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We are planning an Alaska trip in 2018, perhaps heading out after the Oliver Rally or thereabouts.

We have reserved E-9 and will be wearing our bells.

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Hey Rob, we just returned from most of those places. We found a beautiful Forest Service campground on the East side of Lake Cascade in Idaho. It is French Creek Campground. We stayed there about 5 nights. I think it was about $5-6. Lake was filling up at that time from the melt off from the Mountains further to the East. Should be up by now. There was fresh water available. We had led a group of 15 fiberglass trailers on a 3 week jaunt thru all 5 National Parks in Southern Utah, camping in several boondocking spots and some pretty nice campgrounds (none over $7-8.) We haven't been to WY in a couple of years. One of the other members is going soon but he stated that campsites were few and far between due to the coming eclipse. That's probably the case in most place along the path, but you guys shouldn't have too much problem finding a "wide open space" out there!!!! Good Camping

Short of setting something really hot on the counter top surface, I don't believe you could damage the fiberglass very easily. A close examination of our tops will reveal swirls and scratches due to wiping them off, but you would really have to look very closely to see them.

What type of cable is it. HDMI, RCA?

The regular Oliver sponsored rally is in late spring of 2018 (early May) in Guntersville, AL. I think a Western based rally would divide the population of owners by making them choose which to go to. Have it a little later and we could attend both.

Mike and Carol and Pete too. They all live in your neck of the woods. You will not be sorry for any of those decisions. Retire when you're able and enjoy life. Buy an Oliver, travel and REALLY enjoy life. Our style of travel is exactly what you describe. We wander the country, boondocking, seeing the sights, especially the units of the National Park system, just taking our time. We recently got back from a trip of about 75 nights on the road. We were only plugged in for 4 of them. Life is good....

Tali and I both use a CPAP machine. When we were having the Outlaw Oliver built, I had 12 volt outlets installed inside the cabinets over our twin beds. I also plumbed a fitting thru the floor of the cabinets to attach our hoses to. I found that the commercial 12 volt cords were over $50 each and they had a proprietary plug that went into the machines. I went to our local home health office that provides our machines and supplies and asked if they had any old non-working power supply's. With two in hand (for free) I went home, cut the cords off, attached a 12 volt male plug and viola, free cords. We run both all night, every night with a draw of less than 4 amp hours.

IF you have a Blue Sky solar controller with a shunt installed (standard equipment before the Zamp changeover), or IF you ever anticipate installing a shunted battery monitor, THEN the wiring for the 4 x 6 volt batteries is incorrect. All negative leads MUST go the the shunt first in order for any monitor to be able to accurately measure the amps into and out of the batteries. Scott and I talked about this a couple of years ago. None of the trailers produced to that point were wired with the shunt first, but since they were in the "change to Zamp" mode it was never addressed. Since the Zamp system does not provide the amp in/out information, the above wiring is acceptable.

When we are traveling, we make the dinette down every night into a bed for Reacher, our 100 lb Doberman Pincher. Yes, that's as in Jack Reacher. Most of the time the post comes out easily, some mornings I must screw it in too tight and it becomes a four handed effort to remove that evening. I would just make him sleep on the floor, but he IS Reacher!!!

The entire door is fiberglass, it's just that with way the door is molded, there is no way to gelcoat the interior, therefore no "slick" surface on that side. To dress it up the company paints the back side. This is just like what is applied to the inside of the cupboard door and the underside of all the hatch lids and the table tops. I'm quite sure you can glue a hook to it, although as thick as it is, I would just attach it with screws.

John, the xtend and climb ladder that we have is stored in the closet against the bathroom wall. It stands on the floor and fits perfectly under the black plastic vent pipe that runs along that wall. I just wrapped a bungee cord around the pipe and the ladder and it has never shifted during travels. The clothes hanging in there also help to secure it. That's a pretty low-tech approach to securing a piece of equipment and I never intended for it to be my final solution. I put it there in a hurry when we were leaving on a trip. That was in early 2014 and it has worked so well that I've never gotten around to seeking a better way.

That's the way Pete says he sanitizes his tank. He will take a half a cup or so of Clorox and pour it into the hose and then connected to the faucet and turn it on. I would be doing my sanitizing in the same manner had I not installed the electric transfer valves in the Outlaw Oliver. Getting down under our beds to manually turn the valves was, in my opinion, just too much trouble. Now it is a simple matter of flipping one switch to reverse the valves and another to turn the pump on.

I can't speak to how Aubrey might inject the purogene, but when we sanitize our freshwater tank with Clorox, we mix the proper amount in a couple of gallons of water in a bucket and simply pump it in through the convenient auxiliary tank fill that Oliver installs on all the trailers.

This is a relatively new addition resurrected from the same type panel that was installed by the entrance on the early model (2007-2009) Elites.

Spike, This article will tell you more than you ever wanted to know about fuses. The ones in our Oliver's are like the ones shown as ATO (regular) but you will probably find them as ATC fuses. The difference being that the ATC has a fuse element that is closed (hence the “C” in the code) inside the plastic housing, sealing it from the environment to prevent corrosion from developing. The ATO fuse is open on the bottom, exposing the fuse element between the blades. You will need some 10 amp, 15 amp and 20 amp ones. The jacks in the rear are now being wired with fuses that are inline near each jack (like the outside front jack) rather than being fused at the box. They require 30 amp AG (all glass) slow blow fuses. I would keep a few of these on hand also.

You can find a discussion about his filtration system and other things in this thread... Hope this helps.

Lots of the owners have a custom logo designed for the front of their Oliver's. Just specify to them to leave off the standard front graphic and you can supply your own. You could have them install it or you can easily do it yourself after the delivery. I've had the same compass rose on our two Oliver's, both of which I applied myself. Mike applied his custom "Texas" themed front graphic post delivery. If you desire custom lettering, they can do that in-house. The fun is designing something that is unique to you that really sets your Oliver apart from everyone else.

Excited like you're 10 years old again and it's a month till Christmas. I know exactly how you feel. The good thing about that feeling is that it doesn't go away after delivery. It still feels the same every time you go out to the trailer. Even before we get home from a trip we're already saying "where are we going next?"

On a related note, I need the little locking knob for one of my awning legs as it wiggled out somewhere between Utah and Washington and was lost. If anyone is traveling thru those areas, please be on the look out for it. I too had called Fiamma back in early June and learned of their troubles. Strange that I had talked to the fellow that did the shooting several times in the past and he was as nice as he could be on the phone. I was told by the folks at Oliver that they were having to look at other awning brands for the new builds.

I bit the bullet today and ordered the Truck System Technologies model 507. Some of our members have successfully used this system for several years and many miles. As most of us do, we tend to travel long distances during our travels and this afford us additional peace of mind. This system uses replaceable CR1632 batteries that are readily available most anywhere (think Walmart) and will monitor up to 22 tires (The only use I can imagine for this would be if 5 of us were traveling in tandem, we could use a single readout.)

Why don't you have a mini Oliver Rally and invite all your "friends" wink, wink....

It won't get any better than this. As a side note, read up on the town of Wall SD and Wall Drug. I was there MANY years ago. It really is a working pharmacy (or, at least, it was then.) History of this area is pretty interesting

That unit is one of the original 2008 models. Since there were only 49 built, we could probably figure out which one it is.