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  Blew tag bag

Posted by: Richard
09-04-2014, 07:04 PM
Forum: Suspension/Tires/Wheels
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The gremlins have me. Started the first leg of our three month journey this morning. First stop is my mothers. Five minutes after leveling in her drive, most down tail up, we have a gunshot and hissing air. Rear tag bag is blown. Other tags had been replaced by Tuga I think because they look new. Any how found Steve's post and will use those numbers to try to find bag tomorrow

Remember I just posted about the brake bracket repair? I was under there for hours with the coach raised all the way up on the air bags just like it was when this one blew. Yes. I did have the coach cribbed when I was working, but it just proves the point. The coach sank instantly when the bag blew because the drive is tied to the tag. A great reminder to crib ALWAYS. It would have definitely crushed me if this had happened and the coach was not supported.

I have only phone internet at Moms.

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  AquaHot electric heating

Posted by: Chester Stone
09-04-2014, 07:24 AM
Forum: Heating Systems
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My AquaHot when on electric heating, only heats at the rate of about 10 degrees per hour. This seems like slow heating to me and is this normal? I do not seem to have the switch that allows for a higher rate of heating.

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  I49 south speeding

Posted by: Yachts
09-03-2014, 07:01 PM
Forum: Newell Sightings
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Saw what I thought was coach 653 exceeding the posted speed limit heading south on I-49 south of Fayetteville . The coach was traveling at such a high rate of speed all I saw were a red and black on a field of white flash past me. The drivers hair appeared to be flowing in the wind and a scarf around his neck like the old fighter pilots in WW1. As I looked closer I saw 2 magnificent boxers with goggles on their eyes looking out the front wind screen. My wife asked what was that. She said was it a bird? A plane? No I said honey that was Super Bill.. Off to save the planet with his trusty pups..

I can now say I've seen the legend in the wild, coach 653Smile

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  Dog Houses

Posted by: rheavn
09-03-2014, 04:09 PM
Forum: Other Stuff
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Some of you pet travelers might find these interesting..........................

https://www.google.com/search?q=trailer+...B404%3B331

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  What is the blue light from our screens really doing to our eyes?

Posted by: MrE
09-03-2014, 03:10 PM
Forum: Interior Things
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Interesting article by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore SEP. 1, 2014 - 6:00 AM PDT
SUMMARY:
We’ve known for a while that excessive screen time is not good for your sleep schedule, but the latest findings are overwhelmingly gloomy – and extend well beyond insomnia.
An eye doctor says he’s recently seen a few 35-year-old patients whose lenses, which are typically clear all the way up until around age 40, are so cloudy they resemble 75-year-olds’. A sleep doctor says kids as young as toddlers are suffering from chronic insomnia, which in turn affects their behavior and performance at school and daycare. A scientist finds that women who work night shifts are twice as likely to develop breast cancer than those who sleep at night.

What do all these anecdotes have in common? Nighttime exposure to the blue light emanating from our screens.

You’ve probably heard the hype these past few years: being in the presence of light at night disrupts the body’s natural circadian rhythms by suppressing the production of melatonin, a sleep hormone. But melatonin does far more than help us get sleepy – it’s also an antioxidant that appears to play a pivotal role in slowing the progression of cancer and other diseases.
“I’ve been spending a lot of the past 20 years worrying about it,” said Dr. Richard Hansler, who clocked in 42 years at GE Lighting developing “all kinds of bright, beautiful lights” before his move to John Carroll University in Ohio, where he studied the effects of light at night on our health. It was the mid 1990s, and at that point, he said, his concern wasn’t widely shared.

“I discovered that using light at night is bad for people’s health and interferes with their sleep. I felt a moral obligation to do something about it, particularly when I learned it’s the blue component in ordinary white light that is suppressing the production of melatonin. And melatonin not only helps you sleep but is a marvelous material that has a very big influence on health in general; specifically, if you don’t have enough you may develop diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and even a couple kinds of cancer.”

When the stars go blue

The impact of blue light on melatonin production was only recently confirmed, in 2001, when scientists found that light in the blue spectrum — the 415 to 445 nanometer range — disrupts melatonin. Because it is so bright, blue light is used widely in pretty much all LED devices, including phones, tablets, laptops, and TVs. And because it is so hot, it appears to be wreaking all sorts of havoc on our eyes, on melatonin, and consequently, on our health.

