Sunday, May 15, 2011 - Celina OH
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Lazy Daze Torn Apart Bathroom, May 13, 2011
Accessibility
I like stuff accessible.
Simple.
Discovering that completely inaccessible 1/4 inch carriage bolt holding the front of the black tank in place really puts a knot in my shorts. It's one of those things all manufacturers do, I guess because it's cheap and easy. When the bolt was installed through the floor the fresh water tank hadn't been mounted above it yet. No problem - drill a hole in the floor and drop a 1/4 inch carriage bolt through it. The nut is accessible from below and unless the bolt rots it's not likely it will ever need to be replaced.
But if the rig spends time in a humid climate, like this one did until it came my way, and the bolt rusts....
Makes me grumpy to think how much worse this whole tank mount failure could have gone.
Now about that vent pipe one has to rip the bathroom apart to access. And access it one must to get the vent pipe hooked back up if the tank is ever dropped for any reason.
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Celina OH
Walmart Supercenter Store #1433, 1950 Havemann Rd, Celina, OH 45822 - (419) 586-3777
- Good level parking
- Verizon cell phone service - good signal
- Verizon EVDO service - good signal
- Locate this Walmart on my Night Camps map
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
Others Choose the Path of Healing
The labor camp in Erfurt and, after the war, the refugee camp in Mainz were all I knew when I came here [from Germany] in 1947 at the age of seven. Like many camp survivors, it was not the experience itself that dogged me as much as the why of it. The why seems clearer every day: those who see themselves as victims, nations included, have license to commit these things. Others choose the path of healing.
Michael Guran, architect, in Jesse Monongya, Opal Bears and Lapis Skies by Lois Sherr Dubin