Saturday, January 14, 2012

Quick repair job- thank goodness for handy men!

Early yesterday morning, our power suddenly went off.  Rat farts.  We thought it might have been in the park's pedestal, and had visions of having fried our coach system with a power surge, perhaps. 

A visit to the office got us Mike the park handyman, who checked the pedestal out, and decided it was a bad plug on our end.  Yikes....  We had visions of pulling up, heading over to the closest Camping World or something similar and replacing the entire power cord or something similar-  something in the 4-6 hundred dollar range of course. 

Emter Al, a half year resident of the park who is a retired electrician/electrical engineer/ electrical everything man.  Saved!!!!  We went over to a local electrical supply place, and for 32 dollars, got a replacement plug.  Al then came over and after about 15 minutes, we rewired the new head on, and all is well again.  He wanted to charge 10 dollars, but we paid him more, mostly in gratitude!  He really knew his stuff, and we were happy to have an expert be close by.  He didn't even mind having me as his electrician's helper!   Turns out the prongs in the old head had worked loose, and it wasn't able to make a connection between the 2 legs for 50 amp service.  All is warm and toasty and fine in the coach again. 

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