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Topic: So what did you do to your Truck Camper today?

Posted By: Mello Mike on 11/22/13 08:45am

Did a leak inspection of the Fan-tastic Vent after heavy rains last night. The Eternabond tape I installed around the vent last month worked great. The entire vent is bone dry. [emoticon]

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Posted By: CAJW on 11/22/13 09:35pm

Changed out all the CH751 cargo door locks with tubular cam locks. Look good and greatly reduces the chance that someone will happen upon our unattended rig with a key that lets them get to our stuff without a struggle.

Replacement lock source


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Posted By: cdbinns on 11/23/13 06:14am

Ordered it!


Posted By: Led 67 on 11/23/13 08:48am

CAJW wrote:

Changed out all the CH751 cargo door locks with tubular cam locks. Look good and greatly reduces the chance that someone will happen upon our unattended rig with a key that lets them get to our stuff without a struggle.

Replacement lock source


Just my 2 cents but most tubular locks can be opened with a cheap bic pen and such tutorials can be found on youtube...Scary what you can find on youtube these days.


Posted By: CAJW on 11/23/13 09:44am

Led 67 wrote:

CAJW wrote:

Changed out all the CH751 cargo door locks with tubular cam locks. Look good and greatly reduces the chance that someone will happen upon our unattended rig with a key that lets them get to our stuff without a struggle.

Replacement lock source


Just my 2 cents but most tubular locks can be opened with a cheap bic pen and such tutorials can be found on youtube...Scary what you can find on youtube these days.

Any lock, given enough time and an experienced thief, can be defeated. Those videos are mainly of pre-2005 tubular bicycle locks that were easily opened with a Bic style pen. Since 2005 the design was changed, making it much more time consuming to pick the tubular locks and this company sells Ace Tubular that are just that much harder to pick. I'll take my chances with these, rather than having thousands of people running around with a key that is known to open most RV cargo compartments. Wikipedia- tubular pin tumbler locks


Posted By: Mello Mike on 11/23/13 12:28pm

CAJW wrote:

Led 67 wrote:

CAJW wrote:

Changed out all the CH751 cargo door locks with tubular cam locks. Look good and greatly reduces the chance that someone will happen upon our unattended rig with a key that lets them get to our stuff without a struggle.

Replacement lock source


Just my 2 cents but most tubular locks can be opened with a cheap bic pen and such tutorials can be found on youtube...Scary what you can find on youtube these days.

Any lock, given enough time and an experienced thief, can be defeated. Those videos are mainly of pre-2005 tubular bicycle locks that were easily opened with a Bic style pen. Since 2005 the design was changed, making it much more time consuming to pick the tubular locks and this company sells Ace Tubular that are just that much harder to pick. I'll take my chances with these, rather than having thousands of people running around with a key that is known to open most RV cargo compartments. Wikipedia- tubular pin tumbler locks


The Bic Pen trick doesn't work on these locks, the Bic Pens are too large. I installed these in my TC last Spring.


Posted By: Ripit on 11/23/13 07:21pm

I didn't have a TV so I installed a Jack Antenna and a 19" 12 volt TV. Just finished it up and I get 38 channels. 30 of the channels are in Spanish so I those don't do me any good but the others are great.


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Posted By: Buzzcut1 on 11/23/13 07:25pm

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Posted By: Wallace 9967 on 11/24/13 09:50am

Locks are designed to keep HONEST MEN ...honest!


Posted By: Buzzcut1 on 11/24/13 11:12am

watched a bear walk by my window as I was eating breakfast

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