Good morning, JonnieMazda;
Like you, I also recently purchased my first motor home RV. I also jumped in with both feet; it is a 1987 Minnebago Elandan, and I am also learning about all the things that can be (and some that must be) done to keep a motor home RV in good working condition. Mechanically it is in very good shape, but the "home" part of the motor home really does need a lot of work on many little things. One fellow suggested that I think of it as a house that is built over the San Andreas Fault, and it is being shaken, vibrated, rattled, jostled, twisted, stressed, distorted, shifted, and in many other ways being generally taken apart slowly while it is being driven down the highway. It does seem that as I have been going through and repairing things, while doing that, more things are discovered that need repair. Not really anything truly major; just a lot of many little things. Of the 29 wooden covers over the bins, drawers, and cabinets, 5 of them needed regluing and 9 needed repairs to the latches. Little things like that. Another thing being done is to supplement or replace the existing incandescent and florescent lighting with Warm White LED lighting strips and "bulbs" that will be kinder to the batteries.
I was surprised when I put the portable spectrum analyzer in "sniff" mode and saw how much RF noise some of the LED lighting can make. That is why the old incandescent bulbs are not being totally replaced. They are RF quiet.
But I am glad that I have it. My Number One Son is coming back to the United States bringing his family, and it is much cheaper and more convenient to buy the motor home RV for them to stay in and use, than it is to build an addition onto the house, and the only way I could do that is go up. The motor home RV is much more practical, for several reasons. And when he is done with it, I get to play with it.
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