The latest research, in fact, overwhelmingly suggests that delayed production of melatonin due to blue light exposure at night is causing far more problems than insomnia, from diabetes and certain types of cancer to lupus and migraine headaches. Optometrists are even seeing high levels of retinal stress in young people that could lead to the early onset of macular degeneration, which in extreme cases can cause near blindness.

“Here’s what doesn’t need research: 415 to 445nm is super hot light, and if it’s really focused and brought up close – when you’re talking about a tablet six inches from a kid’s face – it’s got to be significant,” said Dr. William Harrison, a renowned optometrist in Laguna Beach, Calif., who has been following the research on blue light closely for the past year. He said the research is compelling, but that the medical profession is slow to catch on to the concerns.

Because artificial light at night has only been around for the past century or so, and the hotter, brighter blue light has only been so heavily concentrated in our light sources for the past 10 or 20 years (the previously popular incandescent bulbs don’t emit the same amount of blue light, which is stronger in CFLs but stronger still in LEDs), its long-term effect on our eyes and bodies remains unknown.

Screening for problems

For those who like to read the scientific literature directly, here’s a quick tour of some of the latest findings, and a search on blue light and melatonin via the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s PubMed search tool can yield larger results:

Room light not only suppresses melatonin production, but it could also impact sleep, thermoregulation, blood pressure and glucose homeostasis
Blue light is considered a “carcinogenic pollution” that in mice correlates with higher cancer rates
A lack of melatonin is linked to higher rates of breast, ovarian, and prostate cancers, while blocking those blue rays with amber glasses is linked to lower cancer rates
Exposure to blue light in people appears to have an impact on mood
Lower melatonin in mice is linked with higher rates of depression
Too much light exposure can cause retinal toxicity
Blue light exposure may be playing a role in the higher incidence of cataracts and macular degeneration seen today
The more Hansler conducted his own investigation into the impact of blue light on various aspects of human and animal health, the more he felt he had an obligation to do something. In 2005, he and a group of physicists at John Carroll University developed light bulbs that don’t emit blue light and goggles that block out that part of the spectrum, and he has since written a handful of books on the subject. (If you’re doing the math, yes, Hansler is now 90 years old and no, he hasn’t yet retired.)

A few developers of goggles and glasses that block blue light exist now, including Lighting Science out of Florida. In fact Dr. Michael Breus, the “Sleep Doctor” who regularly appears on shows like Dr. Oz, is so convinced by the science that he’s bought Lighting Science’s Good Night Bulb (with low levels of blue light) for his bedroom and the Awake & Alert Bulb (with more blue light to energize in the mornings) for his bathroom. Astronauts even use the bulbs to help regulate their sleep cycles on the International Space Station, which orbits the Earth every 90 minutes.

It remains unclear whether our screens themselves will soon emit less blue light — Hansler is pessimistic because he says that changing the amoung of blue light will be like admitting that the screens are causing health problems, and lawsuits could ensue. For now, there are screens for tablets that purport to filter out the blue light, and as well as apps that let you put your device in a bedtime mode where the light contains less blues and more ambers. Hansler is suspicious of whether those screens and apps work, and wants more research done.

In the meantime, does this mean we all need to refrain from any TV or lighting at all in a bedroom in the hour or two prior to bedtime, in a room so dark you can’t see your hand in front of you? “I think that’s crap,” Dr. Breus says. “If I told everybody to put themselves into a pitch dark room at 8 at night at 68 degrees with no noise, would people sleep better? Maybe. But you have to have a fairly decent amount of light and in close proximity.”

http://gigaom.com/2014/09/01/what-is-the...-our-eyes/

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It's even possible that you're staying up too late because of your computer. You could use f.lux because it makes you sleep better, or you could just use it just because it makes your computer look better.

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f.lux makes your computer screen look like the room you're in, all the time. When the sun sets, it makes your computer look like your indoor lights. In the morning, it makes things look like sunlight again.

Tell f.lux what kind of lighting you have, and where you live. Then forget about it. f.lux will do the rest, automatically.

Another thought, when you're thinking about replacing lights with LEDs you might want to opt for the 'warm white' or 'bright white' instead of the 'blue white'.

