Our "New to Us" Winnie

[supersparky]

They work pretty well, but tie it to the trailer if it's windy.

[BernieQ2]

We just peg ours down, have owned it since we started travelling
Bernie.

[Dot]

Very 1st thing we used for a washing machine was a plastic bucket, the lid had a hole in it and we put a plunger in the hole and after the days traveling used the plunger to belt the contents, also tried the bucket with a few rocks in with the clothes and the motion washed the clothes and also had a go at the posh barrel thing you turned with a handle but found the rocks and plunger better than the bought barrel, Never used a laundromat after hearing what some people wash in them esp in the outback places, always use the wool wash and we only use 15 lits a time. Best for T1 is to jump in the nearest creek with his clothes ON.

[T1 Terry]

They work pretty well, but tie it to the trailer if it's windy.

Three coach screws, about 6" long, through the legs and into the ground hold it in position without much of a problem, use the battery drill and socket to unscrew them out of the ground when packing up and drop them into the carry bag ready for next time.

T1 Terry

[Greynomad]

Same same!
Except we travelled with only one clothes line & 8” coach screws. That was for the sox, jox & Tshirts.
I also added s/steel saddles to the awning arms & made up two custom clothes lines with a turnbuckle eye-spliced into one end, and a dog-lead clip eye-spliced into the other end.
Worked a treat for towels & sheets!

[T1 Terry]

We are now at the 1 mth mark for the inverter drama .... at least it's installed and wiring connected at that end.
Yesterday was yet another trip to Bunnings, this one at Mt Barker, they didn't have big red heat shrink either for my plan of using a piece of the 4/0 black cable to run from the battery to the mega fuse, and use heat shrink to make it a red cable ..... so a piece of white heat shrink and a can of red paint was the next choice

The trip to Mt Barker was to get a piece of 3mm stainless sheet from Paramount Browns to make the removable floor to finish the washing machine install, naturally they didn't have any, so two pieces of 3mm aluminium it was ... $82 something unbelievable as it was cut from an already cut sheet ..... never mind, it was bought and paid for, so home again to make the black cable into a red cable.

Next was cleaning all the cell links and coating them with Alminox, now I'd found the tube of it, connecting up the BMS fused connections and the induction coil balancer ..... nearly have that part finished, but the body called it a night, so back into it today ..... I'll have to pick up the pace now the days are an hr shorter ......

T1 Terry

[T1 Terry]

The washing machine is in and doing its first load ..... it appears a mths worth of undies and socks makes up a full load The drain hose is going into a 25 ltr container to see how much a wash and two rinses of water is .... and maybe gauge if it would be suitable for the next wash if we were on the road ..... but it will water the dead grass out front while we have town water available .....
It does need a can of appliance white to touch up a few scrapes that occurred during the multiple trips through the hole in the floor, and I have my doubts about the surround going back on the front ..... I'll wait till after the spary can repairs

T1 Terry

[jon_d]

Fantastic.Good to hear it's working.

and I have my doubts about the surround going back on the front ..

All this effort ..... and no front? that'll look nice - not.

[T1 Terry]

Fantastic.Good to hear it's working.

and I have my doubts about the surround going back on the front ..

All this effort ..... and no front? that'll look nice - not.

We will see just how it looks after the spray paint recondition .... only a few small scratch patches, but now is the time to fix it .....

T1 Terry

[T1 Terry]

A few photos

Whashing machine installed and functioning, less front suround.jpg

For Shirley who doubted the capabilities of a 3kg washing machine

Mths worth of socks and jocks in one wash.jpg

Don't get over excited there Dottie, the floral and Tradie ones aren't mine First one is crap photo, but hard to get it all in one shot .... ok, they are both crap photos

A load of socks and jocks on the line.jpg

A load of socks and jocks on the line 2.jpg

!7 T Shirts in the wash this time .... probably could have fitted 20 of Margaret's but mine seem to have grown from medium to 3XL over the yrs ..... must be the big stomach bones

T1 Terry