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Posted By: Ski Pro 3 on 07/03/13 04:06pm

Buzzcut1 wrote:

power failure in my neighborhood and its over 100* so we are sitting in the TC, me the wife and the 3 dogs, with the Honda 2000 powering the Polar Cub 9200 AC. It has cooled the Lance to the high 70s from 100+ in about 20 minutes.

We lost our power too. Then we lost water about 8 or 9pm. A BIG break up along Logtown Ridge near Crystal Blvd.

I have a Honda EU6500 for the house and it ran my home AC fine. Converted it to propane even so I don't run out of gas.

I saw the water pressure dropping off as I was watering the lawn, so we filled up the camper with 30 gallons of fresh. Today at 10am we got a call that the water was now safe to drink again. Without the 30 gallons in the camper, we would have been dry, no flushing, no shower, etc.

Posted By: Buzzcut1 on 07/03/13 08:30pm

I have an Onan 6500 that can run the house but I chose to power up all my neighbors refrigerators instead. None of the non RV owners have alternative power sources and most of my neighbors are elderly so I ran cords over fences and pulled out the fridges from the walls to get to the plugs for them. Took it all apart again when PGE got us back on the grid at 2200 hrs

2011 F350 6.7L Diesel 4x4 CrewCab longbed Dually, 2019 Lance 1062, Torqlift Talons, Fast Guns, upper and lower Stable Loads, Super Hitch, 48" Super Truss, Airlift loadlifter 5000 extreme airbags

Posted By: jimh406 on 07/03/13 09:04pm

Buzzcut1 wrote:

I have an Onan 6500 that can run the house but I chose to power up all my neighbors refrigerators instead.

Thumbs up!

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Posted By: Ski Pro 3 on 07/03/13 11:33pm

Good job Buzz. My closest neighbor is over 600 feet away (over 2 football fields). Even if I had a cord that long, there would be a significant voltage drop along the wire. I suppose I could have back fed them through the transformer, but the lineman probably wouldn't appreciate that...

We did tell the neighbors we had AC running and to come on over. However, another neighbor has a swimmin' pool and the beer was still cold. Ha!

Posted By: Photog101 on 07/04/13 08:49am

I finally got a break in the weather and cleaned the roof and let it dry, then put the protectant on it. For some reason, this past year all my neighbors and I have a black dust that keeps falling on our RV's and it took me two days to get the roof cleaned enough to finish it. I also too the TV antenna portion off the satelite antenna and cleaned all the rust off of the metal pieces inside the dome. Now I have much better reception. BUT with on-air TV, I am going to have to modify it for an HD type antenna.

Posted By: Rbertalotto on 07/04/13 09:18am

I finally got around to putting my hold downs together:

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300 pound porch swing springs, chain and connectors.

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TorqueLifts under the front that I purchased at Amazon

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These little buggers from Happijac were on the truck from the previous owner. But they were rusty so I replaced them from Amazon.

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* This post was edited 07/04/13 09:32am by Rbertalotto *

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Posted By: Rbertalotto on 07/04/13 09:24am

Secured my rear hitch cargo carrier to carry the Honda EU2000i generator and small cooler

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I wanted the generator to ride on its cushion feet so I installed a piece of plywood on half of the cargo carrier

I had to mount the cargo tray upside-down because there wasn't enough room between the carrier and the camper for the generator. I through bolted the aluminum sleeve the steel hitch bar rides in. If you don't do this you only have a few POP-RIVETS and four small bolts carrying the load

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I through bolted a few of these for attachment points. Bought them at Habor Freight but I saw them at Lowes also:

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To keep it nice and solid I use chain and turnbuckles from the camper. ROCK SOLID! Makes a great step to get into the camper also.

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* This post was edited 07/04/13 09:35am by Rbertalotto *

Posted By: narcodog on 07/05/13 04:58pm

Changed out my LP detector. They old one went bad, kept going off. I had to pull the fuze while I was on the road.

Posted By: Buzzcut1 on 07/06/13 12:35pm

refilled the propane tanks, doing the 24 hr chemical clean the grey and black tank probes, new battery in the smoke detector, and with $10 worth of wood, a skill saw, cordless drill and 8 tork head deck screws made myself a new set of curb ramps

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Posted By: TheCodeMonk on 07/08/13 12:18pm

Not to the camper specifically, but did some repairs to the truck carrying it. [emoticon]

http://waddlestravels.blogspot.com/2013/07/penguins-know-how-to-make-things-shine.html

1996 F250 SRW, Ext-Cab, 8' Bed, 4x4, 7.5L(460)/Auto(E40D), 4.10 Gears, LSD rear.
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