What has been your favourite practical tip you have seen on a forum?

very heavy?
Please keep it to "camping/offroading preferred" thanks

Please keep it to "camping/offroading preferred" thanks

Oh Dave!! BFG A/ts are the go LOL!!! Michael

Please keep it to "camping/offroading preferred" thanks

More important is not to mix up your toothpaste and your Hemorrhoid cream. Otherwise you may end up with shrunken gums and a ring of confidence!!! Michael :))

Agreed, or start an "Engel v's Waeco" on a forum or at a campsite.

also don't use while coiled up as it creates a magnetic field! spread it out

Of you roll all leads cables and hoses, from the same end and in the same size loops every time they will just about roll themselves.

if ya work in AV, sound and lighting a small pack up may be 30 or 40 cables.

Always from the male end...always the same size....all good.

cheers

To reduce the twists in a lead. Roll it out then pull it around a tree a couple of times.

If ya leads cables or hoses are difficult to handle.....or someone has"upset" them....or they are new and all bent up from being packed.

Best thing is to stretch them out straight on some concrete, bitumen or an iron roof on a hot day..leave them there for an hour or so

Then roll them up nice and regular while they are still warm.

a cabe that is laid out strainght will roll better and the twists will fall off the end and you roll.

If a cable or hose is a mess, you have no hope of rolling it up nice untill you lay it out straight and get the twists out.

cheers

Bantam,
when you pull it round a tree it spins the twists out of it from rolling it up sideways

Try it sometime. Have you ever tried to lay a lead out flat when the temperature is low. Then you have to wait for the sun to warm it up if there is any.

We generally do the same thing but lay the cable out straight, pick it up run it thru our hands, or with a rag.

If a cable or hose is straight rolled and properly looked after.....it will contain a fixed number of latent twists......if you roll it from the same end and the same diameter every time it, those twists will reform in a helpfull manner and help you roll the cable.

cheers

Rock Apes suggestion about a computer fan for cooling the back of a fridge in a caravan.

Hey BooBoo...Can you direct me to that particular forum post ???

Wombat 100

If I don't stuff it up the following link is what you want.

Very easy to do, and you can get all the parts from jaycar.

http://www.dreampod.net/boroma/fridgefan.html

Jaycar, Wollongong are no longer selling the thermostat and resister components. Don't know if it is the same with other branches. Bob.

Works a treat,very easy to do,I took the wheel off though i think i will just jack it up next time.

How very thoughtful!

The rubber accessory that fits over a standard steel claw hammer face to use it as a rubber mallet also fits neatly over the ARB air fitting. (Available from Bunnings)