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May 16

Bedroom Slide Out Fixed

First, determining where to run the new wiring to the slide out. Then, the hard part: running or “pulling” the new wiring:

Under the slide out and over the water tank . . .

Out the RV’s side and then under the RV . . .

Finally, into the back of the electronics cabinet.

Many tediously made wire splices were involved . . .

At last, the moment of truth.

Music to my ears! (The squealing is normal.)

May 12

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Lake McClure – Barrett Cove Campground 2025

Back to our favorite site K-6. This time in May instead of April . . .

Closeup of our site with our StarLink Internet antenna . . .

Finally, our new-to-use drone overview of our site, the campground, and Lake McClure . . .

Flirt – with a leash. We walked her off leash as much as possible. She loved it.

Finally, our continuing photos of Lake McClure lake levels . . .

Apr 30

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In our last RV outing in Fall 2024, our Living Room slide failed to extend/retract electrically, so we had to manually extend/retract this large slideout (see https://rvseniormoments.com/2024/11/16/powergear-slideout-repair/). A real PITA.

Now, while preparing for our Spring shakedown trip, our Bedroom slide out failed. Great.

Since we’re leaving in a few days, there was no time for extensive repairs . . . so kludge time . . .

In order to get to the Bedroom slide motor, we had to lift up the mattress platform. However, it can’t be raised while the Bedroom slide is closed. The platform is too long.

Solution: saw off 2 inches of the platform . . .

Minus two inches of mattress platform, the platform now can be lifted . . .

After running kludge wiring to the slide out motor

We also ran wire from the RV batteries to the bed. The wire gets rolled up when we’re not moving the slide . . . and the wire is fused for safety.

Ta da!

Apr 22

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Rear Cap Finally Fixed

Back to RVing . . .

In July 2022 while on our way to Jalama Beach County Park, we stopped the RV suddenly and our attached Jeep reared up and smashed into the rear cap of our Sea View:

One year later after removing and repairing the roof ladder, we rough fixed the great open fiberglass wound:

Finally, in April of this year, we had a local auto body shop finish the repairs and paint the rear cap:

YAHOO !

Mar 21

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My iMac Died

I bought a used 2020 iMac about a month ago and things started going wrong about a week ago. Yesterday my iMac gave up the ghost and nothing I did brought it back to life. It’s a brick.

Here’s the story . . .

First, during the past week the “Mac screen of death” appeared more and more. My iMac would freeze and then restart with this screen:

After too many of these screens of death, I decided to reinstall the MacOS on my iMac. However, first I tried running the Mac’s Disk Utility First Aid, but that failed. After several attempts, First Aid kept failing.

Next, I tried cold starting the iMac while holding down the CMD and R keys in order to enter Recovery Mode.

INTERNET RECOVERY

However, after several minutes, this screen appeared:

Before my next attempt, using my MacBook laptop, I created a bootable external USB drive with MacOS installed.

EXTERNAL BOOTABLE MAC OS DRIVE

Then I connected the drive to my iMac, and restarted my iMac while holding down the Option key:

When the possible startup disks appeared, I selected the external USB drive I had just created (IMACSTARTUP):

However, 2020 iMacs have the T2 security chip installed which prevent start up from an external disk:

So . . . . another CMD + R restart . . .

I “passed” the first part of the T2 security chip procedure . . .

Finally, I thought I was getting somewhere. I selected “Exit to Recovery” and then selected the “Startup Security Utility” in order to get around the T2 security chip: