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McMaster-Carr no longer carries exclusively 80/20 brand, most of what they carry is a competitive product. It is good stuff, but there are subtle differences. The 80/20 sources page lists other vendors that may have a local presence: https://8020.net/distributorlookup/index/search/ Look about...

Two of my vehicles with OBA have the QD's at the front and the rear. The next one gets the QD's at each side. I may decide to put some at the front and rear, but those will be for helping others and not for my own use.

I grew up a couple blocks away from a debris catch basin. As a kid I rode all around it on my bicycle, but when the rains came we all knew to stay off the little 'playa' created by the dam. The first time you walk out on what looks like dry playa only break thru the top crust and then have your...

Convert it to "Super Singles" and put this in the bed: https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/pts/d/san-francisco-alaskan-camper/7273207656.html

About 30 years ago I was sitting around a campfire with a bunch of other off-roaders on New Year's Eve in Trukhaven Hills. One of them had just had his Jeep featured on the cover of 4WD & Sport Utility. Another guy asked him "So, Danny, is your Jeep done now?" To which he replied "Hell, if it is...

T-nuts or sex bolts both create a sandwich of the plywood rather than relying on the tear-out strength of threading into the plywood. I don't particularly care for lag bolts, so one of the former would get my vote. Along with some 5200 or Hylomar or The Right Stuff (depending on what was close...

Oh, so that's the sequence in which that is supposed to happen! I always seem to get it bass-ackwards.

Me too. I used to solder all of my terminals and was very careful to not let the solder wick out of the terminal's barrel. One fatigue failed anyway and left me in the dark in the middle of CA's El Paso Mtns. with no power at all. At least I knew which wire it was! Buy a good crimper and learn...

I once launched a Suburban a couple feet into the air because the ABS kicked on. When I finally got it stopped I unplugged the ABS computer. The truck was working just fine and we were under control prior to it's interference. Sold the truck with it unplugged and advised the buyer to plug it in...

With the old camper we carried a 4 sided Clam Shelter ( https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Clam+Shelter ) with 4 privacy panels on it. Can set it up by myself in just a couple minutes. Takes longer to stake it down than it does to set it up. I started out thinking that we wanted an attached shower...

Our first camper was a 6.5' and our truck is an 8' bed. I placed the camper in the bed centered on the rear axle. That left a bit of a "porch" to stand on at the rear and a place where our camp chairs and table lived, along with the shovel and the chains.

I myself probably could go lower, but I've rarely seen the need. That is what my experience has been, but it should not deter anyone from going lower if they think it prudent or necessary. Most of us at one time or another have seen the vehicle stuck that a simple airing down would solve, but...

The vendor mentioned was the one who was most insistent that RG400 did not exist even after I supplied the spec! I was hoping that they might see the advantage of tefzel insulation over what it used in the lower grade coax's and that I'd be able to buy everything from one vendor, but it was not...

This thread made me realize that I mostly operate under the Rule of Ten. I run the tires on our camper truck at 50 cold on the highway (max for those tires). On really rough wash-board I drop them to 40. My previous '84 Xcab Toyota and now my '88 4rnnr both like 30 psi on the pavement. The rare...

I used an NGP NMO antenna and mounted it like this: Hard to see in that pic (& it is the only pic of it that I have), but there are some 1/4 SST tubes that protect the base coil from branches etc. With the new to us camper I had to cut and turn the mounting portion 90°, then weld it back...

Bought a rubber bed mat after Hole in the Rock had the camper shimmying all over the place. Hasn't moved since. Ours is the thick type that weighs about 50 lbs. and has random nylon threads visible on it's sides.

I use "Star" type lock washers to penetrate any dielectric coatings rather than scraping off those coatings. They want a ground to the truck frame because most everything else on the truck uses it for a ground reference. I forget what brand and year truck you're working with, but usually the...

I've searched it in the past and found it, but there is a particular wood species (along the lines of mahogany or teak, but not as expensive as either of those) used for Class 8 flatbed trailers and the better built truck flat beds. This wood comes milled tongue and groove just for the reason...

Yep, have that pdf, but have not yet had time to study it in depth. I don't think that I would build it exactly as a cold molded boat. For instance the sides and top would be whole sheets rather than strips of okume ply or similar. However I do envision the roof having somewhere about a 200" or...

Seems to me that you could pretty easily build a wood framed door that was bonded together and then sealed with epoxy resin to keep the rot at bay. I know that polyester resin will attack the styrofoam insulation, but I don't think that epoxy resin does. Worst case, you have to paint the foam...

I have been pondering a camper build myself, so I've been thinking about these sorts of considerations. I have a couple issues with using aluminum for a camper frame, and neither has anything to do with welding that metal. First is that it is a very good thermal conductor. If you use 1" tube...

Take a piece of strap metal and drill it to match the mounting holes on the rear of the lights, and bolt them on. Then place a pair of hose clamps around the square tube and the strap that you made for each light. One clamp will hold way more than the light, but it may not prevent it from...

How many watts total in solar? Seems like your problems started with the added panel. Breakers are supposedly directional, but it would not surprise me if one tripped from charge current (current going the other direction effectively reversing the polarity across the breaker). However, you...

A guy that I used to work for grew up in UT somewhere near a ski resort. They used to call in the UT Nat'l Guard to use their artillery to start those avalanches for both the ski area and the highways. Worked great until one year when they had a couple NuuB's on the crew and a shell cleared the...

Ya'll remind me of a camping trip in OR somewhere North of Halfway and South of Joseph about 30 years ago. We're tent camping as is about 1/2 of the campground. RV pulls in and they set about setting up. Which included moving their generator out to the limit of the length of their extension...