Now I remember why I rarely do this...lol

looks good though for a 10 yr old truck with 120k miles on it and a 6 year old Lance 1055

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Posted By: jtlingo123 on 03/24/13 04:25pm

YOU MISSED A SPOT!!! [emoticon]

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Posted By: Mello Mike on 03/24/13 07:01pm

Buzzcut1 wrote:

I agree, Eric. They both look great!

Posted By: PatrickA51 on 03/24/13 07:17pm

Buzzcut1 wrote:

Do you want to do mine ? I will pay you all the beer and pizza you can eat. never mind that could be too costly. I'll just take it over to the auto detailer that does mine.
And for your question what did you do to your truck camper today....nothing I vegged out in my recliner most of the day. [emoticon]

Looks good!

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