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  Newell koolaid

Posted by: Junior Guru
09-02-2014, 08:26 PM
Forum: Please introduce yourself
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Hi folks,

I am very happy to join the nutty Newell clan!

For a reason I can't put my finger on I decided to jump right into RVing and bought a 2003 newell a few months ago. I procrastinated for over a year until my wife reminded me that if I didn't make a move soon another summer would go by and our kids (4 and 7) would be another year closer to realizing how not cool we are.

So, I zeroed in on a newell seeing how the factory is 3 hours from my house. I bought coach 665 in Indio, CA in April and drove it to Kansas City. It's been really fun...and expensive! I must be the newell service customer of the summer with all I've spent in Miami. Let's just say I'm turning some of my own wrenches now!

My personal RV dream.... If I were to ever win the lottery, I would buy a vintage newell and spend a $mil redoing it and turning it into the baddest RV on the planet!

I ran into marc newman and bill johnson this weekend at Waters Edge, Grand Lake OK and they invited me here to newell gurus. I was with a bunch of family and didn't get much of a chance to visit. But I've actually been snooping around newell gurus for a while.

When my son said our camping trip to CO was "way better than Disneyland", I felt like everything I've spent and done has been worth it.

I can't wait to meet some of you folks!

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  1895

Posted by: Dmatz
09-02-2014, 03:53 PM
Forum: Newell Sightings
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[attachment=2580]This is sone pictures of the 85 I saw. Stan Phillips we were at a FMCA rally in Wells Maine with 65 coaches. Only 2 Newell's 30 years apart. He has had it for 15 years.

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  3 Newell's in the wild

Posted by: Yachts
09-01-2014, 07:35 PM
Forum: Newell Sightings
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There were 3 of us at waters edge rv resort, the one that lives there full time, mine and a 2003 triple slide with the copper paint job and the pink ribbons . The owner bought it in April. He is from Kansas City.. Will be joining gurus shortly.

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  Broken Air Chamber Bracket

Posted by: Richard
09-01-2014, 05:40 PM
Forum: Suspension/Tires/Wheels
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In prep for our upcoming trip, I was crawling around under the coach with the grease gun. Much to my surprise, I saw this when I went under the rear.
   
This officially qualifies as Houston, We have a problem. You may be able to see the brake chamber is about 180 degrees from where it is supposed to be. Further examination shows the brake chamber is mounted to a bracket, and the bracket is bolted to the backside of the drive wheels with 4 5/8 bolts.

The mounting ears on the bracket failed. When I look at the ears, it looks like the failure occured over time. There is very little fresh fracture area, and most of the broken area appears that it is hammered smooth. That would have happened each time the brakes were applied and the bracket tried to rotate.
   
   

Now comes the fun part. Inside the bracket tube is the rod that turns to activate the cam for the brakes. The design feature that kept the bracket captured was that the inboard end of the rod has the slack adjuster attached via circlip.

But...........there was not enough room to slide the bracket off the rod. And to take the rod out meant taking the wheels off the coach. So I put the ears back in place with the bolts, clamped the bracket in place with c clamps and tacked the ears back on. I then could move it out of the confined space enough to get the welder to it. Sorry I don't have any pictures of the fix, but I was pretty covered in grease and dirt, and getting out the phone for a photo op was not on my priority list.

I'll go ahead and try to find a replacement to have as a spare. That way it'll guarantee this one doesn't break.

Needless to say I didn't have brakes or e brakes on that wheel. I don't know how long it's been that way, as I haven't been under the rear for several months. I guess the moral of the story is it wouldn't hurt to shine a light around occasionally to see what you can seen under there.

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  Prayers Needed for Ron Skeen

Posted by: encantotom
08-31-2014, 04:35 PM
Forum: Help, I need help ASAP
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My buddy and dear friend (as he is to all that know him) has had a motorcycle accident and has broken his neck. He is going in for surgery Monday morning. I just got off the phone with him and he has asked for prayers from of all of us. Ron is a man of strong faith and he as I do, believe in the power of prayer.

I have talked to him on the phone and he says that he is not paralyzed and has localized numbness but is in a lot of pain.

He does not need help with the coach and i know that when he does we can figure out how to help him. He and Jean are in Sante Fe, NM.

As i find out more i will let you guys know. and if anyone else hears anything, please post it here.

tom

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