Recent content by Spoonsize

Best thing I ever saw to quiet down a generator was a rigged up piece of HD flex pipe that went from the generator to just off the bottom of a 55 gallon barrel filled with water.

The reason: The RV oven is too small to cook a whole turkey. The process: One needs to start with a steel pail. Most today come with a non stick interior that has to be burnt off before used as a cooker. I pointed a 1 inch hardwood dowel and drove it thru some foil, about 2 ft square. Using...

Questions? 1 bag, 12.5 lbs match light charcoal. Cooking time:  1 hour,  13 minutes, 47 seconds.

Stay tuned for pictures, in the meantime, it took about 45 days for me to find a source for a clean, 5 gallon steel pail. NOT galvanized. A small bag of matchlight charcoal burnt inside the pail. turning the pail occasionally removed most of the interior non stick coating. There is currently...

This was a very tragic event. Perhaps most outlaws would think more than once before pulling a gun if they KNEW there was a chance their target carried a gun.

They don't have all over the country coverage yet, but they just might have it where you are. http://www.lostmystuff.net/index.php

Oceanlakes.....just won National Park of the year....AGAIN! We're here till April.

One thing to remember...if the water is condensed on the windows it is condensed on all the cold surfaces you don't see easily. We do everything we can to eliminate it, even slight amounts of "damp" can do horrible things. Exhaust fan on when cooking anything on the gas cook top. Water is a by...

WRONG......well, maybe, but who's to tell how long it has to burn? Better safe than poisoned!

Martinsville, VA We're looking for a friendly place north of town where we can fill the fresh water tank before entering the track campground. Any ideas? Steve

Remember, Grasshopper...it's not the destination, it's the journey that is important. Or so I've been told.

Only if the power were going through the breaker, not if the short occurred before the panel box. Steve

Possibly a dead short directly to ground that is intermittent? The cooked power plug smells of a short somewhere.

Did you try attaching the pump to an external water supply to see if it would indeed pump water? Steve

Dang...we just had a murder/suicide in NYS up around Lake George. The family, Dad and 2 kids from the Buffalo area, were staying in a tent for the weekend. Dad shot everybody. I'm not sure if a motivating factor ever came to light. Copycat?