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Ceiling Insulation & Panel Test

The summer sun is out and has gotten me thinking about ceiling insulation!! It tends to put some heat into the coach. Anything I can do to help prevent that is worth doing. In addition to preventing heat, I’ve been itching to get moving on several interior items. However; I’ve been sort of stuck as… [Read More]

O Water Pressure, Where Art Thou?

Have you seen the movie “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”?? I love it! It is goofy as can be and makes me laugh. Thus; the title of this post. Remember I mentioned the water pump cycling issue I was having back here? Well, it continued after that post. And… things got worse this past weekend…. [Read More]

Cycling Water Pump

Short cycling is the term used to describe a water pump coming on for very short, quick burst, then back off and repeating – over and over and over. Missy’s Shurflo water pump has ran great for months and months – almost a full year. Recently, however; it started short cycling. Why?? It happened at the… [Read More]

Missy Dash & Panel Cleanup Results

I first mentioned working on Missy’s dash panels and wiring here. That work is now complete. From a functional perspective, it was a major success. From an appearance perspective, it was a failure. The right side switch panel is much better with the replacement panel and headlight switch. The left hand console/panel still looks terrible. … [Read More]

RV Holding Tanks vs Composting Toilet

The motorhome/RV “sewage” topic – particularly composting toilets vs holding tanks – seems to garner a lot of interest. It has been beaten to death and it is one of those topics that elicits a lot of passionate opinions. It is almost dangerous to respond to the topic on an Internet forum. I figured I’d… [Read More]

Invisible Air Tanks

Tiny thing, I know… but I had to report it. Missy uses air for a lot of things – suspension, brakes, opening/closing doors, etc… To keep a supply of compressed air available, she has an air tank in each of her wheel wells. They are not supposed to be invisible but neither are they supposed… [Read More]

Solar to Power the Water Heater?

I am preparing to enter ‘old age’ a little later this year and, while cold showers are wonderfully beneficial – I wrote about them here, the last few have convinced me that I ought to think about a heater to warm up the water. I think I may be on the edge of heart attack… [Read More]

Working on Missy’s Dash and Wiring

This past weekend I decided it was time to do some work on Missy’s dash and wiring. She originally had an audio/visual system that included numerous video screens for the passengers to view movies and such. A great deal of wiring was routed thru the J-box and dash to a control head mounted where my… [Read More]

Dimmable Ceiling LED Light Panels

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!! No… I’m not installing ceiling lights in Missy yet… 🙁 Fear not though… I have been making out just fine with some temporary LED light strips. However; I am getting close!  I still need to decide on ceiling panels and get them installed. That thinking forced me to think about the lights… [Read More]

Engine Immersion Heater Testing

I’m not sure if I mentioned it previously so again… I found a 120VAC engine immersion heater (or block heater) on Missy a few weeks back. How I found it was a bit odd. Missy does NOT like to start when it is cool or cold. In my little world this is below about 50… [Read More]