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Hey Tom,
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Tom
5/16/2019 01:42:44 pm
Great to hear from you as always Tim.
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Luckily for me, I have fun when I'm doing projects like this. In fact, someone that I've known for over 20 years said to me yesterday that if I do decide to quit RVing and buy a house, it will be because I'm looking for new projects to work on. Not sure if I would say that about myself, but just puttering around the RV (and the house when I had it) working on projects is one of my greatest joys in life.
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Tom
5/16/2019 03:49:35 pm
The full-time lifestyle is great for someone who enjoys projects. An RV is a blank canvas to a DIYer. Everywhere you go you will be in a different environment and you will think of new things you can do to make the RV fit your lifestyle, or you will see what other people have done and think it's a great idea. Your only limitation is the weight of the tools you can carry to accomplish all of these projects. Speaking of which, a couple of Escapee parks I've been to have fully equipped woodworking shops that you can use for free, which can open up a whole new world of DIY projects.
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My Dad was asking me if it was going to be mentally difficult to punch all those holes in the roof. However, as you know, there are already dozens of holes already in the roof - they were just punched by other people. At least now, I'll get to have the fun of punching holes. If I'm diligent about cleaning the area with alcohol and putting a good dose of dicor down, then I'm not worried about it leaking.
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Tom
5/17/2019 09:36:50 am
As long as you put holes in the Arctic Fox the right way their no worse than the holes the factory put in there. The people that have problems are the ones that don't seal up the holes properly. But when you screw down the solar panel feet that are sitting in a puddle of Dicor, and you watch the Dicor crawl up the screw and cover the head of the screw as your screwing it down, you will know it's sealed up properly.
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Hey Tom - Here's an update on the RV work. I mounted four of the eight panels on Saturday. The person that had mentioned that he wanted to help has been sick the last week and has missed a lot of work time, so he wasn't able to come out and everyone else was busy. So, I did it by myself and it was a piece of cake - of course, I had to eat that piece of cake while going up and down the ladder about a hundred times :)
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Tom
5/20/2019 06:30:37 pm
Sorry it took me so long to respond Tim, I've been rather derelict in my blogging duties, but hopefully I'm back to normal now.
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Hi Tom - no problem on the delay; looks like you have your hands full with the new camper. I haven't been able to keep up with my blog in quite a while. In fact, I'm a little leary of posting a lot of details about my RV on my blog, to be honest.
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Tom
5/21/2019 03:49:59 pm
I was just wondering, when you say your leery of posting details about your RV, is it because of security?
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Yes, it's about security. It got me thinking do I really want to post all the details about my batteries, inverter, etc. and where I keep them, along with the security measures that I'm taking. The odds are that a thief probably wouldn't stumble across my website, but I was getting uneasy about posting details.
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Tom
5/21/2019 05:26:12 pm
I thought that might be it, that's always in the back of my mind also. But I think in general RV blogs usually don't have the hundreds of thousands of people tuning in like the popular videos do where they stand a better chance of having to deal with a nutcase every now and then. I also don't think RV blogs tend to attract the kind of trolls and troublemakers that other genres do. I could be wrong about that but so far it hasn't been an issue. But since your Arctic Fox is all alone I definitely wouldn't make its location public.
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I think I'll feel a little better when I'm actually living in it and moving around so it's harder to figure out where it's out. Of course, it's possible I'll feel worse about it - time will tell.
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Tom and
5/22/2019 08:54:40 am
Yes it will be better when you're living in it, but sooner or later you have to leave it to go buy groceries and the first few times you do that it will be a nailbiter, but it will get less and less stressful, and the times away from the Arctic Fox will get longer and longer until you finally reach a point where you can say to yourself, oh well there's nothing in here worth stealing, and its insured. Of course the more time and money you've spent doing projects like adding solar panels the less inclined you are to having to do it all over again.
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