Scotty Hutto

On 3/1/2020 at 1:55 PM, Steven P said:

...I do need to invest in some blocks.  What do you use?  Where do you place them?  Thanks.  

I bought a pair of 12 ton jack stands. The most weight I have on any corner is 9,600 lbs, so the 12,000 lb per jack rating seems sufficient. I place them under the frame rails.  

Several of my friends have taps on their LP systems for grills, fireplaces, and other accessories. Looking at my owners manual, it refers to “exterior gas line hook up prep”. On my Diplomat, behind the water heater is a black iron pipe with a shut-off valve, then about a 2” section of pipe that is capped. 

1) Can anyone confirm if that is the “hook-up prep”?

2) If so, isn’t that on the low pressure side of the regulator?

Thanks,

Scotty 

Mine acted similarly prior to the motor going bad.  I think it may have broken a tooth on the gear. New step motor fixed it for me. 

So sad!  My condolences and prayers for his wife and family. 

Just chit-chat, but I hear friends — and have them asking me questions about our RV. Some who used to prefer hotels and resorts are now thinking an RV with their own personal space is how they will vacation in the future. 
 

Could bode well for the industry, not so well for finding that perfect camping spot if it plays out that way. 

On 5/6/2020 at 6:53 AM, Bob Nodine said:

Also Bill Groves who is a member here is quite knowledgeable on this subject.

 

@Hotrod can you weigh in?

All,

I had to delete multiple posts on this thread as they were political, which is not allowed by our site guidelines.  
 

There are plenty of places to discuss politics; this isn’t one of them.  

Ok Gang!  It *appears* the Daily Digest is working properly.  Let me know if you have any more issues. 

Steve,

I’m late to the game, and it sounds like you’ve probably covered the bases, but on the one Sharp TV I have, you can actually disable the HDMI ports with the remote. If you talked with Sharp tech support they probably covered it, but I thought I would mention it. 
 

Menu -> System Options -> Input Terminal Setting -> HDMI Setup -> Enable/Disable

Maybe thats the magic bullet. 😂 When I bought this TV it was a demo, and I couldn’t get it to work. Turns out they had disabled the HDMI ports and put it in Demo mode. 🤷🏻‍♂️

PS - it is a Sharp Aquos circa 2009...

9 minutes ago, Mel S - '96 Safari said:

...However a  monacoer.org member has a Facebook group he named "Monacoers"...

No judgement here, just sharing some additional  information... There are three somewhat related groups on FB:

- The Monaco Owners Group - Steve Giano's site, the largest of the three by far (3,300+ members), which has many, many members in common with this site, but there's no direct relationship between the sites. Steve created this group in 2017 before the new site came about and while this group was still on Yahoo!.  I believe it was the first Monaco site on Facebook. They allow us to post our events on their group, and we cooperate with each other.

- "Bill D's Monacoers" Group on FB that was created by Bill Groves @Hotrod at the request of Dave Pratt to drive traffic to this site.  There are few posts and the site primarily redirects people to this site. This helps our ranking when people search on Google, Yahoo, or DuckDuckGo (Search Engine Optimization, or SEO).

- A Monacoers group on FB also created by Bill G that gets occasional posts and is meant to be complementary to this site, but does have occasional posts.  Posts on there are frequently posted on here also.  This actually helps our SEO more than the "Bill D" group because it is an active site using the word "Monacoers".

There may be other Monaco FB groups that I am unaware of, but none to my knowledge that use the name "Monacoers". In addition...

- There is also an extensive group on IRV2 under the Monaco name.  IRV2 strictly prohibits any mention of Monacoers.org as they consider it a "competing" site (I may or may not have gotten some stern emails from them when someone mentions our site).  I never really thought we competed, I always thought we were complementary sites, but since IRV2 is now owned by a for-profit entity they have clamped down on the mention of other sites.  There is a lot of useful information there, and again, a lot of overlap with our membership.

That doesn't include all of the subsets of Monaco coaches - Holiday Rambler groups, Beaver groups, Safari groups...  

Maybe one day someone can compile a complete listing, which I believe would be of benefit to the community.

Scotty

26 minutes ago, Dr4Film said:

I would have suggested to set up a POLL to actually find out how many people prefer the old site to this new one BUT unfortunately this site doesn't have a POLLING option.

