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This is such a silly, simple thing but once I discovered this trick I use it quite often so I thought I would share it. When sitting at the forward dinette by the bathroom, I do not always sit straight ahead facing across the table or straight out facing the door. I'm usually sitting at a 45 degree angle facing into the kitchen. The trick I discovered was to take the backrest dinette cushion and put it diagonally across the seat at a 45 degree angle. When I rest against the back cushion. it wraps around my back and makes a very comfortable backrest. I've attached a picture so you can visualize its position. Have you discovered other simple tricks in your Ollie that make a difference in your comfort?

As we patiently wait for our March delivery, I noticed that the 2022 Owner's and Component Manuals are now available in Oliver University. I have downloaded and used Adobe to link the Table of Contents to the document to avoid scrolling. Hope some find this useful, I intend to do this with the component manuals as well. Please let me know if you discover any errors. Cheers, Pat 1276727297_2022-OTT-Owners-Manual-11-04-2021-linkedTOC.pdf

As it may be helpful for those wanting to install the Victron Energy BMV-712 Smart Battery Monitor, I've uploaded this photo of the placement of our Victron shunt and monitor--under the seat next to the pantry. My tech built a box for the monitor and secured it to the wood over the wheel well. Also, he discovered another piece of wood on the side of wheel well where he was able to secure the repeater for our new TST 507 Color Tire Pressure Monitoring System (where that little red light shines). Since we now can use our iPhones to monitor the solar-battery system, I don't anticipate needing to look down into this hatch very frequently. Thanks again to all who responded to my original post.

I purchased the Oliver bumper, pulled their receiver off and replaced with a modified 2" for the reason mentioned above. The stresses on a hitch bobbing around on a travel trailer was concerning enough that I felt a "travel trailer" approved hitch was prudent. Oliver supplying a 1.25" hitch receiver is crazy making. If I was ordering the trailer again, I'd ask that the supply the bumper without a receiver and no holes drilled. It would be super easy to buy a 2" receiver plate and bolt it down myself.

This is what we carry. Does everything we need on the road. Cannot imagine us needing the capacity and volume of a pancake compressor, given what we would need to offload to accommodate the additional weight/space. https://www.amazon.com/Milwaukee-Compact-Inflator-Charger-Battery/dp/B08GY93W7H/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=milwaukee+m12+air+compressor+battery&qid=1638370806&sr=8-4

6 gallon is pretty big, I’ve got one about that size that stays in the garage. Like Bill, I carry a small 12V compressor that is rarely used but I have it just in case. Mike

Your link leads to documentation by SuSanA, a very worthy, loose knit organization that tries to provide decent,,waterless sanitation in many areas of the world for those who desperately need it. I hope others will actually look at the documents, and read them. I've read a bunch. We're so very spoiled here, and in most of the developed world. Even so, sanitation is difficult in remote areas, and presents difficultiesin urban areas, as well, as populationswells beyond capacity. Vault toilets in many remote parts of US and CA require pumpout. So do many remote dump stations. Volunteers clean out vault toilets in remote areas of the AT, via atvs. It's much trickier than a single nature's head. As my mother in law's proctologost said, everybody poops. We have to learn how to handle it better, and uddt toilets may be the way. we'll see.

I have never found a fix for this. It is really not that much of a bother. When I go through my mail I just delete the notices. It really frustrated me at first, not so much because it was an inconvenience but because it was broken. I just hate things that don't operate as they should.

The answer to your question depends on so many variables that it is almost impossible to answer. Assuming that you have an inverter that is capable of running this compressor, have the room for it, and it has the capacity to inflate or blow out all of the things you have in mind then the only other questions that remain are what level of risk are you willing to accept. If you are only traveling a few hundred miles, are planning on being near "services" (places where you can either get roadside assistance or other help), your running gear is in top form (i.e. tires are fairly new with good tread and are in good shape), will not be venturing on questionable roads or non-roads and have plenty of time to be left stranded on the side of the road, then don't take it. No matter where I go I always have three sources of air with me - a small 12 volt air compressor (110 PSI), a can of compressed air (used mainly for blowing dust/dirt out of places, and a can of tire repair gunk to be used in case my tire repair kit will not work for repairing a puncture. I've never taken my "portable" shop compressor since it is too heavy, too big, and unnecessary given the other stuff listed above. Bill

Do you have any route information? I assume I-10 through Houston on to San Antonio then north to Austin? Or will you take some back roads to avoid cities? We don’t do many commercial campgrounds, would you be interested in state parks? Texas has some good ones. Mike

As I mentioned above, time is the typical answer. It’s generally accepted that six months of drying will reduce pathogen numbers to a level that poses no health risk. So if you’re a seasonal camper, then you can just leave the toilet alone and know that it will be sanitized by the time you’re ready to camp again. But as I mentioned, that doesn’t work for everyone. My process is to empty the toilet and let it sit for a few weeks, which for an empty toilet should by itself reduce any pathogens considerably. After that, I’ll place a bleach solution in a garden sprayer, take the toilet apart, and spray everything thoroughly. That should kill anything else that remains. The next day I’ll hit it all with a pressure washer. I typically do this while I’m cleaning out the trailer so that I’m not doing a lot of extra work - for example, when I’m sanitizing the water tank I just make an extra gallon of bleach solution to use on the toilet.

I seriously doubt that any owners here "dump" solid waste above ground, or shallow bury the solid waste. It's just not the style of our members. At least, I hope not. A "cathole" for weeks of poo plus cois would be undoubtedly deeper than i'd like to dig. Is it "hazmat"? Probably not. Are kids or adult diapers hazmat, if disposed in a dumpster? Partially composted poo plus coir, imo is far better than plastic encased diapers, environmentally. Especially if bags are compostable, imo. In my neighborhood, we have a trash to energy burner, for non recycling refuse. I know that's not everywhere, but it's a good thing here . Check out this post, on how to responsibly empty a composting toilet https://www.livesmallridefree.com/blog/where-to-responsibly-empty-your-composting-toilet

Congrats and great to hear you seem to be having the same experience we have had with # 927. We too got the 2-5/16 coupler as an option - but with one problem - it pulls so great, I forget it's there 🤪 Keep on enjoying!!

You might find this thread from earlier this year to be helpful

Everytime I log in, I get a message that the forum has detected that I'm logging in from a "new device". Same computer I've used for years. Why this notice each time I log in now?