Great advice, Mike. Checking the lines under pressure is definitely something I'm doing next season* as there is a plan under development to drive from here in Oregon to S. Dakota for a family reunion. Just Mrs Squirrel and me, camping all the way there and back.** The plan involves staying in a KOA -- not my favorite kind of place but the family member who gets to call the shots next year has selected it. She criss-crosses the US alone*** in her fancy larger camper and likes to camp in more "developed" CGs. So there's a good chance we'll be hooking up to city water. I wonder if I'm gonna need some kind of adapter to connect the van's AC inlet to what I bet are some honking big 1,000 amp outlets normally used by railroad car-sized RVs. Dennis? (Dennis will know. He knows everything. Watch.) =========== * Unless I blow out a knee or suffer a palsy or something. Right now I'm taking nothing for granted. ** Offering things like camping trips or rides on trains is about the only way Mrs Squirrel can talk me into attending family functions. *** Alone except for her yappy little Jack Russell that all men hate for its tendency to leap up without warning and jab one in the dangly bits with its hard little front paws, to suddenly spring into one's lap, targeting the same vulnerable -- for men -- area. I've heard muttered promises of murder most foul for that animal from at least one of her boyfriends. And he was an otherwise urbane and gentle man, a former dean at Duke University. -- Mike "More Footnotes Than Content" Elliott 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano Bend, OR KG6RCR
On 8/27/2009 3:36 PM Mike Collum wrote: > Rocket J Squirrel wrote: >> Is there some place to inspect for dampness that doesn't require much in >> the way of disassembly of cabinets and appliances? > > > I would remove the outside utility ports and reach inside to feel the > fiberglass for wetness. > > While the ports were off I'd also run the sink pump and, if I were > planning on using it, hook a hose to the city water port. That way, the > lines that can't normally be seen can be tested for watertightness. > > Mike > > |
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