Recent content by Scout80

I've had the ladies at my local post office tell me to do exactly this - use the PO address plus the box number - when having someone send something that they refuse to ship to a PO Box. Also handy for the few places that I've dealt with that refuse to ship to a residential address for whatever...

Exactly why I have quit using Ryobi cordless stuff...every single Ryobi lithium battery I've had suffered a death inside of a year, and it was always unexpected. Will work fine all day long, then suddenly it won't charge anymore. Sure, they're dirt cheap in comparison to the others, but over...

Even as someone who HATES anything that depends on the cloud to be functional... Problem you'll find with no cloud devices is that if someone steals the camera after the fact, or the recording box, or the entire RV...you're boned as they just took the video evidence with them as well. In my...

I work with a guy that has his "residential" address set to a RV park in Parker, AZ with all of his vehicles registered to that address and a PO Box near his house in Phoenix as the mailing address. Though in his case, he did it just as a way to get around having to deal with running his...

I frequently see this in the Sam's Club/Costco stations around me - 6-8 lines across, all backed up 10+ cars deep...all to save a couple dollars on a fill up. I did it...once..and waited over an hour to get fuel. I don't know what the idling fuel consumption rate of my truck is, but I suspect...

Working on rebuilding an '87 Fiesta on a Ford E350 chassis. I understand these things are _very_ similar to the Falcons of the era, and probably others as well. Though it seems there's only so many floor plans and set ups that can be crammed in to one of these vans, and that number isn't big...

Oh no, he genuinely believed that Phoenix literally did not exist until the 50s or 60s when people could get air conditioning in their homes... I remember my first week here, a decade ago. I hooked up with one of the local dirt bike clubs, and we were to go somewhere out in the desert for a...

I've been licensed for almost 9 years...but I honestly can't even tell you the last time I turned on one of my radios for actual HAM use. I have an Icom 706 in the Samurai that gets used on 11 meters on trail runs, and that's about it. Yeah yeah...illegal use, couldn't care less than the FCC...

Incorrect.  None of the Big 3 have ever offered a factory 4x4 van, however the Quigley conversions are typically delivered through the local dealers, so that tends to create some confusion.   There's always been the groups of people that think new is bad, and old stuff will last FOREVER while...

THIS ^^  I came to that conclusion before I even hit 18.  If, and that's a big IF to me, I actually do get SS when I retire..(heh..when..wishful thinking on my part!) it will just be bonus money to me.   To me, Social Security is just the government saying "we assume you're too irresponsible to...

One of my buddies back home is a stereotypical Asbergers - scary intelligent, IQ through the roof, does things with computers/technical things that impresses most "technically oriented" people, shocking lack of social skills, etc. Even he seemed shocked that I would intentionally move to...

Annndd...I'm already learning! Doing the insurance company merry-go-round this morning, finding that, like many others, once they hear "conversion", I get an emphatic NO! At one company that just flat won't insure any van, RV modified or not, period. Realistically, I'm still hoping to be...

Heh...I'm just a bit west of Phoenix, and I'm already feeling like it's too dang cold! I moved to the low desert for the heat, not this shivering crap! LOL!

Yep, I'm probably not like most here, as while I think it would be an awesome experience to live on the road for a while, it's not my current intention.  I've been through a number of campers over the years, most recently with a '74 Amerigo truck camper.  While I like it quite a bit, rot has...