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Mike, Ours had 2 screws, 1 each side, just behind the lower faceplate...accessible only after sliding the cabinet out a little. Hope the festival was a good time! John

Buffalo National Grasslands is about 6 mi south of wall...park right on the edge of a cliff :) Boondocking of course.

Update... I've been able to separate the pleated material from the upper and lower grab bars so I should be able to now route the new string. One of Mike's pictures showed the blind separating from the grab bar so I persisted until it came apart. I can now access the area I needed to. Now to actually restring, adjust tension, and reassemble. Will post result in a couple of days :) (progress...I think) John

Glad ya'll are ok Bill. Ground zero during Hugo was certainly no fun but I fondly remember how everyone pulled together to get through the aftermath. Safety during cleanup was so important for all. Best of luck and prayers for quick recovery. John

Bill, I saw Mike's post and it looks as if he was able to detach the pleated shade from the pull down bar which sure would make threading along that bar easier instead of using a wire. I'll try the wire. Thanks for the help Bill. John

Mike It looks as if you were able to separate the blind from the plastic pulldown bar, in the 6th picture, and that's where I think I need to run the string. John

Thanks, Mike, Do you remember how you snaked the string along the inside of the upper and lower grab bars and made the 90 degree turn through the brass grommets? John

You should try Jupiter campground, just inside the National Park....1st come 1st serve boondocking with many turkeys walking through the campsites. As you know, lots of hiking around. (2 years ago)

Are they still showing Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind every night at the KOA? :)

Hi Mike, I have started on this project and printed out all the diagrams but after the 4 frame corners are disassembled where do I start? Start at the spring and let the routing of the the string make its journey through all the channels and holes and back to the spring? I can't see how I can pass the string through the upper and lower screen rails unless I connect the old string to the new string to pass through those blind rails and through the grommets. The plugs on the ends of the screen rails can be removed by removing 2 steel pins on each end but it doesn't open up any space to speak of to run the string up and through the grommets. I'm sure I'm overlooking something obvious but can't see where to proceed after the corners of the frame are opened up. I'll put a call in to the company tomorrow and see what they have to say. But now I have things put back together and reinstalled. The night shade is being held up with a spring clip for now and will be ok until I can find a way to proceed. Thanks for any help :) John

Hey Ya'll... Wonderful vids! What type phone are you using? Reminds me of our travels there last year, but without the smoke :) John

Thanks for the updates :) Enjoy Yellowstone...hope you brought sweaters :) Happy Trails, Us

Hi Claudia, When we were in our Casita I had a similar occurrence, but only occasionally and it took me a while to figure it out. The Casita's vent stack exhaust is pretty darn close to the bathrooms ceiling vent fan and when I had the bathroom ceiling vent open but not running along with the bathroom window open and various cabin windows open, air would circulate through the cabin and exit the bathroom window creating a vacuum through the ceiling fan opening and drawing odors from the outside vent stack. It drove me nuts and would only happen occasionally when the wind conditions were right. Closing the bathroom ceiling vent cured the problem. I suppose just closing the bathroom window, to interrupt the airflow through the bathroom, would have worked as well. That's my only experience and may be worth a try. Hope it's something simple :) John

Haven't missed ours either, Mike. Took me 2 years to finally make up my mind and mine was a real bugger to remove the residue.

Steve, we plan to be there if things go well :)

I installed mine a few hundred miles ago...seem to be doing fine. Thanks, Steve, for the O'Reilly tip :) John

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RV Trip Wizard is usually reliable with this kind of information. And usually you can go to the campground website or call them to verify, being that you are in the planning phase. Happy trails! John

Maine and most of NH, according to my booking agent :) Dolly Copp National Forest (NH) does have some electric sites and water spigots are scattered throughout. John

Congrats!!! We moved up from our Casita LD 2 1/2 years ago to our O2 and ours feels like a mansion in comparison. Wishing you many fun adventures! Wendy and John.

Here's my 2 cents... I just replaced all shocks with the Monroe 555001s. I did so as a first step in trying to figure out the cause of sudden scalloping of both fronts tires. One of the tires was severe enough to warrant exchange with our new spare. As per Scuba Rx, one of the Monroe cushions indeed needed to be compressed to get 1 of the shocks to fit. I'm happy with ease of installation and time will tell if the shocks were the cause. Tires were removed to facilitate installation. Hull 996, picked up new in Jan 2022 and now with over 41,000 miles, has had its share of highway hard knocks, most of which surprisingly occurred on very infrequent use of interstates. The included photos show one of the shock "stems" bent and both front shock shafts were indeed sheared. The other 2 rear shocks were intact, though badly worn. Since both front shock shafts were sheared and only the front tires showed unusual wear I suppose they were the cause. The 2nd picture shows the shaft was stuck in and I pulled it out with pliers. John

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Good luck with the fishing and cooler temps! It was 56 here in Lubec, ME, this AM :)

For sure, Melissa is top notch! We love staying with her :)

Guess I'm doing something wrong here....usually I want to put the filter first but would like to know if I need to do it differently.