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02-02-2012, 03:34 PM
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Location: Huntington WV
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Larry,
You may want to recall those accolades when you discover that most of the guys (and gal) on here are gearheads in their real lives. Mechanics, race car guys, engineers, and such. So, the coach is just a toy where we get to play with the stuff that we have to learn as part of our jobs.
And the second thing is that you don't get to see all the failed attempts, and solutions that didn't quite work out. And they are plentiful (at least in my case)
Seriously, this forum is a significant asset to any coach owner both in terms of technical support and moral support.
I hope to meet you at one of our unofficial rallys. I think you will find an immediate kindred spirit with most of the folks here. It's uncanny how well the group meshes.
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1995 Newell # 390 DD Series 60, Allison World Trans
Subaru Outback toad
CoMotion Tandem
Often wrong, but seldom in doubt
Rhonda's chronicle https://wersquared.wordpress.com/
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02-02-2012, 05:53 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Home base is Palm Beach, Florida
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Thanks Richard,
I look forward to catching up to many of you on the road as well as and with the Newell owners I have already met there does appear with most that the "kindred spirit" is there. I was always a white collar in my working life, but spent a few years racing MINI Coopers which seems to satisfy more of my personal instincts.
See you down the road.....
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2003 Double Slide, Detroit 60
Coach # 646
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03-17-2012, 11:15 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: mesa, az
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hi all,
larry, what richard said is so spot on. you dont see on the forum all the things i goofed up or did two or three times.
for example. i am replacing my headlights. i quickly measured them and assummed they were 90mm hellas. so i bought new ones, and when i took the old ones out i found out i had measured to quickly. they were actually 120mm hella's. so back the first ones went and i had to get the 120mm ones. and by the way the way newell installed them i had to drill all new mounting holes in the brackets for the new ones...
i drilled the holes and got them temporarily mounted till i get the new wiring finished and then spend the time to make up the aiming lines and aim the headlights.
later
tom
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03-17-2012, 11:40 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Houma, LA
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Larry,
Thanks for putting me in a class with Tom and Richard. The truth be known, I have a friend (Francis) who is the guru behind my repairs and renovations. Without him I couldn't do squat!! I have been owning Newells for 20 years so I have learned a little - just enough to get in trouble.
Tom is right; we usually get a repair job right after going to Lowe's or Home Depot at least 6 times.
But we're having fun!
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1999 Newell 45 w/2 slides
Coach #512
2005 Pilot
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03-18-2012, 12:59 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Riverside, California
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Tuga I wish it only took me 5, or 6 visits to Home Depot/Lowes to get it right.....when I was at Tom's I lost track of the number of times I visited AutoZone, Home Depot and Lowes, but I did eventually get it right. Tom I so identify with doing things too fast....what you described with the headlights sounds like something that might happen to me.... Glad to have you back in the USA for a while.
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03-18-2012, 03:09 PM
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Tom,
You are a never ending resource. I don't think I would have as much confidence doing my renovations without your posts.
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2003 Double Slide, Detroit 60
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03-18-2012, 03:10 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Home base is Palm Beach, Florida
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My "Guru" s are you guys and the 24 hour Newell Hotline...
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2003 Double Slide, Detroit 60
Coach # 646
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03-19-2012, 05:36 PM
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For you guys that get second looks from the wife as you are redoing a repair, let me give you some advice based on experience. During my time of running a race team my wife would catch me regularly refixing some thing I had just worked on. In racing all fixing of things is to make it work better. I quickly learned to reply to her questioning of why I was again working on some thing I had just fixed, that I was just trying to get it to work better. Newell is the same way. Yesterday she caught me working on one of my sewer valves that I had fixed. Her question was quickly answered with "I'm just trying to get it to work better". Works every time.........................or until she reads this post.
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