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Re: The worst rig you ever had
While I've enjoyed every one of my various camping rigs ranging from an unknown brand of TC that was manufactured in 1958 through a few MHs and a TC or two I guess that first TC would be the worst of them. Siding was steel, walls were 1/4" birch plywood, seats were sprung and horsehair. Heavy. Truck was a '69 Chevy 1/2T. Pulled okay. Camper had an icebox that looked like a '50s refrigerator, and porta pot in a closet, and butane lights inside. No tanks, cold water city hookup to a sink that drained out the side. Lots of camping in it. Basically a hard sided tent. Got my orders for Germany and couldn't give it away. Ended up dumping it off the back at the county landfill. One cool thing, though, it was made for pickups with much taller cabs so you could look over the roof of the Chevy through the front lower window. Kinda liked that. Then there was the 72 Pace Arrow MH that, shortly after buying it, the roof peeled off at 60mph on I35. But that's a story for a different campfire...559Views0likes0CommentsRe: Need help - looking for non-slideout camper w/ big bathroom
Golden_HVAC wrote: I used to have a 1972 Coachman camper. It had a forward wet bath. The front 3' of the camper was dedicated to the bathroom! It had a drivers side closet, passenger side sink, with the toilet to the passenger side. open the closet door, and it closed off the hallway. The fresh water tank was just below that part of the hallway. Behind the bath, the dinette was on the passenger side, raised about 6" to accommodate the black water tank. There was no grey tank in that model. Drivers side had the closet, then refrigerator, stove, sink, then a short counter before the door. Sadly I have not seen any models like it. It was only about 9' long overall at the bed length, so it barely hung out past the fenders. It did have a cabover separated from the bath by 3 orange plexiglass sliding windows. (it was the 70's). Good luck finding something! Fred. I have that model Coachmen. The Coachmen Knight series TC. I looked for one specifically because of the bathroom arrangement. It really does make for a large, comfortable bathroom. I haven't found anything similar in a newer unit. If anyone knows of another I'd like to hear about it myself. Good luck with your search and let us know what you find.462Views0likes0CommentsRe: Grill Re-Model for Full timing
A long time ago, 1st camper days, I cut the legs down and moved the bottom "shelf" up to the now stub legs. It didn't have side shelves so I mounted a couple of cheap handles on the sides. My setup then was such that I could leave the tailgate on my truck. Used it as a "porch" for the camper. I was able to strap the grill onto it when in transit and I could even use the grill sitting on the gate. Otherwise it could sit on a pic nic table, the ground or one time on a boulder. I was very happy with the setup.521Views0likes0CommentsRe: C-PAP machine and a TC?
Reddog1 wrote: Be interesting to know what kind of charging system that could charge the two batteries in thirty minutes. My charging system cannot do that. I'm guessing the two CPAPS are using a minimum of 5 amps, and the two fans another 5 amps. Collectively that would be 10 amps times 8 hours, or 80 AH. the type of charging system that you get when you're working, on the phone, and get what you were typing for one report in the posting you were doing as a brain break. It should have read three hours. No, that wouldn't completely re-charge the batteries, but being new at the time they would sufficiently charge for another nights use. For the two months that we full timed across the country we had no problems with the CPAPs when we boondocked for days at a time with a mix of long and short drives between stops. My point was that using CPAP while on the road is a rather simple and reliable process.639Views0likes0CommentsRe: C-PAP machine and a TC?
with two Wal-Mart deep cycle batteries (aH escapes me right now) and an 800w inverter we could run two CPAPs and two 12v fans for 8+ hours with no noticeable loss of function. A thirty minute drive was usually sufficient to re-charge the batts. Been doing it this way since '09 and slept well every night.638Views0likes0CommentsRe: Camper to Cab intercom
my first TC had the intercomm, it was hard wired. I think it was a Heathkit. The camper was an unknown mfg. but had 1959 stamped on the dataplate. The intercomm in the camper had a hugh, heavy 10" speaker mounted on the side of a cabinet. Great sound. The truck half had a big, steel cased microphone. Probably weighd two pounds. Pre-transistor it had a couple of vacuum tubes. Took a few minutes to warm up. Just too cool. It went with the camper. Shoulda kept it.508Views0likes0Comments
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