Mcb
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Do you have the Bluetooth app for the inverter? If so, by turning the “Charger Ignition Control” switch on (#26), you can disconnect the charger from the batteries… it’ll take care of the inverter noise as it stops it from constantly trying to charge the batteries. There was a thread a while back in which NCEagle brought this strategy to light. I’ve been doing it ever since and it works great.
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8 hours ago, ScubaRx said:
How could anyone be dumb enough to drive over a Nikon? Or, better yet, two of them at the same time.
Good thing you had a third camera to document the event…. You really do haul around everything imaginable in triplicate in that big ol truck of yours🙂
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6 minutes ago, SeaDawg said:
Thanks, @Fargoman. That's really helpful for others, to have true dimensions.
I don't have a microwave anymore. A few questions, with the convection option:
You can use metal pans?
Can you cover with aluminum foil?
I have two airfryers, medium and xl, and love them, at home. In summer heat, they pretty much replace my oven, but I use them year round. I think they're pretty much a mini convention oven.
In the airfryers, I use a variety of small, mostly vintage, mostly heavy Danish or German stainless pans, from my mother in law, and thriftshops. I've found the 50 and 60 year old items are sturdy, and clean up easily with a dishcloth or mildest scotchbrite. Plus, they're pretty.
I also have one small flat round pan with a lip, from Aldi, kind of granite ware look. It gets a lot of use, too.
We’ve used metal pans, and aluminum foil…never had an issue.
One of our favorite things to do with the convection oven is to cook things like chicken pot pies, or lasagna, or other wonderful things like that from farmers markets or the like while on the road…. No prep work, not much clean up..
Sometimes the best cooking is someone else’s cooking….-
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On 8/16/2021 at 2:23 PM, Teri said:
Mcb, what type and size of pan, bakeware are you using when using the convection oven? We have 10 months before our pick-up date by a girl can never be too prepared.
Teri, the inside dimensions of the oven are 12”x 12” I think. We have a glass square pan that fits in there and spins around with no problem…nothing fancy, just something that doesn’t mind if the oven suddenly needs to get used as a microwave..
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We have the curbside awning with wind sensor on our 2020 E2. The sensitivity can be adjusted, so as to keep the awning from “ over reacting” to light breezes of you desire. There have been occasions when I’ve disabled it, and we’ve deployed poles and lines to anchor down the leading edge of the awning. I do wish the awning had the legs built in to it like the older ones do. We tend to have the awning out often unless the wind is, or will become an issue.
I’d consider adding a street side awning to our trailer if I could find a manual one with the legs and optional anchor points located on the side of the trailer, seems like a good source of shade for the windows on that side.
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That’s a pretty amazing list of accomplishments..big and small.
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2 hours ago, Mike and Carol said:
Question for our Maine folks - I know summer is short in Maine and probably northern NH and VT but when is the shoulder season, if any? As we discuss returning during a less crowded time could we plan end of May or early September? When do things thaw out and when does the snow start? Mike
Once schools starts up in Sept things quiet down a little, but then of course the leaf peepers start to arrive in October. I think that September through to Thanksgiving is the best time of year in Northern New England. It’s quieter, cooler, fewer bugs.. and absolutely beautiful. The trouble is a lot of campgrounds shut down by mid October. Spring can be pretty amazing too, again, fewer folks around, but the weather can be pretty iffy.. and at some point the Blackflies make their presence known with an obnoxious degree of intensity……
if it were me driving here all the way from Texas, I’d aim to be around here between mid Sept and the beginning of Nov. and Id focus on Western Maine, NH, and VT… it’s a pretty time of year in the hills and mountains of that neck of the woods.-
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1 hour ago, Mainiac said:
Hard to pick a favorite? Which of those hammers always seems to be the one in your hand?
Lol, it took me a minute to figure out what you were talking about…yup, I like hammers. Depending on what I was doing with it, any of the four with wooden handles in the upper left were my favorite.. They were made by an outfit named Douglas Hammers… I’m not sure they are still around..
somewhere on this forum there was a thread about stakes for tying down awnings (I think) and one of the suggested products came with a really cool looking hammer which I may need to pick up sometime… I bet Overland got one… or maybe two..
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2 hours ago, John E Davies said:
I am almost finished with bathroom vents, to allow airflow out the roof fan with both the window and the door closed. I took this shot over the door a little while ago, right after I sealed the wood core with spar varnish, I thought is was kind of “UFO cool”.
I also added a set of holes into the closet to vent the trapped heat that accumulates in the top.
John Davies
Spokane WA
Well the project I’m working on isn’t quite as cool as yours that’s for sure, and is just getting underway.. but I thought I’d share.. All the potential storage space around the propane tanks has been nagging me for some attention… It just seems like a perfect place for things I don’t need very often but need a dedicated place to be stowed in Dearie. So I installed 1/2” hardware cloth in the bottom to keep stuff from falling out, and have got a couple of plastic “tubes” set up.. one for the grease gun and related stuff, the other for the winterization pump and the like. I’ll stash extra lengths of pex in a 3” capped PVC pipe that will be lashed to the hardware cloth behind the gas bottles, probably along with emergency short term winterization gear. I already have a garden hose that I use to flush the black water tank that lives in front of the gas bottle, and there is a fair amount of space in there for “something”… just gotta figure out what that something might be.. Judging by some of the older posts on this thread you have a very cool shop John, resulting in a small pang of jealousy on my part, though I’m not complaining about my workspace….
