Friday, May 13, 2011 - Lafayette IN
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Lazy Daze Structural Repair, September 22, 2007
That tank mounting bolt broke long ago
See Monday's, Tuesday's, Wednesdays's and Thursday's posts for parts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of this messy story.
LD Lower Panel Detail, Sewemup Mesa Canyon, Gateway CO, April 28, 2011
I can't remember when I first noticed the curious concavity in the fiberglass of this lower body panel but it was back in late April during my travels up along the western edge of Colorado, about the time this picture was taken.
I can't remember when I first noticed the black tank dump valve sitting askew, but it was a long while back. I think I was still at the Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park in San Antonio NM when I noticed it. I left San Antonio NM back on March 15th to go up to Albuquerque for a new refrigerator.
That seems to imply that that damned inadequate and completely inaccessible single 1/4 inch carriage bolt holding the front of the tank up broke long ago. And that the tank dropped and rested on the rolled under fiberglass body panel for a good many rough country miles before it finally slid off on a swelteringly hot bone jarring ride on one of those poorly poured concrete roads in Iowa.
Amazing.
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Lafayette IN
Walmart Supercenter Store #1547, 4205 Commerce Dr, Lafayette, IN 47905 - (765) 446-0100
- Good level parking
- Verizon cell phone service - very good signal
- Verizon EVDO service - very good signal
- Locate this Walmart on my Night Camps map
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
The Heliograph in the Apache Wars
"The mountains and the sun...were made his allies, the eyes of his command, and the carriers of swift messages. By a system of heliograph signals, communications were sent with almost incredible swiftness; in one instance a message traveled seven hundred miles in four hours. The messages, flashed by mirrors from peak to peak of the mountains, disheartened the Indians as they crept stealthily or rode swiftly through the valleys, assuring them that all their arts and craft had not availed to conceal their trails, that troops were pursuing them and others awaiting them. The telescopes of the Signal Corps, who garrisoned the rudely built but impregnable works on the mountains, permitted no movement by day, no cloud of dust even in the valleys below to escape attention. Little wonder that the Indians thought that the powers of the unseen world were confederated against them."