Standard wake up conditions! It was a lot warmer last night, and we were back into the 70’s this afternoon.
After breakfast we took our daily exercise strolling around the site for 1.7 miles. We picked up the mail,Lyn was happy as she had ordered a “surprise” package from one of her quilting stores and it had arrived. Seems the package was full of usable goodies!
Back at the trailer I decide it was time to take off one of the wheels and check out the bearings. The reason for doing this was that I had read a number of reports of issues with the bearings not being properly packed with grease when they left the factory, this could lead to two unwanted conditions. One is lack of grease causing the bearings to overheat and fail, the other is too much grease which gets forced out onto the brake pads.I got the trailer jacked up and then took the wheel off, when I got down to the wheel bearing I was expecting to find a grease fitting which would allow me to add more grease if needed. It wasn’t there! A little bit of research on the web showed that our trailer was fitted with an upgraded set of bearings which were sealed and needed no maintenance, let’s hope that is true. The wheel was put back and the lug nuts torqued to the correct value, hopefully we are all set to start travelling in January.
Today it was warm enough to eat lunch outside again, things are definitely looking better. After lunch Lyn headed over to the clubhouse for the first craft meeting of the season. Even this early in the season they managed to attract seven people, so they were quite happy.
While Lyn was busy socialising I set about preparing, and then painting, the rear view camera I am planning on putting on the trailer. I wanted a camera that was housed in a weatherproof box, rather than the type that required a large hole to be drilled into the fibreglass body. Trouble is, these cameras only came in black housings, unless you wanted to add $100 to the cost. I figured a $3.49 can of spray paint would solve the problem. The final product looks pretty good, the next challenge will be to mount it and make sure the end result is weatherproof