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<\/a>quarter sawn as I really love the straight grain.\u00a0 I ripped it down to get rid of the sapwood and realized I didn’t have access to a joiner anymore.\u00a0 I started researching where I could use one.\u00a0\u00a0 I discovered MakerBook.io and was able to schedule a joiner use session less than 10 miles from my house the next morning.\u00a0\u00a0 It worked out great and I think cost me $50 for about an hour with a helper.<\/p>\nAfter the boards While in the middle of that, I had to order new casters for my table saw and miter saw cabinet.\u00a0 The 20+ year old phenolic wheels had just been disintegrating for years, and\u00a0 as I moved them out for this work, they totally broke.\u00a0 I ended up buying steel wheels this time, so hopefully they will be the last I need to buy and install.<\/p>\n I built the cabinet and installed it in the RV.\u00a0 So we now have a fireplace (that can produce heat too, what a novel concept) and a TV lift that works much better than my old one.\u00a0 And the best part is when the slides are in, like during travel, there is plenty of room to walk by another person.<\/p>\n So now that the TV lift was completed, I needed to get those fittings fixed.\u00a0\u00a0 I was googling a bit, trying to find out if I should be using something other than Teflon tape to wrap the threads, and that’s when I discovered that I was supposed to wrap them 5-7 times, not the 2 times I had always done during my life.\u00a0 Who knew?\u00a0 I’m not a plumber and have never worked with one.\u00a0\u00a0 This winter I will probably replace the existing L-bracket I took it all back apart, re-wrapped the fitting threads, and then tried to buy new wall brackets for them as the original brackets that came with them prevented a really tight fit for the water fittings.\u00a0 I ordered a couple and none of them were the correct size, so I bought a few Simpson ties, drilled and sawed openings for fittings to fit, and they are working to hold them up.<\/p>\n The wet bay is finally completely dry again!\u00a0 \u00a0Check out these pictures of what someone had done to add an accumulator to the system.\u00a0 I had never seen We got on the road Thursday, the 2nd of June, a little late in the afternoon.\u00a0\u00a0 That lateness added a couple hours to the drive to our stop for the night in Barstow, bumper-to-bumper traffic once we hit Riverside, and almost all the way up the Cajon Pass.<\/p>\n But we were on the road again!<\/strong><\/p>\n I also replaced the chassis batteries, and while doing that, added a heating pad below the lithium house batteries to use if needed in the future.<\/p>\n And we replaced the potable water hose on the reel as the old one kept springing leaks and had been cut back a few times to get rid of the holes.\u00a0 It had gotten pretty short over the years.\u00a0\u00a0 The new hose seemed great till we got to the cool weather in Colorado this summer and it’s almost too stiff to reel up and out.\u00a0 I will need to find another one.\u00a0 Maybe I will go with one of the collapsible fabric ones if I can find one safe for potable water.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After getting the bus back home, I had to get the TV Lift\/Bench\/Fireplace moved to the top of the to-do list as I had sold the couch on Craigslist that originally filled that spot. I finished up the drawing and bought the needed Cherry wood.\u00a0 \u00a0I went for quarter sawn as I really love the … <\/p>\n<\/a>were jointed, I was able to glue them up and use my hand planer to flatten them.\u00a0\u00a0 I was used to a wide planer and wide-belt sanders, so this was a real chore to get the glued-up <\/a>boards flat.<\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>During the winter I had completely redone the wet bay’s fresh water piping and also the black tank wash connection so it doesn’t route up into the living quarters. I moved the vacuum break to the hose end. \u00a0 While doing that, I decided to add a second water filter in the bay to give me a 5 Micron and .5 Micron filter.\u00a0 When I finished that part and tested it a while back, the fittings in the filter housings leaked like a sieve.\u00a0 I was so bummed as the engineering required to get two into that small area,\u00a0 no small feat.<\/p>\n<\/a>concoction I made with standard L-brackets I could find in stores with a single L-bracket with steel thick enough to hold them.\u00a0 I will also remake the top brackets with something more substantial than the Simpson ties I used.\u00a0 They worked for this summer but are not sturdy enough to last many years.<\/p>\n<\/a>stainless hose clamps rust and start flaking apart before.\u00a0 I <\/a>only thought stainless turned brownish in color, nothing like these.\u00a0\u00a0 They had used the wrong inside diameter flex tubing.\u00a0 I found the right stuff so was able to use the normal Pex cinch clamps and they should outlast me.<\/p>\n