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Tragic event. Three young men are dead, two others in icu. A nearby generator is blamed for sending co into their travel trailer. https://people.com/human-interest/3-dead-from-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-camper-faster-horses-festival-michigan/

Looks like you have a (probable) green light. If you're vaccinated. https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/19/world/us-canada-border-opening/index.html

Glad I could give you directions to the Fountain of Youth. 😄

We've had a Fantastic endless breeze for many years. Runs on 12v, with the cigarette lighter type plug. Great little fan. Also have a new less than $20 minimal fan, clip or table, runs on a USB connector to 12v adapter. .2 ah, but very little air. But, oh so quiet. Got it at Lowe's.

Any excuse to camp in beautiful Wisconsin is a good one, imo. Not this year, for us, though.

Well, I'll say "wow" to 1000 plus ollies on the road. That's really exciting. We're the oldest hull # on the mod team, original owners, but bugeyedriver/Pete, #14, I think, is just behind us. Scubarx was in the office doing his order when we picked ours up, for his original Elite. He is now the owner of #50, first Ollie 2 off the line when the factory reopened. So he's an original part of the team, with the next gen elite 2. Half our mod team is comprised of "old-timers," and half new.

Welcome to the group, Dan and Ruth! I'm sure you will have a lot of great times with your great trailer. Enjoy!

We applied eze rv gutter to the third tail light, as well, recently.

We've been sharing ideas and recipes here for over a decade. Tonight, in the rain , I did a jambalaya . I prefer campfire cooking,, but, well, if it's raining all day.....

Great choice for your personalized solution. Q☺

If you can get them. Supply chain issues, and all.

Good, thinking, JED When and if we ever run our Houghton ac long enough to get a lot of condensate off the roof, we'll see how our method works.🤔 We also lost the condensate line, with the install. The way we park and jack it at home, the condensate mainly ran off the rear curbside. Camping may be a different story.

We did ours on North Carolina, on our camping property. No way to use a heat gun, as we didn't have 110. That was 8 or 10 years ago. Prep is the key. Get all the dirt and wax off. It was fairly warm though, probably July, as the rhododendron was in bloom. We didn't run them far down the window sides. Instead, we angled the last few inches away from the windows. Don't know if that's better or not, but it has worked so far. Got all the windows in our littler Elite from one roll. Edit to add: it was only 7 years ago. I found my post. Even so, 7 years is pretty good. So far, so good.

@Galway Girl, did you add that pretty two function pull down faucet, or is it standard in the new trailers? We capture and store rainwater, at home. We have a multi-stage filter system, ending with .5 micron to the kitchen only, plus uv treatment. We don't filter water to the toilets as extensively, just down to 5 microns. Our home plumbing is on a branched system, with every run having its own shutoff. RO wastes more water than you get, unless you contrive some kind of fancy recapture system. I bought my mom an Alexapure (big, like a big Berkey), and a small Pur pitcher (with the plus filter) for drinking water and cooking. She actually prefers the water from the Pur, and, so do I. I have a calendar for changing the filters on my phone. The filters are relatively inexpensive, and even though they're a bit wasteful, it's more eco-friendly than bottled water. Like many others, we carry water from home, and on long trips, refill jugs and the tank from trusted sources, only.

Maybe you could try some self-adhesive d-ring patches, made for kayaks and inflatables, and a short length of parachute cord, or stiff shock cord? One on the bottom of the door, one on the side or bottom of the fridge to make a short retaining cord. I think your bubble on the front could be off a bit. (Ours often is.) Sounds like you may be a bit low in front, if the door swings so rapidly toward the entry. A few inches lift on the nose keeps you well within 6 degrees, btw. We do this, too, as others do. We often lift it a tiny bit on the road side, as well. It's all about what makes you (and the fridge) comfortable. The road/port side is where our heads are, sleeping.

Billy, BoB has used the same genset to run his Dometic. Here's his post. Do you have the soft start installed on your ac? We have the same genset, and have used it to charge the batteries, and run some power tools. Tried it with our little Houghton 9500. And it worked fine. Thankfully, we've not needed ac (yet) in the mountains this summer . Or any summer, for that matter. When you were seeing 1500 to 2000, did you still have it in choke, or in run? We don't have your inverter, so I have no idea. Actually, we don't have an inverter at all. We have the progressive dynamics charger/converter, in our older trailer.

I don't have your radio, so I don't know which usb connector works, but you can buy little adaptors on walmart, best buy, or Amazon to convert usb to usbc, etc.

I've taken that a step further, and I look for service/ technical manuals, and print those, too. The hardcopy manuals, stored away, have saved our bacon, in remote sites where we have no internet. Great suggestions, @Townesw

Maybe, just, maybe, you'll get to go to the Yukon. Perhaps even into Alaska, before snow falls. https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2021/07/16/when-canadian-border-open-vaccinated-americans-may-able-enter-cross-august/7992083002/

That's why we have the clamshell drains, underbody. Water, even condensate, has to have a way out. Occasionally, in humid, rainy spring weather, I see drips from the clams. I know they are doing the job. As far as the step, I'm not (yet) worried about drain holes. In use, no issues. Tucked away, folded up, i get some leaf debris , but easy to clear away . Even if I had drain holes, the leaves would stick. John e Davies is correct. Separate aluminum and stainless with a good washer/barrier/product. Stainless bolts are weaker (long run) than steel, but less corrosive with aluminum. Stainless is less likely to react with aluminum than mild steel. Aluminum fasteners are too weak, so forget that choice, imo Always watch for signs.

Others may offer different opinions, but I don't typically worry about different aluminum alloys . My worry is fasteners (stainless) and separation. There should be a drainway in every upright tube. Just a little hole, drilled near the bottom, should suffice, imo. Even good caps eventually leak. Water has to find a way out.

The bath door always looks "tweaked" if we're not quite level, which for us is common. It's still hung in there, 14 seasons in. Hope yours does, too. Our drawers in 2008-9 didn't have the "soft close." When we had the soft closers installed, our bottom drawer quit opening on its own. Weird . I think that's standard, now . New concept, ten years ago. The ikea drawer we installed under the fridge stayed closed for a year. I'm duct taping it for travel, now. I'm going to install some kind of marine latch though, by summer's end. It's tiresome.

Whoa, @GarryandKristi, we have good friends in Escalon! Small world 🌎

Hi, and welcome to the group, from hull #12. We're enjoying our 14th season in our 2008. Hope you have as much fun with your Ollie as we've had with ours.

We wish you the best, too, Pennie, in powering through whatever the circumstances may be. Stay in touch. We've all enjoyed your positive and cheerful input. We'll look forward to your return.