Travel Forum / Travel Types / RV Travel / June 2005

Friday, June 24: We made it to Pensacola and home today.
As difficult as it was we got up and had the motorhome at the Chevy
Dealer by about 7AM.  The mechanic met us with his handy tester.  He
plugged it in and away we went on another test drive.  Sure enough

Finally got some more pics added......
peruse at your pleasure  :)
www.richandlaurie.com

We are now in Boise, ID and my husband got us hooked into a wireless router
so I can read and use this newsgroup for awhile.  It is fun to see so many
of the same names still saying many of the same things.  lol  We will be
here for a few weeks and then will be in Washington and ...

Some kind of glitch in the newsgroup server yesterday.  Suddenly every
post after 4:26 PM disappeared or showed up as "expired".
This morning I find there is a gap from 4:26 to 9:41 PM.... no posts
during that time period.  I have 3 newsgroup servers and they all said

First:  No math, please.
Can 2 12V Optima batteries do the same job with an inverter that 4 golf
car 6V batteries can?
What size inverter charger can the 2 optimas support?

Damn hardware on the awning keeps breaking.  The awning is
"Carefree of Colorado".  First the slide lever that toggles
the 'up/down' switch broke, but I had a workaround so kept
on truckin.  Next the screw clamp that holds the slide bar

If i have a constant 250 w. load ... will  using a 600 w. inverter
instead of a 400 w. inverter drain my Batteries any quicker ?
Thank you.

Hello again,
My neighbor brought his '64 Chev over today to get a count on the
differential gearing. I counted 37.25 turns of the driveshaft for 20 turns
of the wheel. Looks like a 1:3.73 ratio. So, if he wants a higher top end

22 June 2005
Lake Leberge, Yukon
When I was about 11 years old, I fell in with a disreputable crowd:  Jack London, R.L. Stevenson,
Rudyard Kipling, Robert Service, and of course the arch vagabond himself, Mark Twain.  When I wasn't

I have posted here a few times but mostly i am a lurker.
I enjoy greatly the postings and travel logs that are posted
here. My name is Gil J and i am a few days from 68 yrs. old.
I have an old class c mh that i use locally to pull my boat to

I can not find the NG reply telling me about a front end service bulletin
for the Ford F53 MH chassis.
It involved a small stabilizer installation to eliminate a shimmy.
If anyone has that information would you please post it. The dealer says

Stolen from someone else.
Last night when I got home my wife insisted that I take her somewher
expensive.
So I took her to a gas station.

A couple weeks ago you ask for DATA to back up my claim that nylon
absorbs moisture.  I ran across this today.  Go here
http://plastics.dupont.com/NASApp/myplastics/Mediator?id=190&locale=en_US
then click on Zytel® Product & Properties Guide, and DL PDF file.

Just a quick note on this subject, which was tossed around
for awhile. I did a search on the Sunline website and found
this;
"Bicycle Rack on Rear Bumper

He is nothing but a LIAR and now has gone on to posting things he
knows are lies. He knows nothing about me or my family. Of course now
that we own a certain RV park, we know plenty about a couple of
individuals in here. Nope, we don't live in a trailer park and never