Dearie in the dooryard..
working out some storage solutions…
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We have a Highpointe in our 2020 E2… We cook all the same stuff with it that we do at home without an issue.. .. chicken, pork tenderloin, eggplant parm, you name it.
Haven’t ever tried jamming a Turkey into it.. it would have to be a pretty small bird …
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I figured out one of mine was loose because it was spraying water when I hooked the hose to it… didn’t have a 1/2” Allen wrench at the time, but I do now..
any project requiring a new tool is a good one as far as I’m concerned. 🙂
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2016 Tundra with cap…. E2. On the trip back and forth across the country this year we got 12mpg westward bound, 10 mpg eastward bound.
The difference in mileage is very noticeable when traveling under 72 mph as opposed to a faster clip..-
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15 hours ago, topgun2 said:
You might as well get three if you want to stay in the race!😁
If it’s worth doing….. it’s worth over doing..
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24 minutes ago, Overland said:
This screwdriver. I think it's the perfect utility drawer screwdriver that will cover 90% of your needs - for when you don't want to go dig out the toolbox. Compact, but pops out to a usable length, and has a good selection of quality German bits, which lock in place so they don't fall out. I keep one in the trailer, one in the center console of the truck, and one in the junk drawer at the house.
Oh boy! I need a few of those!
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I’ve been pondering this question since it appeared. While not entirely clear on what qualifies as a gizmo, I’m pretty sure I’ve got a fair number of them. Still, it’s hard to pick a favorite..
But while replacing my very tired old Milwaukee Cordless wet/dry vac today I realized that this is my favorite gizmo.. for the truck, the camper, for dealing with disasters like the time I sort of flooded the Casita years ago…
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So…this may not apply… but it’s a thought.
Our fridge (2020 E2) had issues from the get go.. worked great on AC, but was fussy when running on gas. There was no rhyme or reason to it, sometimes it worked fine, but would shut off for no reason, sometimes it wouldn’t ignite. It didn’t matter it we were stationary, moving, level, or parked hanging off a cliff… sometimes it worked … sometimes it didn’t.
In the end the issue was that the igniter wasn’t spaced properly, the gap was way to big.… see pg 12 in the Norcold N41X manual.. It was an easy fix.
might be worth a look..-
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It’s true.. there is a lack of East /West routes across northern New England.. if you want highway driving you’d have to go back down to Portsmouth NH, then head north into NH or VT.
if county roads are what your looking for…get yourself to Augusta, then work your way to RT 2.. this gets you through the western part of the state, into the White Mts of NH and over to VT.. very very pretty drive, and a good cross sectional view of this part of the country IMHO…-
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1 hour ago, SeaDawg said:
You "could" replace the leg with a marine hydraulic pedestal. That would be cool... and you could maybe find one that would allow you to raise the tabletop to counter height. I use the little table a lot for prep when cooking, and I've thought about putting a hydraulic pedestal on my Christmas list. (Santa gave the Oliver a lot of big gifts the last few years 🤔)
But, you'd have to mount it out a bit away from the wall to clear the shade frame.
Beautiful table. I'd want to keep it, too.
I like the idea of the hydraulic pedestal… hadn’t thought of that.. replacing the tabletop is on our list as well, and while I could built one, I’m keeping my eyes peeled for an old wooden tabletop with interesting grain patterns or wood species that I can repurpose.. I think I want to make it a few inches longer than the stock Oliver table..
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47 minutes ago, Mike and Carol said:
Looks like a happy group of Oliver owners! Hope to be visiting your state, for the first time, in a few weeks! Mike
Mike, you’d been looking for recommendations for campgrounds in Maine a couple weeks back... Lobster Buoy Campground should be on your list of potential places. It is a nice no frills little campground in a beautiful location in the Midcoast... If you ended up staying there and put the word out, you might find yourselves surrounded by local Ollies, as in the photos above...
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Original cushions and foam toppers have worked great for us.. wasn’t expecting them to but figured we’d give it a try.. glad we did.
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We all owe you and Dewdev a big ol’ thank you for putting it together. Deb and I had a blast, and will figure out how to be there from start to finish should there be another event in the future.
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If you end up heading north ( or East) of Acadia, and the border has opened, I highly recommend a trip out to Grand Manan Island in New Brunswick. It’s probably 3 hrs further along to where you pick up the ferry, so it’s not that far. The ferries run back and forth all day ( the trip is an hour, maybe hour and a half) and there are two campgrounds out there... I don’t know what you’re looking for, but there are beaches, whales, birds, rock hounding, endless cliff top hikes along the ocean, the 26 foot tides of the Bay of Fundy to marvel at.... lots of good stuff.
it’s a pretty cool place to visit. We may try to make reservations for a week in July just hoping that the border opens by then.
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Lamoine State Park is located close enough to Acadia for day trips but nicely outside the fray. Cobscook Bay State Park is way Downeast, and a nice place. If the border is open its close to Campobello Island which is worth a visit.
I guess the question is are you looking to spend time along the coast, or looking for forests and mountains... we got both..New Hampshire is pretty nice too.. don’t overlook the White Mountains.. .
We’ve got space a little further north from Mainiac where you could land if need be as well ..
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We’re looking forward to it!
Xantrex Noise
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There was a thread started in June called “How do I change shore power or generator demand priority?”.. I don’t know how to get it so you could access it directly from here, but that’s what it was called. You’ll find more info about using this setting on the inverter written by folks who know more about it than me. I don’t know what OTT thinks about this strategy.. but Xantrex seems ok with it, and it works…. And it sure beats either feeling around under the street side bed for the cut off switch between the inverter and batteries or unplugging the cord from the camper..