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  1. About the same here in Yuma, as Jim and Alice. Temp 58. In the sun and out of the wind, not too bad, but don't walk around the corner to the shade and wind. Took about a second for me to cancel my morning walk!
  2. bobsallyh

    Propane

    Where was this CW? Hopefully you told them to "go pound sand"!
  3. Can't you buy a new motor at an RV parts joint? I replaced a Fantastic Fan motor last fall that I got locally.
  4. Great crowd, the largest we have seen in the years we have attended. Great weather. The porty pottie outfit they had lined up called at the last minute and said "nobody available" to deliver them. They fortunately got another outfit and they delivered. Band played and was also good. The caterer had hotdogs, chips and water. The RV dealer that had display units on site had free beer and wine! I'm sure everybody had a good time and thanks to promoters.
  5. Blues, not much. KingDome never answered and I used the KISS theory. It didn't try to search and was not running. Since this is our summer travel rig, I wasn't really disappointed as we are usually in trees and drag out the portable anyway. Thanks for asking.
  6. Well the King Dome experiment is history. Couldn't get it to work, so I took it off the roof and removed the cables. Anybody that wants it, and is close to the Yuma, AZ. may have it. And many thanks again for the help. it was much appreciated!
  7. sandsys, according to the info given, it sounds as though food will be provided, at least what that is what I get out of it. Click on the above site, read the info and see what you think. As you stated, before we always pot lucked also.
  8. Escapees Quartzsite Happy Hour - Party on Plomosa ยท Escapees RV Club 2-6 PM Wednesday, January 19, 2022
  9. As a 50 year plus former resident of Chambersburg, mash your motor south on I-81 and get to I-10 as quickly as possible. And as Barbaraok posted, beware in some areas of Texas.
  10. Twotoes, if you are an Elks Lodge member, the Kalispell lodge has an RV park. This is what we use when visiting Glacier NP and the area.
  11. bobsallyh

