Leaderboard

Spent a stormy weekend at T. H. Stone State Park near Apalachicola, Fl. The "Forgotten Coast". Very rural, miles of undisturbed beaches, and lots of wild life. Very well maintained campground, with or without hookups. A very worthwhile visit if you are in the area. https://www.floridastateparks.org/park/St-Joseph

Words fail me..... http://www.messynessychic.com/2017/01/24/and-now-a-diy-steampunk-trailer-fit-for-travelling-the-world-in-80-days/ John Davies Spokane WA

Thank you, we have will put it on our list of possibles...

R&K - Thanks, I haven't laughed that hard in a while, those pictures are great.. John- so you won't be going with this design plan

Hi All, I had the opportunity earlier this month to be interviewed by Stephanie and Jeremy Puglisi of RV Family Travel Atlas (rvfamiltytravelatlas.com ) for their podcast, Campground of the Week (campgroundoftheweek.com ). In this podcast episode, we reviewed My Old Kentucky Home State Park in Bardstown, KY. Laura and I attended the Eggs A La Bourbon Rally there in June, 2016. I thought some of you might be interested in listening to the podcast episode. Here is the link to help find the episode at camgroundofthweek.com http://campgroundoftheweek.com/campground-review-63-my-old-kentucky-home-state-park-in-bardstown-kentucky/#more-562 Take care, Dean

Well, if anybody could pull this off, it's Steve. And no, Steve, we don't need to see the video.

Get a 1/2 inch drive, 150 ft lb torque wrench. You will encounter wheels with higher torque values. A torque wrench is most accurate in the middle of its range, so you don't want to use a 100 ft lb wrench on a 95 ft lb nut. Plus the bigger wrenches offer more leverage. You can pick up a smaller 3/8 inch and 1/4 inch one as needed later for small stuff; and maybe a 10 to 50 inch pound torque screwdriver for little screws, especially if you work on firearms or fishing reels or similar delicate things.. NEVER use a torque wrench to remove stuff - you can over-stress it and cause damage. Don't use it to run down the fastener, only to tighten to the final value. Don't ever tighten beyond its maximum limit, and never put a cheater bar on one. You have to hold it in the middle of the grip area for it to work accurately. It is a precision instrument that needs to be used with care. A click type is by far the easiest to use. If you drop it, it may go out of calibration. Store it in a drawer or in the case it comes in. Some shops like aircraft repair stations have requirements that their torque wrenches are recalibrated routinely and often. For a car or trailer, close with an out of calibration wrench is good enough. Any POS Harbor Freight wrench will be way more accurate than your bare hands. People who say that they can correctly tighten a bolt without using a torque wrench are mistaken. When I went through A & P school we had a display of lots of different sized fasteners threaded into a steel plate. We were all told to torque them by hand to "tight". Then we did it again with different torque wrenches. Except for one or two lucky guys, everybody who did not use a wrench either over-tightened or under-tightened all the fasteners. By a lot.... I cringe when I watch a You Tube video of a mechanic working on suspension, drivetrain or engine parts without any sign of a torque wrench, especially when I see him banging the bolts tight with a big impact gun. It is stupid, wrong, unsafe and potentially dangerous to mis-torque critical fasteners. The exception is tire shops that install lug nuts with an impact gun, as long as they use a torque stick (limiter extension) set at a lower torque, then follow up with by hand with a torque wrench to the final value. http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/how-to/a6613/torque-wrench-101-how-to-get-the-right-amount-of-force/ John Davies Spokane WA

We always carry a bottle of liquid nitrogen with us for cooking but now we can get it right out of the spare tire in case we have an emergency and need to make ice cream in the middle of Death Valley! Oh joy :) Molecular Gastronomy made easier by Oliver :) Check this out - _________ -

I now use EcoSave exclusively. The small bottle of scented usually last me all season. I put about a capful of it, long with about a cupful or so of water at the start of a trip. It "splash blends" as we go down the road. Kind of lubes the bottom of the tank and wakes up the microbes. No formaldehyde, and would never put bleach in...I do carry a bottle of the dry, just in case I run out of the other. But I am lazy, and just splash the 'about right' amount in when needed.

via GIPHY