Our "New to Us" Winnie

[T1 Terry]

T1,
Looks like you’re having a fun time disassembling & reassembling the washing machine!
Not TOO many parts left over.

On a side note:
One of the Winnebago bods chipped me for lifting both front wheels off the dirt to level Girt on a site with an erosion gully right where we had to put the front end.
Explained that different pressures on the left & right hydraulic rams could pop the windscreen & permanently twist the chassis.
Lesson learned. We moved to another site.

Winnie levels side to side using the back legs, both front legs are deployed at the same time, haven't found a spot that bad that has required a lot of levelling side to side, front to back is generally the big one. Often the front wheels are off the ground, not by much, but still enough to unload the front tyres.

I doubt I'll have too many excess parts with this one. Full credit to the engineering design that uses an all plastic frame and body with only two pressed steel braces, one that basically hold the top apart, because the drum springs pull the centre in, and the control panel uses one to mount on across the front so it holds it in shape to screw the pressed tin front panel on.
Minimal major assemblies, so they just fit together .... just getting the assembly order correct is the tricky bit .... sometimes requires the odd disassembly again to get the clearance to put a part in that looked as though it went in after, like unscrewing the sides from the base again because the big nylon pins that hold the shock absorbers to the base need to be driven in with a bar and hammer ... but most of it has been fun ... getting my foot tangled up between the base and drum because I was trying to hold it down while stretching the spring to clip it in place .... resulting in me biting the dust and skinning the knees, a chunk just above the ankle where the washing machine took a bit out as I spun around on my way down .. and both elbows because it wasn't a graceful landing and the cement is not gentle on the exposed flesh

T1 Terry

[T1 Terry]

The damper weight and all the wiring are in the washing machine now ..... cup of coffee under the air con to cool down, then the task of finding where all the cable ties were supposed to go ...... and swap out a few more screws that looked like they were designed to go in the plastic ..... but turns out they were for the metal pieces that screw onto other metal pieces that don't have actual tapped threads ..... taking a closer look, I should have seen the difference with the V cut at the start of the tread so it acts as a thread tap ....... problem is they are facing the back across the bottom, and that's where the small platform lift is holding the thing up off the ground

Hope to do a load of washing in it later to see how it feels inside the Winnie when it's running

T1 Terry

[Greynomad]

T1,
Next time you take a dive, try to make it a double somersault with half twist and pike finish.
That way you can avoid the removal of skin from vital parts of your anatomy.

[T1 Terry]

Today was taken up with shifting some of the electrical stuff that would be behind the washing machine ..... not feeling real crash hot today, so not a lot was actually achieved ..... it would have been even less if I hadn't disconnected the battery and the mega fuse so I could shift it ..... thought about having a shower and going back to bed ..... no battery, no pump, no water for the shower or even to refill the water thingy on the coffee machine .... grrrr.... back to mounting the mega fuse and the 4 spot midi fuse holder and fitting new terminals to the smaller cables .... then making up busbars to fit between the control box Gigavac (big contactor) and the mega fuse holder and the output side of the Gigavac and the midi fuse holder ...... only to realise the control box isn't wired up yet back to making more busbars to go from the mega fuse holder to the midi fuse holder and one to link the 4 midi fuse terminals together on the supply side ...... finding a cable that I hadn't enlarged the terminal lugs enough to go on the Gigavac (10mm studs) to go from the battery to the mega fuse holder ..... it was 5pm by the time I'd restored power to the 12v system .... beer o'clock and time to make something for dinner

T1 Terry

[T1 Terry]

T1,
Next time you take a dive, try to make it a double somersault with half twist and pike finish.
That way you can avoid the removal of skin from vital parts of your anatomy.

Still needed the water to land in, the concrete would still have remove the flesh .... and no one would have seen the spectacular display before ended up spread out on the concrete
Still painful 2 days later, it was the knee that got smashed up in the car accident, so that didn't help either ....

T1 Terry

[T1 Terry]

Discovered the solar regulator was still disconnected after 8 days, when the battery voltage dropped to 12.5v
Then discovered the solar regulators was actually stuffed, wouldn't control the voltage, probably what destroyed the Full River batteries and cooked quite a few on the inside lights and fluro tube converter boards.

Removed the PL20 from the kitchen cupboard and tried to find out why they had rewired the solar to go through this cheap and nasty controller.

Wired it up to the crook controller wiring, and away it went tried to change the regulation to program 4 ..... and there was the answer ..... who ever rewired it and put this piece of crap regulator in, didn't know how to unlock the programming

Working a treat now, only 2 panels but it does peak at 14.4 amps, that will do until I get the additional panels up there on the roof.

T1 Terry

[Dot]

Well bugga me I have read the washing machine machine saga and the hole in the floor and still I am at a loss as to why? Was there a washer in the van when you got it and did you want a different one? No door /windows that you could get it through? Have you finished all of the other things you were doing? no pictures do I see to explain to this old lady .BTW how is Margaret doing? I have had trouble getting back onto the forum for a couple of days but after heaps of fiddling around I got back. Maybe a video would be a good idea?

[T1 Terry]

Well bugga me I have read the washing machine machine saga and the hole in the floor and still I am at a loss as to why? Was there a washer in the van when you got it and did you want a different one? No door /windows that you could get it through? Have you finished all of the other things you were doing? no pictures do I see to explain to this old lady .BTW how is Margaret doing? I have had trouble getting back onto the forum for a couple of days but after heaps of fiddling around I got back. Maybe a video would be a good idea?

No washing machine previously, the boss didn't want it inside, didn't fit through the door to go in a bin, wasn't game to lift the Winnie that high for it to slide under, so pulled to bits and rebuilt in the bin .... well, mostly rebuilt anyway. Doing the wiring to the new inverter that is mounted inside, beside the door against the forward side wall .... above where the washing machine will be when it is installed. This involved climbing under the Winnie, cutting more cables ties than seems sensible (but not as many as the Bus from Hell) pulling the wiring out from where it went to the previous smaller output inverter in the bin the other side of the door, and cutting cables to length and crimping new terminals. This inverter will demand a peak of 600 amps @ 12v, but very short term, 375amps continuous is the expected max, so 2 x 50mm sq positive cables and the negative cable is 100mmsq and I'll run a second cable back to the chassis negative connection if needed ... (there is a cable running from the shunt to this position on the chassis).
The original 3kva inverter had 3 mtrs of 50mm sq cable and it was burnt at the inverter end and the insulation looked to have been subjected to excess heat, so clearly the cabling was under size .....

I have to extend the 240vac cabling because of the crazy way Winnebago wire stuff .... it goes from the extension cord plug in spot (beside where the old inverter was) up to the electrical cupboard above the fridge, then back to the inverter, then back up to the same cupboard .... I guess this is so all the selection between generator/mains/inverter, was all in easy reach of the owner/operator, so they didn't have to look in a bin to select where the power was to come from .....

So, that is the progress so far .... clear as mud

T1 Terry

[supersparky]

I still haven't work out, yet, where or how the 240v does that bit of magic on ours. Took a little while to figure what was going on in that fully overstuffed cableway above the door.

[Dot]

OK as I see it Margaret didn't want the washing machine inside, may I ask why? much easier and convenient than in a bin. What size machine did you get? Ours is a domestic 7kg machine and went in well but I think we have a bigger door. Forget about the wiring it's a head banger to me. Did you get the bog all done? How is Margaret?

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