Actually, it does have a polling option...  You must start a new topic, and there is a POLL tab... near the top of the screen 😉

As far as preferences, it doesn't bother me that some folks prefer the old Yahoo! site. That site served this community very well for over 15 years!  If Yahoo hadn't yanked the rug out from under us (and every other Group), it would have saved your Moderators quite a bit of time over the last 6 months!

That said, I'm partial to the new site because we can do so much more with it.

Best Regards,
Scotty

6 hours ago, Steven P said:

 Although, I have not seen negative posts about this site?  Maybe they have been removed?

Nope, nothing has been removed, but the moderators got a few nasty emails through the "contact us" form...

Thanks for your patience everyone.  We believe all to be fixed now...

Daily Digests will start back this afternoon, and assuming they don't blow up, will continue each morning.

The Weekly Digest has been shelved until the developer can figure out what happened.

I can't tell if individual unsubscribe requests stayed intact - you*may* have to go back and unsubscribe again tomorrow for those who don't receive the daily digests - but wait until tomorrow, please, and then it may take a cycle or two for the unsubscribe request to "take hold".

Best,
Scotty

25 minutes ago, amphi_sc said:

... It appears to have only recorded up to #29.  Is that a clue as to what happened?

That’s a result of me shutting down the system before it completed the task. I don’t know that there’s a way to recover it. 

As best we can tell, either there is an error in the code, or running two Digests (Daily and Weekly) with overlapping content caused some unexpected behavior... The application developer is trying to figure that out, and I won’t restart the Weekly Digest until we have an answer.

I will restart the Daily Digests soon. The first Daily will cover everything since the crash, the following that will revert to the regular “daily” update. 

The system has finally purged and executed all of the pending orders.  I think we’re in the clear...

I’ll restart the Daily Digests when I get my courage up...  I’ll check in to see if it kept your preferences to unsubscribe...

It’ll be a while before I try the Weekly Digests again.  🤦🏻‍♂️

What an ordeal!!!

Scotty

Hey Mike,

Please check out the thread "Digests" in this section for a full recount of the issue.  

We had one of the website applications go rogue on us and we are working with the application developer and the Invision support team to correct it.

I apologize for the inconvenience.

Scotty

5 minutes ago, Steven P said:

Mine has gotten better.   My last one was just after midnight.  

Thanks.

Apparently it started this morning with the Daily Digest, and you previously unsubscribed from that.  🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Scotty

The Daily Digest has also been suspended, as it started this behavior this morning.

Invision Support stopped the batch process with Weekly Digests.  I have engaged the NewsLetters application developer to resolve the bug.

If you are receiving multiple Daily Digests, please be patient.  It is turned off and we are working to correct the issue.

Stay tuned.

Scotty

Latest information...

When you "unsubscribe" it runs that as a batch process (usually overnight), so the changes don't take effect until the next day.

In this case, our batch process is stuck, and the unsubscribe requests are queued to run, but can't until the batch process is fixed.  

I have been communicating with our provider, Invision, all evening trying to get this resolved. 🤦‍♂️

Your patience is appreciated. I am, after all, a volunteer... 🙋🏻‍♂️

Thanks for the heads up.  We're working on this and have shut down the Weekly Digest completely until the problem is resolved.

Please direct future comments to the "Digests" thread where I can track all of them in one place.

I have contacted Invision support.  Although I have disabled the Weekly Digest, apparently there is a batch process running that got hung up. I am at their mercy at this point, as mere humans aren't allowed to mess with batch processes...  

The Weekly Digest has been disabled until this issue is resolved.  
 

Please let me know via message or email  if you have this issue with DAILY digests also. 
 

Thanks,

Scotty

Quick question...

is it ONLY the Digests that are doing this, or all communications?

that will help me trace it down. 

I’m trying to figure this out...  shut down the site email capability this afternoon but apparently they are still going out. 
 

please be patient...

Oh my! 😢

To that point, I had just done my Guardian Plates a few weeks before, so I had the long handle rivet tool for the SS rivets. 

To that point, I had just done my Guardian Plates a few weeks before, so I had the long handle rivet tool for the SS rivets.