Wireless thermometers are great. To monitor outside temperature, just place the transmitter outside and watch readings on the receiver inside. While that's the typical use case, they can also be used to monitor the temperature inside a refrigerator. Without opening the door! For RV use that's particularly appealing.
I've been using
The windshield wipers on Loretta's motorhome have been a hassle. It's 1995 GM chassis sported old school wipers. Back in the day you replaced the squeegee part with refills. The arms were permanent. During recent travels, however, we found that availability of refills varied between slim and none. What to do.
A couple years ago she actually found some. The length was correct. Width and depth of the grooves was close enough. Nothing a little splaying and pinching couldn't solve. Then one of them lost it's keeper while driving in rain one day. The squeegee tried escaping but we stopped in time to recapture it. A small zip tie solved that problem. And the fix was repeated on the other side a while later. Otherwise, they worked.
Until they started degrading. Last time we tried
At 15 years and 180k miles I figure my truck is just about middle age now. I bought it used at 6 years with only 24k miles on the clock. While easy miles rate wise its first 8 years were spent in snow and salt winters. Since then I've been winterizing my RV by parking by a palm tree, catus, or both.
Before hitting the road in 2011. Moreover, before saying goodbye to my garage and work shop. My truck got a good once over, including new front brakes. At the time I noticed that the parking brake mechanism was seized from rust. But local auto parts stores at the time couldn't seem to get the parts needed to fix it. I rarely used the parking brake anyway. So time passed.
A couple summers ago I noticed a minor problem developing. There was