What did you do to your van today?

While away the flip up shelf at the end of the bed came lose, crap fixing, only two screws go into the tiny shelf hinged bracket approx 20x20mm lightweight ply so not very good, I took it off and put slightly fatter screws in which made it secure again added another then three going the other way, it is a stupid design as it drops down when you want to make a bed and as I'm about 3 inches shorter than the bed I find my feet press against it and as it only has a simply triangular support bracket that swings out it pivots around it and the top get lose so I just need to find a bit of something the right thickness to add a couple of stand off pieces to it at the bottom corners so it can never happen again.
 
Fitted new led strip in the toilet,
Gave it a good wash after the dirty Scottish roads
Oh and paid local garage to swap front to rear on the wheels
 
Turned Brunhilde into a Scaffy Wagon again to haul a mound of books, clothes, kitchen utensils and 4.25 years of accumulated French mail to the Recycling Centre. Then drove her for about 15 miles no higher than 5th gear holding around 2500rpm to try to force a regen after 2 weeks of 5 mile round trips to the Recycling Centre getting rid of redundant kit. tools and OSC [other sundry crap]

Spent the afternoon emailing copies of documents to the Estate Agent in preparation for the [hoped for] eventual sale. If I have to write 'Lu et Approuvé' one more time, I shall stick some poor Herbert's head down said Loo and flush it ... :rolleyes:

Steve
 
Scaffold and pressure wash out to tackle the French and Spanish bird poo on MH roof and awning, how do you tell the difference between French and Spanish when jetting it of the roof?

The Spanish makes a noise like, Tollie 😂
 
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Decided to fit a couple of Mopeka Level Sensors to the Motorhome.
The Water levels are already provided via the Sargent system but only at 25% graduations, but get no info on the LPG. Bought a bundle pack of two sensors, a pair of rings (which I have no idea what you are meant to do with!) and a display (which have little use for, so probably will be up for sale :) ), plus a support ring housing for use with plastic tanks (for the water tank).

Have to do some fine tuning to get it calibrated on the Victron Cerbo but looking handy and no need to guess if it is time to put some LPG in the Gaslow bottle :)
New info on the right hand side now.
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The new Victron GUI V2 is quite funky and the Sensors show in the 3 rings nicely
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(The lines should be full all the way as the LPG and Water are at 100% but not set the full parameters yet. This shows however what the rings will look like as the levels drop, so quite visual).
 
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With all the running around getting reports, surveys etc and cleaning up the hovel in anticiation of its sale, I'd quite forgotten about Brunhilde! Then I remembered in the wee small hours yesterday that I hadn't emptied the freshwater tank since we arrived over 2 weeks ago, and there was also some residue in the grey water tank. Driving over n number of speed bumps on the entrance to the village and driving through twisting streets sloshed the latter around and shifted a lot of the debris ...

Emptying the freshwater tank, parked on our neighbours' private road required a 7-8 litre bucket and a 60m round trip to empty into our water drain, so lots of steps for the exercise chart!

Soon be time to make the last of the trips to the Recycling Centre, so we'll be able to give the M/Home interior a good cleaning and have it looking less like a Scaffy Wagon ... :ROFLMAO:

Steve
 
Not much, I only opened the door to get my old multimeter out, I have a Parkside charger that stopped working I have a another of a different type so need to look at that too.

Quite pleased with myself as I diagnosed that it was the PCB mounted fuse which had blown, I've never used it for much more than checking volts or continuity before.

I just need to find someone local to supply and fit the fuse, I'm rubbish at soldering, I need to check the charger for the other one and get both done if it's the same problem, I keep one in the van just in case.

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Pudsey Bear said:
Not much, I only opened the door to get my old multimeter out, I have a Parkside charger that stopped working I have a another of a different type so need to look at that too.

Quite pleased with myself as I diagnosed that it was the PCB mounted fuse which had blown, I've never used it for much more than checking volts or continuity before.

I just need to find someone local to supply and fit the fuse,
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I am reading this as a post about fixing a multimeter and not a charger at this stage?

If so .... You say it is an old Multimeter. Depending how good it was and still is, I would be careful about paying someone to supply and fit a fuse? You could find the cost of doing so is more than a replacement Multimeter would be? (and of course, fuse may have blown for a real reason and a new one will just blow again so no farther forward).
Unless the Meter is a pretty nice one, I'd suggest bining it. (e.g. I would try and fix my oldest Meter even though it is 40 years old as it is a quality Fluke one. I wouldn't think about fixing another much newer old meter I have that cost under a tenner)


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I'm rubbish at soldering, I need to check the charger for the other one and get both done if it's the same problem, I keep one in the van just in case.
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