Rear Kitchen Questions
We brought our new Denali 293RKS to our new home in Green Caye RV Park in Dickinson, Tx. yesterday. Today, while loading her up, it occurred to me that although a rear kitchen was to our liking, it mi...
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Our TT is a rear kitchen and it has been excellent and would get another in a heartbeat. (Only downside is not having a big window in the rear.) I would expect a FW doesn't bounce around like the tail of a TT.
The roller catches that they typically use on cabinet doors and drawers tend to be pretty weak and sometimes are not properly installed or even damaged during the install. I replaced all of ours in the kitchen with Southco "grabber" catches as in the photo. They come in several pull strength ratings. There are other manufacturers but Southco seems better quality. We used to have to use a baby latch on the upper cabinets and a bungy cord on the pantry door. One time I arrived at a CG to find that everything in the pantry had spilled onto the floor including a full container of coffee. No longer an issue with the new latches. I also used a Southco latch on the pantry door with an integral microswitch to turn on an LED strip inside that I put inside.
Also, we used to get the stove grate bounce out of it's locating holes (didn't land on the floor luckily), a few things jump out of the sink and the vertical rod on the mini blinds kept jumping out of it's hook. Shocks cured that.
One of the best mods I have done is to add shocks which I did to improve handling/sway as well as to reduce bounce. Not putting shocks on a FW or TT is just cheaping out by the manufacturers and all trailers should have them if you ask me.
The roller catches that they typically use on cabinet doors and drawers tend to be pretty weak and sometimes are not properly installed or even damaged during the install. I replaced all of ours in the kitchen with Southco "grabber" catches as in the photo. They come in several pull strength ratings. There are other manufacturers but Southco seems better quality. We used to have to use a baby latch on the upper cabinets and a bungy cord on the pantry door. One time I arrived at a CG to find that everything in the pantry had spilled onto the floor including a full container of coffee. No longer an issue with the new latches. I also used a Southco latch on the pantry door with an integral microswitch to turn on an LED strip inside that I put inside.
Also, we used to get the stove grate bounce out of it's locating holes (didn't land on the floor luckily), a few things jump out of the sink and the vertical rod on the mini blinds kept jumping out of it's hook. Shocks cured that.
One of the best mods I have done is to add shocks which I did to improve handling/sway as well as to reduce bounce. Not putting shocks on a FW or TT is just cheaping out by the manufacturers and all trailers should have them if you ask me.
