NEC….The Caravan and Boat show

This morning we got up with the lark and set off for the NEC in Birmingham, it was a reasonable trip down the motorway deciding to use the M6 toll road wishing to avoid any delays which proved to be a wise choice.

The NEC is a massive venue with five halls full of caravans, boats, motor homes and accessory stands. 

show

Boats galore

We spent all day browsing through most of the accessory stands trying to complete a shopping list of items we had made the day before. Unfortunately most of the items we wanted were not there, so we will have to wait for the next show, preferably one that deals specifically with RV’s. With the thousands of people there we did latterly bump into two old friends from the Lancer Caravan Club, Mick & Christine Wood.

Yesterday we discovered a problem with the bedroom slide out, I noticed that the slide out didn’t go fully out when extended; it left a one inch gap all the way round. I found the problem fairy quickly, the previous owners children had left two tennis balls rolling around under the beds frame and these had become jammed between the RV’s side wall and the slide out.

I managed to retrieve the balls, but now the slide out will not fully extend to close flush with the wall. I think there is a clutch mechanism that has been disrupted by the presence of the balls, so it looks as if we will have to pay Signature another visit to get it re-set.

Well we can kill two birds with one stone, as we were due to have a bike rack fitted by Signature and as they are not too far away we can pop down to them and have those jobs done and re-top up with LPG at the same time.

I have now managed to get nearly all the lights inside the RV changed to LED’s, this will help when we go off electric hook up (EHU) or wild camping as some call it in the future, as these lights use only one tenth of the power filament bulbs use and so extend the length of time we can survive off battery power. I now have only eight more bulbs to change to go completely over to Led’s.

Led

 Tonight as we sit in the RV the rain is pounding the roof we will keep our fingers crossed that it dries out as we could do with more mild dry weather like yesterday as there are a few little jobs I want to get done around the RV.

More Anon.