Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:41:28 -0700
Reply-To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Puzzling water drip
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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.)
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* 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
>
>
