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1 hour ago, Gail Dean said:
Does anyone use a single or dual unit instead of using the propane stove?
Where do you propose you'll get the electricity to run that?
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Come evenings or if I want to read during the day, I throw a pillow in the corner against the rear wall and recline all I want. I'm not sure which fiberglass trailer you're referring to that has a reclining chair. There was a Casita model that had two swiveling captain's chairs at the dinette (they did not recline) but none others that I've every seen.
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2 hours ago, CRM said:
Thanks, it came out better than I thought it would and I'm now very happy to have eliminated any chance of future moisture damage...
Well, you’re way ahead of me. This is the current state of disrepair in my basement. About to start rerouting plumbing.
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29 minutes ago, CRM said:
New PVC floor in and basement insulated with Reflectex. Still have to copy what @ScubaRx has done and build a new shower box but that will have to wait until after our thanksgiving trip down in the Keys. Will be installing a rubber mat over the floor too to keep things from sliding around.
Wow! That’s a great job. Still working on mine. Did you apply the the reflectex with spray adhesive?
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2 hours ago, Steph and Dud B said:
We do fine with our gas 3500. While I enjoyed the torque of my diesel, I couldn't justify the extra expense of DEF and the higher repair and maintenance costs of diesel for a 6500# trailer. Maybe if we were full timing or traveling extensively in the mountains.
I don't disagree with you, but as I said, "Personally..."
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Mike, as you've evidently discovered, the drain pipe is indeed only a friction attachment. I agree that no harm was done with adding a little epoxy. My guess that in all the excitement of hitting the deer and probably then slamming on the brakes, the weight of the gray water inside the tank was enough to cause a slight shifting of the gray tank forward thereby dislodging the drain pipe from the top of the tank. The tanks are not strapped down. If they were it would be incredibly difficult to remove one out the rear bumper.
Sorry this all happened, buddy. But, as Mighty Mouse used to say, it seems you've "...got the situation well in hand..."
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6 hours ago, Mike11 said:
Just joined up. Thinking of down sizing to a high quality trailer and learned about the Oliver. I have several questions and I am anxious to read what those who own one have to say about their trailer.
Your first big decision will be your tow vehicle (TV) and it will determine whether you have to make a choice between the Elite and the Elite II. Ideally, the plan should be to choose the trailer model you want and then buy a TV that will serve as the best. There have been literally thousands of words written about this, both here and on other forums.
I have gone through five different TV's in the past 15 years towing both an Elite and then an Elite II. Personally, for a comfortable towing experience, I would consider the very minimum TV for the Elite to have a towing capacity of at least 7500 pounds, preferably more. For the Elite II, 10,000 pounds or greater, diesel rather than gas and with any TV the highest payload I could get. If you make the correct TV choice now, on the front end, you will save yourself enough money to fuel anything you buy for the next decade. The cost of a wrong choice now will easily add up to equal another fully optioned Oliver EII over the same time period in TV replacement costs. Choose wisely.
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21 hours ago, Santa Cruz Lisa said:
...Another sideline. Months ago I asked for opinions of compost toilet v traditional flush/black holding tank. We opted for the traditional flush system and have NOT regretted it for a second. Oh, we did purchase a new holding tank connection cap that extends out and easier to twist (thanks to forum suggestions). The location of the hose in the bumper is great, but getting to the hose connection was frustrating.
Thanks!
I agree about the difficulty of reaching up inside the bumper to attach the hose. Many of us have discovered that it’s much easier to simply leave the dump hose connected to the outlet all the time. If you want you can attach a cap to the other end in case there’s any leakage.
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8 minutes ago, sgcausey said:
Do any of you have the secret on how to open an Apple created picture on a non-Apple device? I use a Chromebbook & Android. ty
There have been postings on how to open *.heic files. I just usually skip over them.
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On 10/26/2022 at 8:48 PM, Mike and Carol said:
It would seem to me that if Oliver uses a Suburban furnace that they would all act about the same. But, it doesn’t seem to be the case for some reason. You may be right that it depends on the individual furnace.
We were boondocking deep in the red rock country south of Sedona several years ago with some other Oliver owners. The morning after the first night, I got up and hit the switch to turn on our Suburban water heater. It went through its regular startup, I heard the igniter clicking, then the whoosh of the burner lighting, it running for a maybe 15-20 seconds and then shutting down. It did this the obligatory 3 times before giving up and not trying again until I re-initiated the startup procedure.
Somewhere during all this, I heard our friend's water heater doing exactly the same thing. I went outside and found him pondering why both of them seemed to be having the exact same problem. We discussed this for a minute or two then remembered "something" that was done the night before. (This all happened several years ago and my memory fails me as to WHY this "something" was done...) But, my friend had licked the tip of his forefinger and wiped it across the gas orifice on both of our water heaters. Deciding that action was the only common denominator, each of us removed the orifice from our heaters and carefully ran a tiny copper wire through it. Nothing visible came out but after replacing the orifice's, each heater started right up and ran normally.
Admittedly, I did go around the world to say that it literally takes "nothing" to interrupt the proper flow of gas.
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3 hours ago, Mainiac said:
The wall is still encapsulated plywood in our 2017. No problems, at least in the situation...
As this area is caulked and well protected from moisture, I believe you are correct. I've never seen a complaint about this area on the forum anytime in the last 15 years.
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On 10/25/2022 at 5:17 PM, CRM said:
Pretty sure that the insulation is original as it goes under the tanks. Looks like fiberglass in the pic but I'm fairly certain that it isn't. Looks and feels more like wool. Edit- It also has the lizard skin spray-on insulation which seems to be everywhere else other than the basement. Plan on adding some Reflectix once I'm finished with the flooring.
