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  1. Steve and Karen

    Kelty Sideroads Awning

    Mine is 4” dia and despite the appearances i have never come close to banging my shins on it. For it to work effectively as a protective bumper it needs to be somewhat proud of the rear-most part of the trailer. I think i have the height and extension dialled in fairly well. No “test...
  2. Steve and Karen

    Kelty Sideroads Awning

    I’m sure you could. If you went up to a 5” tube, you’d have another 5 gallons. And a bumper. I love double-duty things. Mine certainly wasn’t meant to be watertight and is only for long skinny stuff like tarp poles and fishing rods. Figuring out how to fill it and connecting to the CI tank...
  3. Steve and Karen

    Kelty Sideroads Awning

    Sweeney: Are you referring to this: Custom Stainless Bumper (with Storage). ?
  4. Steve and Karen

    Mr Heater Buddy Connection To Aux Propane Port?

    That likely won't change anything, as you say. Whenever I've had a "flame out" of the pilot, it was only lit for a few seconds and pretty feeble at that. Just some latent gas in the lines. There was certainly nothing pushing it through.
  5. Steve and Karen

    Mr Heater Buddy Connection To Aux Propane Port?

    Mine is 20. Actually a few lbs higher at the port than at the tank. This would indeed seem counterintuitive, but a check valve with a wide swing in pressure points, as you suggest, (or a malfunctioning valve or no valve at all) would be one explanation as to why we have such a wide variation...
  6. Steve and Karen

    Mr Heater Buddy Connection To Aux Propane Port?

    Seth: New Big Buddy fall 2023 Mr Heater hose and regulator: ... with the tank connection removed and replaced with a male QC that mates with the CI side port, which registers 20 PSI out. This device also works "as purchased", meaning that I could go directly off a tank into the heater QC...
  7. Steve and Karen

    Mr Heater Buddy Connection To Aux Propane Port?

    MH= Mr Heater WC= Inches Water Closet (which I assume is a somewhat antiquated way of measuring low pressure gases and liquids. I do know that it is more sensitive and smaller than psi.) OD= Outside Diameter ID= Inside Diameter QC= Quick Connect Not sure I have used QD or MC in my posts. But...
  8. Steve and Karen

    Kelty Sideroads Awning

    Those should stay put. Odds would be (for me) that a strong wind would lift the canopy and my foam discs (that I would have sworn couldn’t possibly go anywhere) would simply fall out. And I’d be doing a patch job on the canopy. If it was even patchable.
  9. Steve and Karen

    Mr Heater Buddy Connection To Aux Propane Port?

    Gremlins indeed. Cary: Here's the answer (or is it another question?) : The MH in-line regulator that came with their hose appears to be an 11" WC. Meaning... I get the same "zero" reading that I do when I hook up to the CI stove end connection, after it has gone through the 11" reg. I...
  10. Steve and Karen

    Kelty Sideroads Awning

    My two cents on the Backroads... with pictures: I waited for frozen ground so I wouldn't make a mess of things. I was able to put it up myself NP in windless conditions. Any sort of breeze and I would definitely want some help. There's lots of head room. I'm 6'4" and wasn't confined to a...
  11. Steve and Karen

    Bokashi Composting On The Road?

    Ok... this one's sitting a little bit out in left field, but... I have been kinda bothered by how much waste we generate on the road. (This is underscored by how little we actually generate while at home, being dyed-in-the wool recyclers, grow-yer-own gardeners, and traditional composters.) I...
  12. Steve and Karen

    Latest Gear Finds And Hacks Pt Ii

    I found a few more worthwhile mentions amongst the pile: Stove Top "Espresso" on a iso-butane stove: https://www.amazon.com/Bialetti-Express-coffee-maker-Aluminium/dp/B07XK6NLSQ We've had a lot of pack-up mornings where we didn't want to make a real breakfast, and even the prospect of...
  13. Steve and Karen

    Mr Heater Buddy Connection To Aux Propane Port?

    Cary: good questions that may help explain what is going/not going on. I checked the manufacturing number of the in-line regulator (at least the one that was installed on my Mr Heater hose) and its specs as a separately available part, on at least one site, were reputed to be 11”. This made...
  14. Steve and Karen

    Mr Heater Buddy Connection To Aux Propane Port?

    Perfect opportunity for the "Buddy" to shine. We've done the ferry across to Milwaukee (without the trailer), braved Chicago with the trailer, and dragged the trailer through snow across the UP. We wouldn't be able use any of those conditions as an excuse for not showing up.
  15. Steve and Karen

    Mr Heater Buddy Connection To Aux Propane Port?

    ... will be my guiding principle for 2424. Love it. It is a 12 hour haul to get to CICO2424. However, I do know that others travel more than twice that to get there; it likely will be in the cards for us, either coming or going, with an ultimate / turnaround destination probably being somewhat...
  16. Steve and Karen

    Latest Gear Finds And Hacks

    I would think that it could indeed. As a toaster... I forgot to warn that because the two sides don't open up, crumbs that collect inside it can be a bit of a pain to extract. So maybe it could do double- or single-duty as a diffuser.
  17. Steve and Karen

    Latest Gear Finds And Hacks

    None of these are earth-shattering, nor deserving of their own thread. In the interest of emptying the drawer I'm throwing out these finds which are the culmination of several months of poring over RV, van-life, and over-landing sites to find some "eureka" goodies. Maybe you'll find something...
  18. Steve and Karen

    Mr Heater Buddy Connection To Aux Propane Port?

    Alas, no. Not being one to just accept things as they are, I needed to know what was going on and have consequently spent a grossly inordinate amount of time pondering and parsing. A query to the Mr Heater Customer Service would likely result in a response of: "Just stop messing around with it...
  19. Steve and Karen

    Fenix Cl26r Pro Lantern, And Lantern Hanging Options

    I agreed wholeheartedly. Initially, I figured the $25 I spent (instead of $100 on the original) was indeed a gamble, but one that could be absorbed, financially, if it failed. However, I also do have to go to bed at night knowing that I cheated some legitimate engineer, designer and company...
  20. Steve and Karen

    Mr Heater Buddy Connection To Aux Propane Port?

    Well... it's not a "minor sensitivity" difference between the internal and external regulators. I bumped up the side port pressure to 30 PSI and that was still not enough to actuate the internal regulator at the 1 lb connector. And I used both 1 lb connections, in case one was finicky. When I...
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