Recent content by Dolphin Jockey

Hi Ron, The lady at ChairLift called me back and said they could cut their processing time by two weeks.  That's the good news.  The bad news is that their prices went up today by a substantial amount.  Can't win.  Not sure what we'll do now, especially since Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is...

Hi Bill, I'll Google it and see what happens.  Thanks for the info.

Hi Ron, Did that about two hours ago.  Still waiting on a reply.

Hi Ron, You know me!  Been there; done that.  Interestingly, using "seat lift for motorhomes" gets different results than using "chair lift for motorhomes."  Found a couple more sites I hadn't seen before but these seem to concentrate on lift mechanisms which are all mounted inside the coach.  I...

Hi Ron, No, I hadn't seen that site before.  Many of their lifts deal with moving a wheelchair from the ground to the inside but that's not what I'm looking for.  I need one which just lifts a person.  That web site did lead me to a lift which caught my eye.  It's at...

Hi Folks, I am facing the urgent need to equip my motorhome with a chair lift to get my handicapped wife from the ground level to inside the motorhome without her having to climb any steps.  So far my search has come up with only one possibility: the CoachLift system, seen at www.coachlift.com...

Attached is a photo of my granddaughters taken outside of their Las Vegas area home this afternoon.  They're coming to our home near San Diego next week for Christmas.  I told my daughter they better not bring that white stuff with them.  :)

Hi Folk, If you're ever in the Pensacola, FL area during the week (Tuesday & Thursday) check to see if the Blues are at their home base at NAS Pensacola.  If they are there's a good chance of catching an air show as they usually practice on Tuesday and Thursday mornings.  The base is open to...

Chet, Thanks for the info.  I looked at the Nikon Coolscan.  Told Jean she could buy me one for Christmas.  She just laughed and walked away.  So much for that idea.  >:( Also checked out the discussion of the HS unit.  Lots of chatter but nothing from anyone who has one.  I may give it a...

Hi Tom, Thanks for posting the link to the library article.  I wish I had included a photo of the fuse after the plastic was removed to expose the encased ends of the fuse connectors.  Grinding the plastic is the hardest part of the job -- but much easier if one has access to a hand-held...

Hi Folks, I have accumulated a bunch of 35mm slides over the past 50 years or so and I a considering a "rainy day" project of converting some of the better ones to a digital format for passing down to my children.  Does anyone know of a decent converter?  I found one at...

Here's a photo of a B1RD taken at the same air show.

Have you checked your vehicle owner's manual or the manufacturer for info related to towing the Outback?  My Saturn manual recommends I pull one fuse when towing but if I recall correctly it indicates it would take 2-3 days of towing without an engine start to deplete the battery. As an...

Hi Ron, FYI, on my 1988 Georgie Boy Cruise Air II (on a John Deere chassis) I had the Steer Safe stabilizers installed on each front wheel by a Camping World store.  That helped mitigate some of my goes-where-it-wants-to-go steering problems.  I then had the Davis TruTrack bar installed at...

Hi George, For many years I've been carrying a Sears tankless air compressor similar to the one at http://tinyurl.com/6s7o2k  It's rated to 125 psi but I don't recall the specs on the volume.  In any case it served me well for about 10 years with 19.5" tires inflated to 70-80 psi, and for the...