09-26-2012, 11:07 PM
Charlie:
I suggest you have a try-out weekend someplace that's a local call to your RV dealer. or a week. There's lots of things that you didn't pick up in the initial walkaround. (I spent 5 minutes turning the handles to dump the waste water tanks before someone came by and told me they pull out)
Make a list of the things to do when you set up and break down. Especially all the "umbilicals" that have to be detached and stowed. Lots of campgrounds have signs at the exit:
Slide outs In?
TV Aerial down?
Wife in Car?
You'll need a tool kit but you don't know what yet. I like things that take one handle and a bunch of attachments just for compactness. I found a set of screwdriver bits (probably 2 dozen) with a very full range at the dollar store -- you never know what horrible screw they put in at the factory -- but you can be less efficient making your repairs. I have a battery screwdriver plus a manual one. Same with a socket set. Heavy wire and the associated tools. I'm looking for a wire stripper for #10 stranded right now.
RVers are like model railroaders -- generally helpful if you have problems.
I suggest you have a try-out weekend someplace that's a local call to your RV dealer. or a week. There's lots of things that you didn't pick up in the initial walkaround. (I spent 5 minutes turning the handles to dump the waste water tanks before someone came by and told me they pull out)
Make a list of the things to do when you set up and break down. Especially all the "umbilicals" that have to be detached and stowed. Lots of campgrounds have signs at the exit:
Slide outs In?
TV Aerial down?
Wife in Car?
You'll need a tool kit but you don't know what yet. I like things that take one handle and a bunch of attachments just for compactness. I found a set of screwdriver bits (probably 2 dozen) with a very full range at the dollar store -- you never know what horrible screw they put in at the factory -- but you can be less efficient making your repairs. I have a battery screwdriver plus a manual one. Same with a socket set. Heavy wire and the associated tools. I'm looking for a wire stripper for #10 stranded right now.
RVers are like model railroaders -- generally helpful if you have problems.
David
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.
