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where is matt when ya need him?

i had a chip in my drivers side windshield so got it replaced today. they said it was a common windshield. the cost of the window itself was $341.

i dont know how much the installation was. the window center rubber piece that seals the window in had shrunk so they are going to order a new one that goes all the way around.

not a fun time to be changing windshields. it was in direct sun and it was 112 degrees today.

tom

I hated the countertop coffee maker that I used to have. I always spilled water on the counter when trying to fill the blasted thing. Also, the coffee it made was marginal at best.

Here is my new Brewmaster plumbed-in coffee maker. The same one they are putting in new coaches. It has a water line running to the filtered water under the sink. No more spilled water.

Newell made the box and installed it. The only holes were to run power (inverted circuit) and water.

It only pulls power when it is actually brewing. The carafe keeps the coffee hot for quite a while.

Cheers,
bill

   

We have two hookups at our place just south of the golf course in Alamogordo, NM and enjoy visitors.

If you plan to stop just contact me and I will direct you in. We travel a lot so it is hit or miss if we will be there or not.

I notice on the Wanderlodge Forum that John Carrillo has posted that he will be at the FMCA Convention in Indianapolis, IN 8/25-8/30. He is a former employee of Aqua-Hot Heating Systems where he spent over 9 years as a Tech Advisor/Service Tech and he is certified and trained in both AquaHot and HydraHot systems with 13 years of experience. If you are going to the convention and need your system worked on you can contact him:
[email protected] or by calling (970)518-3085 or by snail mail at John Carrillo Hydronic Heating Specialist, 9143 Harlequin Cir., Frederick, CO 80504.

Does Dave Holmes in Indiana not have the compressor squirrel cage fan motors anymore? That would be a big problem.
A couple years ago a local electric motor rebuilder looked at one and said he could maybe rebuild it but it wouldn't be cheap, he said the problem was with the sealed bearings. You might have some luck finding a local shop to rebuild.
I think at some point we all will have to convert to roof airs, not looking forward to that.
My local a/c guy repaired mine once and said he might be able to find a compressor and condenser that would work. You just need to find someone willing to work on these units. Once he saw that the compressor unit could be pulled out he was willing to look at it.

Ok first thread ever as a Newell owner. Ok soon to be as I am picking up an 84 on Friday. The seller called me today and said that two of the three basement units fired up but that one would not and that this had never happened before. The rig has largely been idle with only two trips in four years. He said he occasionally starts it and runs the units and this is the first time this has happened. I know nothing about these as I am brand new to this but the owner does not know a great deal either. Any ideas or best case worst case along with cost potentially from experience. The owner said he wanted to try and make this right by potentially correcting the price. So i Told him I would post here and see if any of the Newell family could make suggestions to possible causes and the potential cost so he and I had someone's experience to guide us. Thanks for your help.

Hi, This is my first post and want to thank Michael for telling me about this site.

Currently, we are on a long summer journey to the west coast to see old Newell friends and take a cruise to Alaska for our 50th wedding anniversary out of Seattle.

We left Albuquerque, NM on June 26 and have visited old friends and relatives along the way and are now in Sacramento, CA. Some of the Newell owners have now settled down and gotten out of RVing but some are still enjoying our fun lifestyle.

Our visits have been to Frank and Kay Niesner in Royal City, Washington, Marlen and Audrey Knutson in Bow. Washington, Tom and Mary Cowgill in Albany, OR, and now with Dan and Barbara Calvey here in Sacramento.

The trail leads back to Albuquerque from here as I have a Doctor's appointment and we need to get back home to Alamogordo, NM to get ready to head out to Indio for the winter.

Nweck

Perhaps you can have an area to teach members how to use a BB Forum. Maybe the first question is... What is a BB Forum anyway? Well, you're looking at it.

BB Stands for Bulletin Board. BB Forums where introduced to allow members of a community to do basic HTML without allowing the members to run scripts that could attack a forum software or cause the layout to become unstable. It's intended purpose was to give more control to the users while keeping people with malicious intent away.

Here is a wiki on BB Forum Software.

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Our first lesson will be something called a Horizon Rule. A horizontal rule is nothing more than a line that runs across the page. What you see above this paragraph is 2 Horizontal Rules or HR's.

Here is the code to make a Single Horizontal Rule.
[HR]

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two HR together would look like this.
[HR][HR]

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Likewise, if you need more horizontal rules, just use more HR codes.

Another example shows you how to use 2 "Horizontal Rules" to bracket something.
[hr]We all Love Ice Cream[hr]
will give you this:

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We all Love Ice Cream

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Notice in all of the examples the "Horizontal Rule" code is inline with the text. or that both "Horizontal Rules" are together. This is because the "Horizontal Rule" will drop down without prompting and it will keep it tight to the text you are bracketing.

You could also, but not recommended, just use the "Shift and Minus mark" (Underscore) between the "zero and ) key" and "Plus and Equal Key" to make a long underscore line by holding that key down... but, this just leaves the page looking weird for people who have a larger or smaller screen resolution than you.

Brackets are used for most codes that I'll be teaching here. A bracket is next to the P on the keyboard. You Do Not use "SHIFT" to insert a bracket.

I have made the brackets dark red in the keyboard below.



[ Left Bracket

] Right Bracket

If you have question on how to use the forum or would like me to teach you how to do certain things, just ask.

"The more you learn, the more know."
If Yogi didn't say this, he must have thought it.

I am looking for a voltage regulator for my 12.5 KW gene.
Last time I bought one 4 yrs ago they were $130. and now they are $460.
Just wondering if anyone knows of a place that has them cheaper. Google search shows only one other source at the same price. Talk about inflation. I have aprox 700 hrs on the current regulator.
Problem: measuring 75 volts each leg at generator.
I have been through 3 regulators in the past 6 years wonder why!

Brad

The hitch on my 2002 is much much lower than the one on my 1990. Russ when he was here reminded me I might need to get a Hi-Lo adapter so when we looked at it, not only did i realize i needed one but we saw that my hitch was a 2 1/2" receiver. a very heavy duty hitch that either pulled a stacker or hospitality trailer.

so i picked up a roadmaster 048-10 hi low hitch adapter. it is ONLY for adjusting the height of the tow bar for pulling a toad. not used for a trailer. you are supposed to be within 3 " or so of level. each tow bar has a different spec so you need to check your own.

when i measured the height of my hitch and my tow bar i needed 10" rise.

i got the 10,000lb version because i overdo everything.

the day we were leaving on our month long trip i put it on along with a 2 1/2" to 2" reducer i released the obvious....duh....i have to extend the tow cables and the electrical cable. so, 2 different trips to the hitch store (which thankfully is only a mile and half from my house) i got the right extension cables of sufficient strength. the cable i had to replace with one that was longer. all of this when it was 115 degrees out sitting on the asphalt in front of my house with the car ready to be hooked up. i finished it and we hopped in and left.

the hi-lo hitch not only raised it by 10" but EXTENDED it by about a foot. so everything needed quite a bit of extra length.

the amsuing part was this....i have the M&G braking system on our honda CRV. the 2002 had an air brake coupling so i assumed it was hooked up the same way as my 90. so after getting the hitch all fixed up, i hooked everything up including the air hose for the braking system. all 5 of us were in the newell, i took the parking brake off and started to go forward. but there was some resistance and our daughter ran up waving her hands frantically. she said i was dragging the car. the air hookup kept air on all the time so the brakes were locked up. so i just took the hose off and never worried about it. i will fix it later, but i never noticed any braking issues pulling the car without it.

tom