BUMPS in the road of an RV’er

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Not our first rec. vehicle, but the first mobile one.  We loved it, but sure climbed a mountain slow, had to pull off to let the cars by that we were holding back. OUCH (No refrigerator in this!)

So for today:

Living in a coach presents special problems, not common to the home dweller.  Yesterday was one of those days. Just a day or so ago the lower hinge of our Refer broke. This coach has a standard Refrig by Norcold. This one is very shallow and operates on 12v, 120v or LP gas. The hinge is part of the door so I needed to get a door and did find a couple on the internet$50-100$.

As you can see this is no BIG refer. Very shallow,  But when most of it is on the floor it looks like a lot. LOL

I put a temp fix of Duck tape to hold the door in place with the lock and top hinge……………………………………

HOWEVER on the road to this park we heard a CRASH inside the coach. Sherry said, 'The Door fell OFF the refrigerator.'  I found a place to pull off.  You can imagine the contents scattered over the place BUT with no major spills!

WE put everything in the sinks to keep it from scattering more and Taped the front of the door to hold some cool inside. This meant I NEEDED TO FIX THIS, there would be no time to travel a few hours to get the doors.  So I put my thinking cap on. ... LOL ....  In the meantime we checked in and set up on a good site.

I carry enough tools to build a house or overhaul an engine, I had an old flat barn door hinge; using it, I measured and cut the metal to fit the spot, then cut the old broken hinge out with my angle cutter. I did some adjusting with a hammer at the picnic table forming it to fit the ¼” round ref stem of the hinge. Drilled some holes then using some self-drilling screws and secured it.  It was silver, so I painted it black, looks great and works just as well.

Thank the Lord it was a ‘forced’ easy fix in many ways and at no cost and about an hour's work.…

Nite Shipslog

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