The Camping Part Is Great...Winterizing Though.......

#1nobby wrote:
...I removed my Kuerig coffee maker rather than take it apart to drain the tank.

You may want to look in your owner's manual to see if your unit has a pump cleaning feature. My wife bought me the single cup Keurig 2 Christmases ago for the trailer. With the unit off, I push and hold the "Brew" button for 4 or 5 seconds. The pump comes on and pumps out any residual water. The units with a tank may not have this feature...IDK. Ours has survived 2 winters so far in the trailer.

SoundGuy wrote:

#1nobby wrote:
Picking up Saturday morning!
I'm excited!

What took you so long? Picked ours up a month ago, heading out camping in a few hours! :B

Work. Life. Death. Time. Family. Have I mentioned work?
And lousy weather.

Used mine 3 times already.

#1nobby wrote:
Picking up Saturday morning!
I'm excited!

What took you so long? Picked ours up a month ago, heading out camping in a few hours! :B

#1nobby wrote:
And the final part of winterizing....getting it indoors for the winter.

Just dropped it off at a former dairy farm....huge barns with concrete floors. I will be last in so that I can retrieve it if needed in January....and if not....first out in the spring. :)

Picking up Saturday morning!
I'm excited!

poppin_fresh wrote:

GrandpaKip wrote:

hohenwald48 wrote:

#1nobby wrote:

downtheroad wrote:
You can always leave the Kerig in your rig and run some anti-freeze through the tank........(kidding).

Don't laugh....I've looked into it. :)

Just run a little Irish whiskey through it. Then you can enjoy the taste of "antifreeze" in the spring.

I thought a bit of Jameson was a requirement for coffee.

Joking aside, please DO NOT run alcohol into your Keurig in an attempt to "winterize" it. Very bad things can happen when the liquid in the brewer does not reach the temp required to turn off the heating element.

Store it above freezing and give it a good clean out in the spring with white vinegar and you will be fine.

Ya....I found a spot in my furnace room in the house....easiest solution.

For me, almost anything that will not withstand winter storage, or long-term summer storage, comes out after each trip. So that means no food or drink, or anything attractive to rodents, stays in the RV trip to trip.

Beside the 30-minute job of winterizing the water system (which I might do and undo as many as four times a year because my camping season overlaps with my winter) the bigger part of winter storage for me is hauling out the camping equipment I might want to use for tent camping off the RV season.

GrandpaKip wrote:

hohenwald48 wrote:

#1nobby wrote:

downtheroad wrote:
You can always leave the Kerig in your rig and run some anti-freeze through the tank........(kidding).

Don't laugh....I've looked into it. :)

Just run a little Irish whiskey through it. Then you can enjoy the taste of "antifreeze" in the spring.

I thought a bit of Jameson was a requirement for coffee.

Joking aside, please DO NOT run alcohol into your Keurig in an attempt to "winterize" it. Very bad things can happen when the liquid in the brewer does not reach the temp required to turn off the heating element.

Store it above freezing and give it a good clean out in the spring with white vinegar and you will be fine.

FLY 4 FUN wrote:
If you leave that duct tape on ur rig all winter until the repair of your fresh inlet flange the tape will be almost impossible to remove without mineral spirits.

That would be a $100 roll of aviation "speed tape" I used.

It'll come off....trust me.:)

If you leave that duct tape on ur rig all winter until the repair of your fresh inlet flange the tape will be almost impossible to remove without mineral spirits.