The insulation to which you refer was used in all the first 49 trailers. They bought it in gigantic rolls. Robert Partee described it at the time as the same kind of stuff used to sew up insulated coats or vests.
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4 hours ago, Steph and Dud B said:
Did not know this! I thought there was still plywood in the closet wall of my 2021 Hull #1150. Thanks for the info.
I do not know when the changeover was made, but I bought a half sheet of the new stuff at the factory last week to use in my renovation.
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32 minutes ago, John E Davies said:
As I said before, few people ever get them calibrated. Or you could buy one of these:
https://www.protorquetools.com/torque-calibration-systems/cdi-calibration-systems/
John Davies
Spokane WA
I suppose I'm one of the "few people" as I calibrated my Harbor Freight Torque Wrench about a year ago. It was not hard to do and I saved myself almost $105,607.27 by doing it with this method. Surprisingly, it needed very little tweaking but I thought it was useful to have gone through the motions just to make sure a less than $25 torque wrench was close to being accurate.
Oh and, by the way, I start my torquing procedure using several of these and this, then use the torque wrench to reach a final value of 90 pound feet. **
**Torque is usually measured in Newton metres (Nm), or pound feet (lb-ft) – the latter not to be confused with foot pounds (ft-lb), as one ft-lb refers not to a twisting force, but to the amount of energy required to raise a 1lb weight by a distance of 1ft.
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Out with the old, in with new…I am about to glue the outside flanges on, and the outside shower box should be completed. I purposely made it a bit larger on the inside and the back is square as opposed to rounded on the original.
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18 hours ago, aaronorange said:
Yep, the onboard Xantrex inverter/charger keeps charging with the xantrex inverter off. I’m not seeing the need to buy another charger. Am I missing something here?
You may be right on the money. I do not have the same setup that you have as the Outlaw Oliver is Hulll #050. As such, I can only charge the batteries (on shore power) with the old PD4045. Also, it supplies the coach with 12vdc (again, on shore power). I am just not up to speed on how the newer setup with the Xantrex inverter/charger is wired, but having both seems possibly redundant.
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1 hour ago, Katjo said:
... I’ve been a guest speaker at several conventions on Marketing and Branding panels so I understand what it entails and the benefits of marketing your brand. It really surprised me when we bought our Oliver that they didn’t have a merchandise/parts website.
Looks like you may be a keynote speaker at next years Owner's Rally. What time slot do you prefer?
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10 minutes ago, Katjo said:
What year is your Ollie?
His Oliver was built in 2008-2009. I believe he is the third owner.
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7 hours ago, CRM said:
…I was under the impression that no plywood was used in construction so I was a little surprised to find this. I'm now wondering if this something from the factory, or if one of the prior owners modified the basement floor? In the end, no big deal since it's not structural, and I wanted to install new vinyl sheet flooring in the basement anyway. Will probably just lay in a 1/2 sheet of PVC now prior to the vinyl.
The key word here is “structural”. Although, no longer used, the front wall that separates the bath and closet and them from the rest of the cabin plus the basement floor were originally made in-house from a very high grade plywood coated on both sides with fiberglass and gel coat.
These areas are now constructed using a commercially available 1/2” thick polymer plastic sheeting cut to fit.
My basement flooring right inside the exterior hatch was delaminating like yours from it having gotten wet so many times through the years. We store our hoses there and apparently I’ve occasionally stowed them away without making sure they were completely drained AND the seal on that hatch has been known to leak while driving in the pouring rain. In addition, there have been times the outside faucets were left slightly open and that water found its way onto the basement floor.
All of this is user error, but I decided to tear the entire inside of the basement out and redo all. This is involving construction of a new outdoor faucet and tank valve box as all the early trailers had a vacuum formed box made of really thin plastic. Mine was broken all to pieces and looked horrible. Also, I plan to reroute the plumbing away from that cold susceptible area right next to the outer hull to a more inboard position where it will be subjected to more between the hulls heating. My plan is also place electric valves in those lines so they can be isolated from the rest of the plumbing and drained if necessary. There will be some effort made to relocate some of the electrical wires in that area.
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12 hours ago, Mainiac said:
…So my guess is if you are in an area and really need a ladder put the word out, someone will bring you one. Oliver folks are like that...
Maineiac
Well, I need someone to come to Tupelo with their ladder and help me wash The Outlaw Oliver. We’ve got water, electricity and a dump station.
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5 hours ago, Zodd said:
I know people have talked about this a lot on this forum, but this reporting is really eye opening.
It is really stunning some of the stories from this investigation.
Since this 3 own a huge chunk of all the brands out there this is concerning. It is a long read but covers issues from labor environment to quality of end products.
I know it is often said "everything has issues" but this stuff is crazy! Thor with almost 400k recalls in 2021!
Really sad to see these companies report record profits the last few years while doing this!So now you understand why all of us bought Oliver’s.
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I don’t use a ladder anymore. After being bitten by some weird looking spider in the Amazonian jungle several years ago, I found that I could just crawl up the side of the trailer.
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8 hours ago, Dave and Kimberly said:
…because this is where we were in Nova Scotia when it went flat. And it was cold and raining!
Well, any other place and conditions would not have made for as interesting a story and memory for you guys.
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1 hour ago, Grip said:
I emailed Oliver Company but have not heard back. Does anyone know if Oliver Trailers sells the back long cushion in a version that is 3 pieces so the king bed can instead be made up into 2 twins. We love the king and don't want to transition to 2 twins but often times we are using camper with others when we prefer to set up with 2 twins. My husband already figured out how to modify a slide out table but I need cushions I can put secure a mattress pad and sheets too.
Call your sales representative.
Extra portable electric dual burners instead of propane burners?
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You're correct, of course. We've spent so few nights in the past 15 years with shore power, I tend to forget it's available.