Friday at FMCA Rally

We had a couple of service appointments scheduled at the rig on Friday, so we were looking forward to getting some things resolved... 

Carl started the day at another Lithium battery presentation, this one by Battle Born, a battery manufacturer...

while I went to a session on FMCA Benefits and Discounts, where I learned more about the advantages of being an FMCA member.

Carl was meeting a service person at Gracie at the time of devotions, so he was not able to attend... I took a picture of the verses of "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" because I had never heard the last verse (it seemed that most folks there had not heard it either).

Carl met an Oasis system service person at Gracie. We have been noticing that we are losing some of the coolant fluid -- and were hoping that he could help find where it was leaking. In conversation with Carl about the amounts of fluid that we were losing, he did not feel that it indicated a leak, but might rather be just normal evaporation loss, and the process of finding a leak would be much more complicated than he could do here at the show. We're going to keep closer track on how much and how frequently we have to add fluid and revisit this issue at another time. No charge for the consultation...

Soon after lunch, the HWH service person was going to come to look at the jack that the Henderson's person said was leaking hydraulic fluid. We had not looked to see what the fellow from Henderson's saw, so when we were back at the coach at lunchtime, we took a look...

This is the left front jack... you may be able to see some of the leak evidenced there...

... a better picture -- you can see the grime on the hose leading to the top of the jack and grime down the jack...

This is the jack on the other side with the hose and the jack relatively clean.

We were supposed to meet the HWH guy at their booth at 1:30pm, but at 1pm, there was free ice cream...

... when you're at a rally with, ahem, older folks, and something is "free", there will be a line!

... and it was Blue Bell Ice Cream! Yum!

After we finished our ice creams, I took Carl around the corner to see a neat tiny camper that is on display... The Vespa is over 60 years old, and, if I understood it correctly, the fellow built the tiny camper to go with it...

Kitchen in the back.

He has a YouTube channel and asked us to subscribe -- he is trying to reach 1000 subscribers because that is the point where he can "monetize" his channel. I was subscriber 921 at about 1:15pm -- I checked later in the evening and he had reached 997! (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkLEg7bIuUPYxrtXq3ehjiQ)

Carl went back to Gracie with the HWH guys...

... they found that the fitting at the top of the jack was loose, so they tightened it and then cleaned up the jack and hoses. They checked our hydraulic fluid and said that it was still fine, we hadn't lost much, and now that it is clean, we can check to make sure that it is not leaking any more. No charge for this fix.

I went to an afternoon session on Fire Safety -- a couple of slides from that presentation:

They recommended having a "bug-out bag" -- a bag with things that you may need to take out quickly with you in case of an accident.

They also went over some information about fire extinguishers.

The presenters were the inventor of the PROTENG system and his wife.  (https://proteng.com/) I was anticipating that it would be mostly a sales pitch for PROTENG, but they actually barely mentioned it. It seems Dusan originally created it for race cars (https://proteng.com/about-us), and it has been picked up by National Indoor RV Centers for installation on RVs.

One more day of the rally! We have learned a lot, enjoyed being with other RVers, and gotten help with a number of issues. We were starting to wonder whether our FMCA membership was worth it to us, and this rally has convinced us that it is!