Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

Buckeye, all my boat covers were Sunbrella. My storage cover for motorhome was made with it. Lasted a long time. But it will cost a lot more than vinyl. My slides and awnings had covers over them when rolled up. Dometic called them weathersheild.

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Is that the acrylic fabric? It has the weather shield.

 

[sodamo]

71°F and .40 inches rain.

Big day ahead. The big switch over to new power system. Will be shutting done and switching to generator power shortly, then uninstalling old system. Installer expected between 9 & 10 this morning with new system.
Exciting!!!!

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[jbrumberg]

David- Good luck. I hope for a successful switch-over and more pictures.

 

[PJSprog]

42°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 55° today. 60s for tomorrow and Thursday.

 

[ronjhall]

Is that the acrylic fabric? It has the weather shield.

You can get them with acrylic or vinyl.

 

[sodamo]

A few days ago I started to make something to hold the top of the water tank cover together and yesterday was dry enough to let me get out and finish it off. The thing is starting to get heavy so it needed to incorporate a lifting eye to one day suspend it from the FEL to lower it into place. After sketching different ideas I settled on a square plate to which are attached 8 short steel bars, each angled so they could be welded into the V of the angle iron. A piece of wood made a good trial and error (with lots of errors!) template.

It was easiest to position the first bars across the diagonal and then cut out where the hole is once they had been tacked into place.

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In retrospect I should have made this top piece before anything else and used it to align all the ribs instead of balancing them on an empty paint can, which meant nothing was firm until all 8 pieces were tacked into place. I hadn't anticipated quite how difficult it would be for a novice fabricator like me to get all 8 sides equal, or how tight it would be to poke in a welding rod to some of the welds on the underside.

We live and learn - I have just about learnt enough to make this my last octagonal structure :laughing:

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That’s pretty awesome, Eric. Great job.

 

[daugen]

fingers crossed David.
Hope to hear from you shortly.

blew some pretty wet leaves off the driveway, then changed oil in blower while it was warm. Put a maintenance label on it
and it will be good for another two years. Full synthetic oil does not wear out in 20 hours, thankfully.

Then took a packaged pork roast labeled a Carnitas and put it in my slow cooker, four hours on high, along with mushrooms,
onions, potatoes, peppers, poblanos, just a few, and tomatoes with garlic.
Looking forward to that. Probably would have been an hour in an instapot but the timing worked here.
I've always liked mystery meat stews, though would prefer no mystery to me...

time to watch a movie, maybe take a nap. Unfortunately that storage closet is nagging away at me. And since it's ten feet behind me can't say
it's an inconvenience to go clean it out.

 

[toppop52]

Do you ever get used to losing friends and family members, Randy?

I was going through old voicemails this morning (Google Voice had them going back to 2010!) and found a few from dear, departed, friends. I listened to one, couldn't take any more, and deleted everything over a year old...

I never do.

 

[jbrumberg]

"...I've always liked mystery meat stews, though would prefer no mystery to me..."- Drew

I do not remember ever disliking a mystery meat stew. There have been times that I did not want to know what exactly I was enjoyably eating.

Your ingredient list reads like good eats to me.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

You can get them with acrylic or vinyl.

The acrylic with a shield is 3x the cost. Will probably go vinyl. I’d like to sell this camper before too many more things go on it.

Just remembered the outside lights didn’t work on our last trip. Hope it’s not mice eating wiring.