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rugblaster Samba Member
Joined: March 31, 2016 Posts: 1172 Location: San Angelo, Texas
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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2017 4:59 pm Post subject: Re: What's your favorite camping item you bring in your bus? |
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A .357 magnum handgun and CCI .38 SPL/357 shotshells for rattlesnakes. Especially in the springtime.
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'09 MB E350 '18 MB E400, '65 Plymouth Valiant convertible and a '19 Ford F250 King Ranch (nicer, but dirty, farm truck)
VWoA factory trained line tech 75 till 90 or so
ASE Master Certification
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otiswesty Samba Member
Joined: November 21, 2006 Posts: 1731 Location: Portland
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Posted: Thu May 18, 2017 10:29 pm Post subject: Re: What's your favorite camping item you bring in your bus? |
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Kahlua tiki bottle
_________________ 1978 Sage Green P22 Westfalia
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otiswesty Samba Member
Joined: November 21, 2006 Posts: 1731 Location: Portland
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Posted: Thu May 18, 2017 10:33 pm Post subject: Re: What's your favorite camping item you bring in your bus? |
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Bringing the fam along is nice too
_________________ 1978 Sage Green P22 Westfalia
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notchboy Samba Member
Joined: April 27, 2002 Posts: 22463 Location: Escondido CA
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Posted: Thu May 18, 2017 10:49 pm Post subject: Re: What's your favorite camping item you bring in your bus? |
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Looks like the later better looking version? Or is it the other way round?
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Abscate Samba Member
Joined: October 05, 2014 Posts: 22670 Location: NYC/Upstate/ROW
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 4:00 am Post subject: Re: What's your favorite camping item you bring in your bus? |
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otiswesty wrote: |
Bringing the fam along is nice too
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Totally awesome. _________________ .ssS! |
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alman72 Samba Member
Joined: October 09, 2014 Posts: 2573 Location: MICHIGAN
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Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 5:09 pm Post subject: Re: What's your favorite camping item you bring in your bus? |
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[quote="vwwestyman"]I've become a fan of the Ryobi brand 18 volt battery-operated tools.
I haven't needed to try it yet, but I've read about people using the batteries to charge up a flat car battery. Ryobi doesn't make a booster pack to use with the batteries, but the person said he held the jumper cables to the positive and negative sides of the battery and it worked OK.
This saved me yesterday. I had actually rigged up an old single battery charge top to slide over the battery that I attached some clips to. this was made after reading this post long ago. not even a click from the bus battery, hooked up the Ryobi, jumped in, and she fired right up. soooo sweet not having to deal with getting a jump in a tiny camp lot. You know I was backed into it. |
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vwwestyman Samba Member
Joined: April 24, 2004 Posts: 5688 Location: Manhattan, Kansas, USA
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Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 7:53 pm Post subject: Re: What's your favorite camping item you bring in your bus? |
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alman72 wrote: |
vwwestyman wrote: |
I've become a fan of the Ryobi brand 18 volt battery-operated tools.
I haven't needed to try it yet, but I've read about people using the batteries to charge up a flat car battery. Ryobi doesn't make a booster pack to use with the batteries, but the person said he held the jumper cables to the positive and negative sides of the battery and it worked OK. |
This saved me yesterday. I had actually rigged up an old single battery charge top to slide over the battery that I attached some clips to. this was made after reading this post long ago. not even a click from the bus battery, hooked up the Ryobi, jumped in, and she fired right up. soooo sweet not having to deal with getting a jump in a tiny camp lot. You know I was backed into it. |
That's great! I'm glad my post was able to help someone out. I still haven't tried it yet, but I saved an extra battery charger to cut up to make a connector at some point.
I bet you could make a connector to plug into the cigarette lighter to use in a pinch. I once drove a car a couple hundred miles with a marine battery sitting on the floor, feeding power into the lighter socket. Serpentine belt had broken late at night in desolate eastern Colorado late on a Sunday night and I had to get back for a job interview. _________________ Dave Cook
President, Wild Westerner Club
1978 Champagne Edition Westy, repowered to '97 Jetta TDI
1973 Wild Westerner
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otiswesty Samba Member
Joined: November 21, 2006 Posts: 1731 Location: Portland
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 12:08 am Post subject: Re: What's your favorite camping item you bring in your bus? |
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Abscate wrote: |
Totally awesome. |
Different busses, same kids, and same Mexican peninsula
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Abscate Samba Member
Joined: October 05, 2014 Posts: 22670 Location: NYC/Upstate/ROW
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 3:00 am Post subject: Re: What's your favorite camping item you bring in your bus? |
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otiswesty wrote: |
Abscate wrote: |
Totally awesome. |
Different busses, same kids, and same Mexican peninsula
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