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<\/a>Crack in the base.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Crack all the way through.<\/p><\/div>\n
I was a bit discouraged when I had to replace a cracked vent\/fan that I put in last fall and had not even used yet. \u00a0It was ok for a while, then I had a steady drip flowing into a bucket. \u00a0After several emails, climbing on the trailer to take a picture in the rain, I was given the go ahead to send it back to be replaced. \u00a0I removed the errant vent and sent it back, waiting for it’s return with a big hole in my roof for a week during the Upstate NY flood season (plastic covers do turn the finish on aluminum brown). \u00a0The replacement vent came with a different number of holes in different locations — it kills me every time I have to drill into Rosie’s skin. \u00a0The weekend I was installing the replacement, I happened to be listening to the VAP<\/a> episode where Colin<\/a> and Frank<\/a> were talking about cracked vents and installation suggestions. \u00a0I wish I had heard it last fall when I put in the 3 new vents. \u00a0The irony is that I put these new vents in to stop the leaking occurring with the old vents (as well as to have functional fans). \u00a0In spite of my whining about the process, the manufacturer did replace the vent, I just had to pay the shipping to send back the cracked one.<\/p>\n Fletch's trailer moving method.<\/p><\/div>\n Fletch<\/a> cut the new metal tube and loaded the new spring for the ZipDee<\/a> awning. \u00a0Also ended up with new end brackets and and restraining wheels. \u00a0I was able to reuse the awning material, but it still wasn’t a cheap fix. \u00a0It was worth it, the awning is like having another room with the trailer. \u00a0I will love sitting under it in the nice cool shade at Bash II<\/a>.<\/p>\n New water intake<\/p><\/div>\n Water was leaking into the fresh water tank via the water intake on a regular basis before I gutted the trailer, leaving standing water in the tank to grow algae. \u00a0I’ve had the intake unhooked all winter with a pan under it for the leak. \u00a0I don’t have a key to the latch on the original water intake and I couldn’t figure out how to fix the leak. \u00a0I also could not find an original replacement for the Thetford. \u00a0I got a new one from InlandRV<\/a> that is supposed to replace this model, but I had to make the hole in the skin bigger for one dimension and patch it a bit to make it work. \u00a0The original is much cooler looking, but the new one looks ok from the outside, doesn’t leak, and I have a key for it.<\/p>\n Other small projects have included sanding\/painting\/rescreening the 6th screen that was in the trailer when it went to Frank’s Trailer Works<\/a>, scraping off the sealant on the the windows and putting on fresh Vulkum, putting on new rubber seal on the last of the windows (1 more to go), and preparing the step light and flood light for LED replacements<\/a>. \u00a0The LED’s have arrived, will install those this weekend. \u00a0I also ordered new canisters for the tail lights from Vintage Trailer Supply<\/a> – my jerry-rigged tuna can lights <\/a> have started rusting and I’m worried about future leaks and now they are making replacements for these. \u00a0This and many other \u00a0projects have are a result of my mantra “I should do it while the walls are out.” \u00a0I really want to be working on the electric, maybe the tail lights work will lead to the interior wiring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I got asked today “So what’s going on with the trailer?” … I was a bit discouraged when I had to replace a cracked vent\/fan that I put in last fall and had not even used yet. \u00a0It was ok for a while, then I had a steady drip flowing into a bucket. \u00a0After several 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