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All, Foy posted the following on the Oliver Owners Facebook page: "Oliver Owner’s in GA and FL. We would like to propose a Micro-Rally in October at Hanna Park on the beach in Jacksonville,FL. Comment if interested!" https://www.facebook.com/groups/OllieOwners/ Please reply if you are interested. Dates haven't been selected yet. As the post is updated, I'll do my best to relay information to the forum.

Wanted to post a few rally photos. Hats off to Coy and everyone that had a hand organizing this fine event. Enjoyed meeting new friends and seeing old friends. Additional photos are Welcome!!!!

Here is a very good youtube video showing how to easily replace the valve cartridge. I will certainly post the Dura faucet model number and valve cartridge part number when Jason lets me know. Thanks again.

You found it while I was typing. :-)

I finally found a pdf file online that shows all the pieces. It appears the little half blue/half red vinyl button on the handle pries off and you can take the assembly apart to replace the "Ceramic Disc Cartridge". The Dura faucet is guaranteed to not leak so they will send out a new replacement Ceramic Disc Cartridge under warranty. I just might get out of trouble here yet. Thanks. Link below (scroll down page to installation sheet at bottom). https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XV3F4L8/?coliid=IY8NTI5H3BA1Z&colid=8J5Y57AUK30T&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

The proposed meeting that was to take place at the Rally never happened. However, a number of things along this line are presently being discussed. I'll update when I can. Bill

Some of the Oliver owners I was able to catch outside.

Well, the ice is finally out on Moosehead Lake here in Maine. That must mean that it is time to wake the Oliver from her winter nap. The first order of business will be to sanitize the water system. We will get unscented Clorox 5 or 6% sodium hypocloride. We will make sure we get it from a busy yet smaller grocery outlet. Some of that which we have gotten from a big blue outlet in the past had spent too much time in a distribution warehouse; and had seemed to have lost some scent and maybe potency. We use a ratio of 1/4 cup to 15 gallons of water. Seeing the Oliver has 30 usable gallons we will use 1/2 cup of Clorox. The first step is to check that we had closed the valve that drains the fresh tank. Also we make sure the waterheater is still in bypass mode. We then add the bleach to a gallon container. Lower the short outside hose (the same one we use to pump in the antifreeze) into the container and pump it into the tank. Just to be sure we fill the container again to sort of rinse it out and get all the bleach. We then fill the tank. Next we go to the kitchen sink and run the cold water, until we smell the clorine and shut it off. This should also flush any remaining antifreeze. Next to the bath faucet, toilet, and outside faucet. This we leave in the lines 3 to 4 hours minimum and up to 24 hours. Drain the tank. Refill it with fresh clean water. Run the faucets again in the sequence until you can no longer smell the clorine. That should take care of the system for 6 months or more, unless you fill the tank from a slow moving city stream.

For our hoses, we usually sanitize while winterizing. We make up a weak solution of Clorox and pour into the hose. We move the hose so the water covers the full length of the hose, and let it sit while we winterize. We then blow out the hose thoroughly. Then we screw the ends of the hose together so nothing can enter. We are very careful to make sure the ends of the hose touch nothing while coiling. While we normally like shortcuts that work, we like running the solution through the short hose and pump on the Oliver to be sure that that part of the system is sanitized as well. That short hose has a sandwich/freezer bag put on each end and held on with a rubber band for storage.

Thanks to Coy and Foy and Matt and Scott for making this a very successful event! It was amazing to see experienced owners sharing their considerable expertise, and especially seeing the new owners excitedly taking it all in. I enjoyed talking will all of the Oliver staff, and it was clear that they were listening to our comments, complaints, and suggestions. These are smart business people, and I expect they will listen to our ideas. The sessions they had were great, but I am posting here to give a suggestion for topics at future rallies. The April Oliver Newsletter had a great article by Jason Essary on Oliver Maintenance. It appeared to me that most of the rally attendees are new owners, and they, like me, may lack the technical expertise needed for all of these maintenance issues. I suggest a how-to session from the Oliver Service staff on some of these maintenance questions.

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What about the notification on the board itself though? There used to be a red bell in the lower right if you had unread messages and that disappeared at some point.