Cool Mods - Thread restored 10/18/2012
My daughter was getting a little warm in her bunk during our last camping trip, so I decided to put her a fan in to keep the air flowing. I had been wanting to add a 12-volt fan to the main livin...
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First - for MaddogBC, here's my tire carrier - very similar to yours except I used 1 1/4" square perforated steel tubing and mine also incorporates a F-150 spare tire winch assembly... Not shown in this photo is a nylon web strap running across the tire and secured to the frame - just in case the winch decides to let go... I made the winch actuator rod by welding a 3/8" square drive adaptor from Harbor Freight to a piece of 1/2" steel tubing and then welded a spare crank down actuator from my BAL jacks to the tubing...
I also mounted my Blue Tote underneath the trailer in a similar fashion but the tote drops down for removal off the square tubing by removing the hitch pins on either side...
To sunline 1 - thanks for the nice words... I'll tell you the fireplace story... When the wife and I went to the RV show last January we saw the fireplaces in the new Nomads... I asked my dealer how much the option was and could he get me one... He said he could and it listed for about $400 :R!!!
The wife and I went shopping and didn't find anything right away but some weeks later Home Depot had a 50% off sale on them... Only problem was it came with a nice Oak enclosure (mantle)... Well, at 50% off the $380 list price, that brought it down to $190 and we sold the Oak enclosure on Craigslist for $50 the next week, so my cost on the fireplace was about $140 - considerably less than the $400 bucks my dealer wanted...
Originally, there were double doors on the lower part of the cabinet where the fireplace is... I removed the center stile and had to fashion some filler pieces on the left, right, and top to close up the gaps... I then covered the wood pieces with wood finish sticky vinyl to match my cabinets that I bought from my dealer...
The fireplace is also a little heater too... Not much heat but enough to knock off the chill in the evening or morning... The intensity of the "flame" (lamps) is also adjustable with a knob in the right side door on the top of the fireplace... Here's a few pics on that too... Forgive the slightly blurry pictures - it was dark and cold in the TT when I took them without the aid of a tripod... Note that in the left hand fireplace picture, the OEM Surround Sound system had not yet been replaced...
I also added a few AC power outlets - one in the cabinet interior for the fireplace and one on the left side of the slide... That was my wife's request so we could position our verticle floor fan on the other side of the room not have it blow directly on her (she hates that :R)... I didn't post pictures of them because there isn't much interesting in seeing a picture of an AC outlet :W...
I'll be doing a Dexter HD suspension conversion (this is the one with greasable bolts and the EZ-Flex idler)in a month or so and I'll take a bunch of pictures as I progress through the installation... Here's a pic of that kit...
And finally - here is the link to my Nomad3150 Mods page on photobucket for anyone interested...
http://s19.photobucket.com/albums/b191/nomad27/Nomad%203150%20Modifications/
Les
I also mounted my Blue Tote underneath the trailer in a similar fashion but the tote drops down for removal off the square tubing by removing the hitch pins on either side...
To sunline 1 - thanks for the nice words... I'll tell you the fireplace story... When the wife and I went to the RV show last January we saw the fireplaces in the new Nomads... I asked my dealer how much the option was and could he get me one... He said he could and it listed for about $400 :R!!!
The wife and I went shopping and didn't find anything right away but some weeks later Home Depot had a 50% off sale on them... Only problem was it came with a nice Oak enclosure (mantle)... Well, at 50% off the $380 list price, that brought it down to $190 and we sold the Oak enclosure on Craigslist for $50 the next week, so my cost on the fireplace was about $140 - considerably less than the $400 bucks my dealer wanted...
Originally, there were double doors on the lower part of the cabinet where the fireplace is... I removed the center stile and had to fashion some filler pieces on the left, right, and top to close up the gaps... I then covered the wood pieces with wood finish sticky vinyl to match my cabinets that I bought from my dealer...
The fireplace is also a little heater too... Not much heat but enough to knock off the chill in the evening or morning... The intensity of the "flame" (lamps) is also adjustable with a knob in the right side door on the top of the fireplace... Here's a few pics on that too... Forgive the slightly blurry pictures - it was dark and cold in the TT when I took them without the aid of a tripod... Note that in the left hand fireplace picture, the OEM Surround Sound system had not yet been replaced...
I also added a few AC power outlets - one in the cabinet interior for the fireplace and one on the left side of the slide... That was my wife's request so we could position our verticle floor fan on the other side of the room not have it blow directly on her (she hates that :R)... I didn't post pictures of them because there isn't much interesting in seeing a picture of an AC outlet :W...
I'll be doing a Dexter HD suspension conversion (this is the one with greasable bolts and the EZ-Flex idler)in a month or so and I'll take a bunch of pictures as I progress through the installation... Here's a pic of that kit...
And finally - here is the link to my Nomad3150 Mods page on photobucket for anyone interested...
http://s19.photobucket.com/albums/b191/nomad27/Nomad%203150%20Modifications/
Les
