[Greg]

Rudy,

Both the Asko and the Splendide were so bad I earned a certificate for appliance repair mechanic. When the Asko worked it did a decent job, but the key is guessing when it would work.

The Splendide was not only unreliable, when it did work it did a really bad job of drying and if I am not mistaken the reason for rules prohibiting the hanging of clothes on the awning arms at the fancy RV parks is due to the number of folks trying to get the laundry from their Splendide dry. For us there was no alternate unfortunately except for a roll of quarters for the campground laundry machines.

Our last coach had Kenmore stackables and they worked very well but were small. We currently have Bosch, also small, but they have done a good job and are reliable.

[Greg]

I think Toms shit is too thick causing ALL these problems……

[Greg]

Don’t shoot the messenger, but I would like to make some observations: –

• First, our coach is in the over 10-year old category.
• There are PC members that have coaches that are newer than 10 years old that may want to stay at the restricted age RV resorts. Would this not discriminate against those members?
• Without the age restrictions, the resorts would have to accept any RV over 10 years old, no matter if it is a pristine Prevost/SOB or a held-together-with-duct-tape plastic RV to avoid having a discrimination suit on their hands. The approval process may be what their association attorney advised them to do.
• As with anything, there will always be the resorts that have no exceptions to the age restriction. No different than 55+ only parks (people age, not coach age).
• Advertisers would need to advertise whether they are ‘mature-coach friendly’ or not to avoid any misunderstandings with the members.
• Bottom line, advertisers will not stay with the PC site if they do not realize a return on their advertising dollars.

June

[Greg]

Yes the brow window were standard on Prevost of that era, unless your converter capped the front.

[Greg]

Hey Bob,

Good to read your May update on your coach build. I just want to give you a learning opportunity while I’m in Evansville this September. Now I’m not doing a home built because I’m not knowledgeable about things electrical mostly. However, I have started a project to remove the paint up to the window bottom rivet line on my XL. Just in case I messed up, after all this is my first effort at paint removal and then, Polishing Stainless. I have been told that can’t be done. That is one of my triggers so I started the work on the rear engine bay doors. I left one as built by CC and started on the right hand door. I found a Citris based paint remover that worked reasonably well and would not alarm any local environment protectionistas. The problem with polishing a previously painted surface of stainless, an etchant primer is applied first to get some “teeth” for the final coating to adhere to the stainless. Now I’ll admit after paint removal I worked very gingerly doing the polishing. By hand too, I found that to be best, don’t ask how I determined that to be best.

I started with a 1000 grit wet dry paper and sanded only the area where paint was removed, by hand. I did not see any damages inflicted so on to the 2000 grit wet dry paper, sanding the same areas. Now it was on to using the drill, buffing wheels, and Black rouge. Black is a quick cutting rouge. I used a hard buff, denim with closely spaced stitching. Started only working on the sanded areas, later expanded buffing to the lower half of the door. Next was a Brown rouge with a little softer buff, then a Red rouge and finally a Light Green rouge with a very soft buff for bringin out the color of stainless and making it a mirror finish. I was pleased, especially since I did not get the metal too “hot.”

So I have proceeded to the drivers side radiator access door. This one has multiple air vents and the rear engine bay doors were smooth all over. By September I will have some areas in need of polishing. So if you want to have a learning experience, just keep some Donut Bank Fruit Fritters on hand for the instructor!

Keep up your good works. Looking forward to meeting you and your coach come September.

[Greg]

Harry, I’m feeling your pain all the way down in Florida and hope you get to start enjoying your coach soon.

Maybe I missed this post, but I wanted to ask if you had the coach inspected prior to purchase? I’m no expert in these matters and understand some of these items may not have been readily visible. But it seems that some of the issues, such as the batteries, may have been caught by a trained eye.

[Greg]

Harry,

C’bus will jump in here, but if you only have 2 house batteries, that will be your next project. I don’t know how many came in the Beaver, but doubt if it was less than four 8DA’s.

Hope you get started tomorrow.

[Greg]

sorry the slide stops after moving about 6″ if the inner tube is still inflated

[Greg]

Kirby I blew a CB on mine the other day I guess mine time is coming too. I found this place on line I’m not sure if they are any good but worth a look.

http://www.rvcams.com/p/SSM-721AMR-KIT.html

Fred

[Greg]

I agree with the above post.

But I do like the way the 365’s look! They bring the tire/wheel outward, especially make the tag look like it’s more in line with the outer drive.

If your steer axle weighs less than 17,000 stay with the 315’s.

[Greg]

Never seen one, not even on a “Star Coach”. The only ones are when a star buys a MH conversion. Geo.

[Greg]

I know Liberty has done that, and I believe they will also provide their service truck to large rallies. I don’t believe a long distance service call is unusual.

[Greg]

Thanks

I will try and set up a relay from the dash to trigger the webasto.

[Greg]

Thank you … Our intent was to try to make certain that the “coolant” connections did not leak before we connected the water and electronics. If the water is connected and the coolant then leaks, it is harder to correct.

We filled the heater exchage coils with coolant so there is no blockage that we can tell.

Nonetheless, I believe we will go ahead and connect all of the water and electronics.

I felt that the water heater would have some type of protection against allowing the heat exchangers to operate if there was no water in the heaters… I am calling Kuuma this morning.

Thank you… we are close…

Pres

[Greg]

Thanks, Tom. All set.