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  It rained in my basement

Posted by: Flick
08-11-2012, 04:23 AM
Forum: Plumbing and fixtures
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Turned on our water pump last night in our newly acquired d Newell and was rewarded with a shower in the basement plumbing area. See attached photo for the culprit (ok I don't know how to add an attachment. Anyway it is a fixture that a long canister filter screws into). The top of this filter assembly is cracked. It looks like a straightforward plumbing swap out. Can you guys tell me if that is so and can I get this at a Menards or do I need to get it online? What is this dude called anyway?

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  Windshield wipers

Posted by: rheavn
08-11-2012, 03:48 AM
Forum: Exterior
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For any one who collects part numbers like I do I replaced the entire wiper blade on my coach. It had Bosch wiper blades on it(not sure if original), but replaced with Anco as they are readily available. The wiper blade I used was a 31-24. They are available at Wal*Mart for under $5. In the future I can replace the refills with Anco part #11-24.

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  front windshield

Posted by: encantotom
08-10-2012, 09:05 PM
Forum: Exterior
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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

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  Brewmaster Coffee Maker

Posted by: bikestuff
08-09-2012, 09:52 AM
Forum: Interior Things
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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

   

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  Alamogordo, NM

Posted by: Nweck
08-09-2012, 07:50 AM
Forum: Members who have hookups and want visitors!
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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.

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  AquaHot & HydroHot Heating Specialist

Posted by: Fulltiming
08-09-2012, 05:47 AM
Forum: Coach Related Service, Repair or Maintainence
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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.

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  Basement air repairs

Posted by: folivier
08-09-2012, 12:53 AM
Forum: Air Conditioning
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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.

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  Basement A/C unit not starting

Posted by: Flick
08-08-2012, 09:07 PM
Forum: Air Conditioning
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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.

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  Our Summer Adventure

Posted by: Nweck
08-08-2012, 09:04 AM
Forum: Travel Logs
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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

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  How do you do that?

Posted by: Bill N.Y.
08-08-2012, 05:27 AM
Forum: Suggestions
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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.

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]

two HR together would look like this.
[HR][HR]
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:
We all Love Ice Cream

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.

[Image: keyboard.jpg]

[ 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.Big Grin

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