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Hi Nice and light so easy to post but only within the USA :( :wavey: from the UK

Snipped That is a nice idea :) Will you incorporate any sort of metal plate in contact with the warm pipes to spread the warmth over the whole floor? Have you decided what material to use as the final floor covering?

Hiya FYI the underfloor heating in our house is set to be about 37 deg C when it enters the floor system. The floor is about 100mm concrete screed with 15mm oak on top in most areas, tiles in the kitchen. The tiles let much more heat through and feel nice and warm, but for both areas that...

Hi I didn't mean you can't do an install that is trouble free, but I suppose I've become more cautious about fiddling with the manufacturer set up. I'm fairly sure Webasto does a diesel fired water heater with no tank giving you instant hot water at a slow rate, maybe not enough for a shower...

Hi Having had Seitz we wanted something better. I looked at Outbound windows on one vehicle and went for them straight away. Many builders in Germany say they are not as good as KCT, but the price of those is ridiculous even if you can choose different types of glass depending on where you're...

Hi You might want to broaden your query to other vehicles and campers. We had a D5WS plumbed into a Unimog cooling system, all done by the previous owners. A lot of the coolant circuit was normally un-accesable. If we opened the taps to share engine heat with the camper a load of air entered...

snipped Our U1300l had 14.5 R20 MPT 80 which I thought were heavy at the time. Next our U1700 had 395 85 R20 XZLs which were definitely heavy. But if you are into weightlifting, changing and remounting was OK. Next non-Mog truck has 16.00 R20 XZLs which are ridiculous. I bought two more with...

Hi There was a discussion on Benzworld a while ago that I think ended up suggesting that the only known portal failures were on 6 bolt hubs like Bill Caid's. None on 8 or 10 bolt, whose bigger hubs have more oil so perhaps no migration issue. Bigger hubs designed by Merc to run 395 85 R20s...

Hi We had an oven but it was rubbish. Next truck is bigger but won't have one, gas hob only. We will have a dutch oven, an "Omnia" stove top little oven and a good pressure cooker though. :)

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Hi My Separett is still waiting to be fitted :( But, I had been thinking that since there is negative pressure behind a vehicle when driving that the vent from the toilet, if vented through the back wall, might produce its own suction? If you mean directly between cab and camper that might...

Extract of camper layout, not drawn by me. Vehicle front is to the left of the drawing. Includes CAD layers of underlying frame in blue/grey so a few too many lines to be succinct, but you can see the three sided dinette layout covering most of the camper width, table shown offset of centre...

Hi folks I'm looking at making a U shaped dinette with a central table for our camper and am playing with how much I can squeeze things to maximise storage underneath. I own but don't have hands on the vehicle yet, so probably should wait but.... Does anyone have some guidelines on what...

Head or heart? Hiya Go for it! :) Justifying a Mog is probably only really something that a big company looking at a twenty year payback period can sensibly do. For any period of travel a Mog will be fine. Not as comfy as a new truck, not even as comfy as one of the more road based trucks...

Hiya We have a Volvo XC70 with a rear facing Klippan Triofix Recline for our 95cm tall just over two year old son. He never has faced forwards so doesn't know if it's better or not, I imagine trying to rear face a child who has front faced for some time would be tricky to say the least :) This...

Nice to see you posting again, even though I dread the volume you produce Biotect :) I have not quite finished Wigglesworth's book, about half way through, but I had previously read Ulrich Dolde's. So far I think Ulrich's is more helpful, and well worth a look although targeting the same people...

Snipped from Biotect's text " Wigglesworth's first "case study" is the conversion of a security truck into an overland camper, where the cargo box that was to hold the money was constructed so robustly, and placed directly on top of a chassis frame strengthened to be very rigid, such that no...

Hi LED lights are quoted as having a huge (average?) lifespan, but since I've changed over nearly all household bulbs to LED quite a few have popped. Maybe more often than before. Similarly, if you work out lithium costs based on quoted lifespan, they come out cheaply. But unlike lead acid...

Hi folks I've never looked in this section before, and was admiring some of the photos when it struck me that most car seats in the pics were front facing. Rear facing is something that is catching on more and more here in the UK following a lead from Scandinavia, which I think Volvo seems to...

Hiya If you browse the stock photos of what Atkinson Vos sell, and their comments as to what they regard as fine/bad/Omygoodness you'll get a good idea. You sometimes get new take off cabs from mogs when people make something like http://www.southcavetractors.com/unimog-strac/ but they...