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Excited owners in July 2020. Been camping off and on all our lives but next summer as retirement is around the corner we hope to be camping much more often. Have thoroughly enjoyed all the forums and great information in learning about our Oliver Elite II. Not sure of our Hull # but am sure we can't wait.

It’s a great way to do retirement. We’ve really enjoyed camping and traveling in ours! Mike

Awesome news, you will find it is easy to pull, set up and ENJOY...

SharkBite fittings are very cool but they are a VERY costly method of repair. There are times when one can be a life saver, and the ability to release the grip and pull out the pipe can be useful. But I would not trust a fitting that has been reused to not leak. I much prefer using regular crimp rings and Pex fittings. The old school copper crimp rings are a royal PITA, but the SharkBite stainless ones are wonderful, but OTH you need their ratcheting crimper to install them. To remove one, you just grab the crimped part with vise grips and twist it. The copper ones have to be cut off! You can buy the tool for the cost of a handful of push SB fittings; the regular brass PEX couplers, elbows etc are cheap. The stainless clamps are only 50 cents each. This tool will do everything from 3/8” all the way up to 1”, so it works nicely for home repairs too, like your irrigation system.. https://www.lowes.com/pd/SharkBite-3-Handle-3-8-in-to-1-in-PEX-Clamp-Tool/1000224581 As an older gentleman I have a hard time crimping the 1” rings due to hand and arm strength. Slipping a couple of pieces of hollow pipe over the handles gets the job done easily. John Davies Spokane WA