Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Leavenworth TT - Pain, WA - July 28 - August 5, 2015

The tech at A's RV had to remove the brake assembly from all 4 jacks, then manually adjust the height. Then by bypassing the limit switches, he was able to operate them. What he found was that the left front jack had a broken wire on the brake assembly, and another jack had a cracked housing. The extended warranty people approved the 2 new jacks, and they were ordered.


He had all the tech papers.





I thought it was the 'Brain'. But not.


The toilet seal, he showed us how to use some Pam spray, to lube the round ball so it would move across the seal. What do ya know, it really worked. I think we will just 'Pam' it once a week so. The other item we were having trouble with, was our refrigerator. The temp inside was 44 degrees. Thank goodness we haven't lost any food yet. He determined that the left door seals were pretty weak. He said they couldn't just get door seals, only new doors with new seals on them. And the extended warranty folks said no. They cover all the electronics and working parts, but not the casing. That blows!
So I started researching the possibility of us getting a residential fridge. But we really like to boondock a lot. I'm just afraid that our 2000 watt pure sine wave inverter and 400 watts of solar, along with our 440 amp-hour battery bank, just wouldn't be quite enough. New RV fridges are around 3K and up. Hang in there fridge!
The temps were mighty hot and he fridge temp was up to 46 degrees. We will see how long we can make it last.

I finally got done posting all the pictures from my 45th High School reunion online. I have them posted on www.classreports.org. This sure is a great site for getting re-acquainted with school mates. No advertising or spam, and it's free. Just go there, pick your State, City, and school. They all are listed. There was no administrator for our class, so I took the job. If you want to see my work, Visit the Wenatchee High School, class of 1970, in Wenatchee, Washington.
Can't wait for 5 more years and our 50th get together.


One day, we headed into Wenatchee and picked up Oli (our Great Grandson) and spent the morning with him. We played at the park.


And went toy shopping at Target. Then it was Happy Meal time at McD's. Another great visit.



Saturday, August 1st, we lifted our jacks, which do seem to work for the moment, and headed up the valley to the Leavenworth Thousand Trails park. I took a couple of pictures of the rig while we stopped along the way.


Another beautiful travel day.

The TT park had a music festival happening that weekend and was pretty full. But we had reservations. They told us when we checked in, find a spot, make sure the power box didn't have yellow caution tape on it (quite a few of those), and we may be able to move to a better site on Sunday afternoon. But, we were blessed again. We found site #11 right away. And it was perfect. Good power with full hookups. Cool!


Later that day, Tim & Shannon and the boys came over from Mill Creek to visit us. We swam in the pool, played mini golf, and goofed around in the lodge.






I even beat Tim at ping pong. Oh yea! Still got it!

Today it is cooler. The high today is only 78 degrees. And our fridge is down to only 40! It's hanging in there.

And we finally had our social cards re-done. I put them together online at Staples. It was $38.00 for 250 of them.



Ta Ta....

 
 
 

4 comments:

  1. Fridge seals - Use a dollar bill to find the spots that are not sealed right. Close the door on the bill, so it sticks out. If it is easy to pull out, that is a spot that is not sealed. Mark the spot with some masking tape on the door. Once done, get a hair dryer out on low/medium and warm up the seal where needed, squeezing it from both sides. Don't get it too hot. Try the dollar bill again and see if you fixed it. This from a tech who said it often works.
    Residential - we love ours but it takes more battery power. The problem of running the big inverter/charger all night is the fridge will not be the only load on it. Since we also have CPAP machines, we need to run all night anyway. A smaller pure sinewave dedicated to the fridge will use less battery power. People find a 10 to 14 cuft residential replacement for an 8 to 10 cuft RV fridge uses 40 to 50 AH more battery per day. Our big 24 cuft side-by-side uses more like 60 to 80 AH more battery per day.

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  2. I just had the same issue with my dometic fridge, I bought a refrigerator fan on Amazon for 14 dollars and it really helps takes 2 d cell batteries. Its worth a try.

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  3. I do have one of those little blue box fans.

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