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Having owned an RV and travel trailer and looked at some newer ones, I realize most RV products are very cheaply made. As I am considering an enclosed trailer to haul and store thing in with the potential to make it into a camper, I am wondering if they are all cheaply made or is there any...

My Born Free 22 has a two bank house battery that are needing replacement. I am tempted to replace them with the same large Walmart batteries for $300. Given the price of LifePO4 batteries are getting much lower, I am considering going LifePO. What are the stumbling blocks of adding LifePO4...

I have a Class C RV a Born Free 22. I have a dual chuck inflator but still have trouble getting air into the outside tire of the dually. With a 45 degree angle reverse chuck i can barely get air into one side and only by cranking on the stem can I get air into the other side. I am afraid of...

I need some chains for my Born Free 22 footer. If it snows much the weekend after Thanksgiving I might not be able to get home without them. I read about using chains in an off-road situation. What type of chains should I look for? Tires are LT225/75R16s.

I have a friend that owns a bike rental place. They have been given a grant to electrify their cargo bikes and to build a solar charging station for e-bike batteries. This includes the batteries from their rental fleet e-bikes which will be commercial type batteries. Because the grant is for...

I have a few projects coming up requiring relays one for an alarm system for my Class C and another for my motorcycle. I ordered something called Relay kits from Amazon that included the relay and a socket with the wires ready to go. The problem is they are huge. No way I am going to fit it...

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Any make their own soft shackles? I am a sailor, and have done some splicing including soft shackles and have all the fids and splicing accesories. I want to try to make some soft shackles to add to my recovery kit. I think the procedure would be the same but the loads and resulting rope...

My wife and I traveled to a big city a month ago and had a ton of fun on rental scooters. We are now looking at all sorts of secondary vehicles from scooters to motorcycles, but looking more at an ebike, but considering a small on/off road motorcycle, back in the day they were called Enduros...

I currenlty own two solar controllers. A Smartsolar 100/20 and a much larger one that lives in my RV. The Victron is in my custom battery pack to charge my Lifepo4 battery. I bought it overkill it only controls one portable panel and might be used to control up to 200watts of portable panels...

My RV has a pretty nice group of systems but the DC wiring and outlets are lacking. I am trying to add some outlets from the coach battery. The DC panel has two empty fuses with corresponding wires coming out the back ending with female bullet connectors. I am visiting a big city this week so...

I am putting in the finishing touches on my battery box. I am installing a coulomb meter and in order to try to mount the shunt to the battery. I have mounted the shunt to a bit of plywood. The bolts are not long enough to catch the 3 wires rings I need to install. I went to the hardware...

When I bought my Class C I was told one of the aribags needs topped off each day to stay at pressure. When I tried to fill the valves they both leaked like crazy from the back side of the valve. I unscrewed the valve and inspected them but could not easily reach them or free them from the...

I have downloaded a bunch of maps to cover the entire group of Western States. I have downloaded really a stupid amount of maps. When I browse through them they all seem to offer a slightly different view, with each offering something. Still, I would like to get rid of the excess maps. I...

My RV is a 22 foot Born Free with a rear door. My spare tire is stored in the largest storage compartment which I would really like back for storage. I have a front hitch on my truck and have used it to carry bikes on a 4 bike rack. I am considering adding a front hitch to my RV and putting...

Trying to simplify my tire inflation on my Born Free 22. I bought it in December and drove it home, now just getting to outfitting and prepping it. The biggest stumbling concern so far is the tires. The weird hub caps in the front and duallys in the back makes checking and filling air a pain...

My RV Born Free Built for two has a 40 gallon tank and gets 9mpg if I am lucky which equates to roughly a 300 mile range. I just topped it off and the display on the van showed 330 miles to empty. I would like to consider more fuel capacity. Without strapping jerry cans to the outside, what...

I had asked about this and was told it is not possible but have found through another thread GAIA works on Iphones 'Car Play' to any supporting car receiver. This feature has been around for a year. Android users have been requesting this for a year as well but until recently Google was not...

I grew up in a serious gun family and was a gun owner at 5 years old and shot all kinds of guns except high powered rifles. The guns I grew up with burned in a fire and I had not fired a gun for over 30 years. I had bought a 22 rifle and a 9mm pistol recently and want to take it with me in my...

My 2009 E 350 did not come with an owner's manual of any kind. So I have no idea where my fuses even are, well kind of. Normally my vehicles had them in the glove box on pax side but here the box is tiny and the area above looks like an airbag. I have a number of things I am looking to do...