    Washington DC

    When we went to DC to visit, tour, ballgames, etc. we always used Bullrun Regional Park, near the Manassas battlefield. Electric and water at sites and onsite dump station. There is a Metro station nearby where you can park and head into DC. Worked well as there is virtually no public parking in the city.
  12. The January 2022 SKP Get-Together will be Wednesday, January 12 at 10 AM. As always, it will be at Foothills Eatery, exit off I-8, Foothills Blvd. You may order breakfast or lunch. We had a good turnout in December.
  13. Txiceman, no, my manual is different. Ours is Owners Manual TracVision L2/S2. Also, there is no Bell instructions in ours. Thank you very much.
  14. I was up on the roof and opened the dome up. There is nothing in my manual either about the switches which are very visible. There are several satellite guys here in the Yuma area that I may ask. But what I'm thinking about doing, is just taking the Direct receiver out to the trailer, hook it up and see if anything happens. And again, thanks to everyone!
  15. Thanks everybody. Emailed King Dome and waiting for an answer. We did find the manuals and we have SD. I'll come back with the results.
  16. We bought a fiver with a King Dome roof mount. Nothing was left as far as info etc. Only the ends from the dome down thru the roof. Does anybody know if this style of dome will support Direct TV? We use a crank-up Winegard dish on our other fiver with our Direct TV package. Any info would be helpful, thanks!
  17. I finally found the paperwork on the replacement unit. Trailer Refrigeration Inc. They appear to be out of business now.
  18. The December 2021 SKP Get-Together will be Wednesday, December 8 at 10 AM. As always, it will be at Foothills Eatery, exit off I-8, Foothills Blvd. You may order breakfast or lunch. First Get-Together for the 2021-2022 "winter season". All SKP's invited! Bring your Christmas Spirit!
  19. Try Shadepro.net. I have used them and they had outstanding service.
  20. The November 2021 SKP Get-Together will be Wednesday, November 10 at 10 AM. As always, it will be at Foothills Eatery, exit off I-8, Foothills Blvd. You may order breakfast or lunch. First Get-Together for the 2021-2022 "winter season". All SKP's invited!
  21. Many parking garages in the Big Apple have signs just as you are ready to enter "No Vans". Don't ask how I know!
  22. Off hand I don't remember the year but we had 1976 Prowler Travel and a 1984 Dodge window van. We were coming back to our home in Penna. about 1 AM Monday morning from a NASCAR race at Rockingham, NC. on Sunday. My wife was driving, we about a 1000' before the Potomac River in West Virginia on I-81. The Potomac is the state line between Maryland and West Virginia. She had just passed a semi that just happened to be owned by the Rockingham track owner and was still in the passing lane with a slight left hand curve. I was laying on the bench seat just behind the captains chairs, our daughter was on the next seat back along with our dog. All of a sudden all hell broke loose. As i reached between the dog box cover and her seat to hit the brake controller we rolled, did not know we rolled until I found our heads on the roof. All of us crawled out onto the grassy medium, but we were now pointed south as we had been traveling north. The semi driver was the first on the scene and checked us out and helped. Shortly the first state trooper on the scene and he checked to see that we were OK, but he also said that he really couldn't help because he was a Maryland state trooper and the WVA trooper would be there shortly. The van was upside down, the Prowler was right side up, but it looked like a bomb went off inside. After things got settled down, the MD. trooper approached me and very quietly said "if you are in the market for a new trailer see me at a RV dealership" in Hagerstown, MD where he worked part time. That Monday night we went to the salvage yard where they stored it to get some personal stuff. The propane tanks were still in the rack, so I asked them if I could take them. The operator said "take anything you want". For kicks I pulled out our 12 inch AC/DC TV. Later I that week I plugged it in and both voltages worked, now that sucker had to be like a basketball moving around the trailer. Fortunately no one was hurt, just stiff and sore for several days. What we think happened, WVA had just poured new concrete lanes on the northbound side but had not yet built the shoulder up level to the concrete. Since she was still in the passing lane after passing the semi, the tandem wheels dropped down on the shoulder and she over corrected trying to get it back on the concrete. The Prowler of course was totaled. The Dodge van had a new roof and passenger side door replaced, some body work and repaint. At the time the local Ford dealer had a state of the art body shop and that is where insurance took it. Stopped by and said "I will need that January 30 to go to Daytona" Would check every once in a while and it didn't move. So at years end I stopped in again. The wreck happened the last weekend in October. So they finally called it was ready. Our daughter took me out to pick it up. Fortunately she had hung around cars for years. We get home, she says "check the right rear wheel, it wiggles. So I checked the lug tightness first. Nope, they were ok. So then set-up the high tech jack stands and mason cord. Yep, it was wiggling. Pulled that wheel off and put the spare on, wiggle still there. Removed the wheel, re-adjusted the stands and cord. Sure enough, the axle was kinked. Went out to the body shop first thing the next morning and quizzed them. Didn't believe me as they repeated what I did the night before. Next day, we are heading to Daytona. Claimed they couldn't get an axle shaft. I went to a local salvage yard, picked one up, thru it and the floor jack in the back of the van and off we went. Absolutely no problems the whole trip. Finally sold the the old girl with 332,000 on the clock, she was a tough old gal.
  23. Kirk, I'll try to find the paper work, been quite a while. The first one he shipped directly to me, the 2nd, he had a RV repair joint here in Yuma that became a dealer and was bringing a load over to here, so he put my name on it, and I just stopped by and picked it up. I saw him up at Quartzite one time and he had a tandem axle flatbed just loaded full. He had just picked them up from outfits around Q.
  24. I have done two over the years. I got mine out of Tucson, AZ. What we did was pull the refers out of the cabinet, then layed it over the coffee table, (back of refer face up looking at you) that was protected by cardboard and a blanket. All the preliminary work that was inside the freezer box and refer box, that needed to be done was taken care of while still in the cabinet. Then took the screws out on the back that hold the cooling unit to the box. Then came the "scary" part, removing the unit from the box itself. I used a short pry bar with a 2x4 underneath it to provide leverage. While it was separating, "cracking" sounds of it braking loose and just popped out. Be sure to follow the instructions when applying the new mastic which is very important. The second one I did, it probably took me half the time of the first. Not a bad job, but having two people really help. There are some good videos online and the Tucson supplier also had very good instructions.
  25. bigjim, come on, nobody says "automatically" like Broadway Joe!
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