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RE: Food sticking on grill
Pam makes a High Heat cooking spray that works ok.
The cooking BBQ shows on TV use a papertowel dipped into vegetable oil and using tongs wipe down the grill, this acutually covers it better than the spray.
BTW:
This BBQ TV show is THE BEST I've found, a must for obsessed BBQ'ing RV'ers.:B
http://www.bbqu.net/
I couldn't agree more. Raichlen's rules: 1) Keep it hot, 2) Keep it clean, and 3) keep it oiled. Steve has revolutionized my BBQing at home and on the road. I'm tempted to bail all my camping stoves and get that portable Webber.
David
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DCHaviland
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05/22/08 03:24pm |
Camp Cooks and Connoisseurs
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RE: New store policy at Sam’s and Wall-Mart about tires.
I found this a very interesting discussion. It is odd that some places would only put on like sized tires.
I had valve stem issues one weekend where all my stems degraded and blew out. In short we became first name friends with a guy at National Tire & Battery. During a lull, he kindly looked up every tire suitable for RVs and some involved a slight change in size, all fitting my 14" rims.
I didn't need any new tires, just stems but my take was that NTB would put on whatever I wanted onto those rims.
David
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DCHaviland
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05/22/08 02:59pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: Black Tank Misreading!
No matter what I do I can not get the reading on the Black Tank to read "Empty". Here's what I have done to date:
1. Multiple "santi-flushes"...fill to full then release the handle until clear water appears.
2. Toilet hose (the one the squirts in all directions) down the toilet until clear water appears.
3. Cascade water softener in 1/2 tank full, travel to next campsite and empty....run until clear.
4. Ice Cubes down toilet then flush until clear.
*** Edited for brevity ***
Any suggestions?
I had the suggestion of the ice cubes from my RV dealer (under his breath of course as technically they'd rather charge me to clean the tank). We use a number of sources to tell us about the black water tank not just the gauges. Mainly time and keeping a rough idea of how many times it has been used. Like many we always go out with an empty black tank and we do this every time we park it where our storage facility has a sewer dump if we don't dump before leaving the park. So even though it may show three pegs, we know it's empty.
But back to the point, we've used the ice technique with some success, but it has worked when with a hose, we have *filled* the black water tank 2/3rds full of water then chunk in 20# of ice, then drive. The first thing we have to do though is drain the black tank before we "drop anchor" and park. This has worked some of the time.
But I can also sympathize and tell you that right now I'm reading 3/4ths full but I know it's empty too!
David
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DCHaviland
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05/20/08 04:36pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: King Pin Lubrication?
Ok, no laughing out there but I bought my first fiver last year so this is my first time "de-winterizing" and hitting the road. Is there anything I need to do to lube the king pin? I see other postings about a "hitch plate" which I don't have....at least I don't think. It would seem that I could lube the pin so it rides smoother in the hitch.
Hi... I use the nylon slip disk and was told by two dealers that I didn't need any sort of lube other than maybe a shot of WD-40 around where the latch binds the king-pin. As I remove my 5th wheel hitch with some regularity (yes, I actually need my truck for something other than hauling the 5th wheel) the last thing I wanted to do was get all "greased up" taking the hitch off.
I know two guys that did use grease and now that they know about the nylon disks, they wish they could go back. One is trying!
David
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DCHaviland
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05/20/08 04:12pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: What brands of tires to look at for new fiver?
Hi...
A newbie to this forum. I'm not complaining about tires as I've ruined one with my first trailer but I write that off a ignorance on my part as, even though it was explained to me, I didn't appreciate the sermon I got from my dealer about loads, tire pressures and the like until a real world education took place. Now I watch my tires like a hawk.
Now with that said, we have a 31' 5th wheel, dual axle, from Forrest River and am otherwise very happy with it. We pull it with a F-250 diesel and have mainly explored Eastern Texas. We've had it for about 18 months.
What I found absolutely crazy was DW and I noted it was tad down on one side in the storage yard where we keep it (covered, on level ground, w/ power). We show up Saturday to bring the tires up with the portable compressor I have and low and behold, one tire is dead flat on the left side and the other is but a few pounds behind. No biggie I thought, I'll just fill them up. Wrong. The minute I put any stress on the valves they crack and start leaking. Sensing an issue, I move to the next tire, start to fill and sure enough, it comes loose. I already have a dead tire, now a second one the same side following suit. I have a 3 ton floor jack, fairly dedicated for the trailer but no cheater bar for T-bar to loosen the zillion-foot-pounds the lug nuts were put on with. I applied some WD40 to the lug nuts and came back the next morning with a long bar and 1/2" drive and cheater bar to help.
To make a long story short, this was good for us in a way as this trailer is new to us and we had yet to have a "road issue" where we had to pull a tire off, let alone two. So we now have procedures to deal with tires. I did take note that the axle's are not jack points! I used the center lift point between the Axles.
All in all we ended up doing all 5 tires. The guy at NTB told us, with concern, that the stems originally put on (by Forrest River) were standard low pressure stems, not rated much above 40 PSI. For a mere $5 a tire we had high pressure stems put on all 5 tires. None of the tires were damaged (from being flat) and didn't need replacing (Towmax tires) but for killing an afternoon and $25 later, we have what could have been a potential hazardous issue fixed and have been through tire changing so there is an upside to all of this - practice a tire change!
IF they guy from NTB is right, why would FR let a trailer out of the yard with these kind of stems?
What I didn't say was that the right side had the same issues - the minute I went to fill, the stem cracked and started leaking. Without much effort on my part, I could have easily ended up with trailer w/ 4 flat tires.
Sorry to be so long winded but I'm just glad this occurred in the storage yard and not on the road.
David
Pearland, TX
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DCHaviland
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05/06/08 02:04pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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