Leveler chocks and a wine rack

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Bob, Is there any way that you could post a picture of that wine rack when you get back?? Would be most interested….BTW you are enjoying my favorite (yet affordable) red wine, that, and the merlot.

How do you fit the box in the wine rack? Hunter

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Bob, Is there any way that you could post a picture of that wine rack when you get back?? Would be most interested….BTW you are enjoying my favorite (yet affordable) red wine, that, and the merlot. How do you fit the box in the wine rack? Hunter

Square PVC??

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Just finished a couple of projects. No great insights, but they do work pretty well, so I’ll describe them for those interested. [snip] And now I think I deserve a glass of that Kendall-Jackson Cabernet. Leaving for Lake City on the 11th. 25 DAYS. All that’s left to do is pack and wash the thing this weekend. Can’t wait to get out of this heat. Bob Bob, Is there any way that you could post a picture of that wine rack when you get back?? Would be most interested….BTW you are enjoying my favorite (yet affordable) red wine, that, and the merlot. Have a good trip! RichT

One of these days I’m going to get around to putting up a web page, but it’s kinda down the list a ways. Anyway, this wine rack is nothing to look at, just a bunch of tubes stacked three high beneath the dinette cushion, with a 1/4 in plywood stop behind them to control bounce and slippage. By the way, it would work equally well vertically, if you don’t have a door. BTW, the second glass is even better. I buy it at Sam’s for 12 bucks a bottle (I think). Perhaps I’m tripping already. Fantastic! Bob

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I haven’t graduated to boxes yet. Can’t keep up with the technology. Bob

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Now there’s a blue collar question if I ever heard one. grin bob

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While the wine rack sounds like an interesting project, I find that a 12-bottle corrugated box, with dividers, that wine originally is shipped in makes a fine storage rack in my RV. And, it enables me to bring the empties home to use for my home brew. Seriously, I transport it that way under the bed – room for several cases. Lets face it, whether the bottles are standing up or lying down is immaterial, considering that sloshing wine back and forth in a moving RV is probably subjecting it to the ultimate indignity. Not that it has ever stopped me from doing it. Happy trails Brian

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I might have gone for the cardboard box, but last time out I had a flood, and no paper product will ever again be sitting on the floor if I can help it. As for the indignity of "sloshing the wine around," the only thing I know of that is undignified when sloshed is Yours truly, Bob

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Just finished a couple of projects. No great insights, but they do work pretty well, so I’ll describe them for those interested. [snip] And now I think I deserve a glass of that Kendall-Jackson Cabernet. Leaving for Lake City on the 11th. 25 DAYS. All that’s left to do is pack and wash the thing this weekend. Can’t wait to get out of this heat. Bob

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Just finished a couple of projects. No great insights, but they do work pretty well, so I’ll describe them for those interested. NO MORE LEGOS! :) I wanted two small levelers to use on my tandem axle 5th wheel. I used 2×6 treated pine, the sort made to be in contact with the ground. I cut one length just long enough to fit between the two tires on one side of the trailer. I cut another about 7 inches long. I nailed them together with the short section at one end of the long (bottom) one. I made a bevel on the ascending side, but it really isn’t necessary. Then I made another one for the other tire. It’s a simple, painless system, and you only have to move 16 inches to rise 3 inches. Both chocks store together in a space 16×6x6". The only problem might be getting the one between the tires stuck a little when backing off, so I put handles on the sides so I can jiggle it. If you put the handle on the left side of one and right side of the other, you will have a handle to the outside no matter whether you are backing or going forward. This is easier to see than to explain. Plus it makes them easy to carry. By the way, one of the best things I bought at camping world early on is one of those scissor type chocks that spread between the tires and keep both tires from moving. But be careful if you buy one. I think the mechanism puts out a lot of force, and could easily damage your tires. I found myself over tightening it at first. Pothole Proof Wine Rack The wine rack fits under the dinette seat. I have a door on the end that opens out into the trailer, and I needed some way to store the wine and liquor there without the bottles clanking together and possibly breaking. I previously used one of those cheap collapsible racks, but it disintegrated on my last trip. I used 4 inch thin wall PVC, which is light and cheap, and hand sawed it into 10 inch lengths. I laid it down in the bottom of the dinette seat with the ends facing the door. I got 14 sections in there in three layers- 5,4,5. I then notched the inside framing of the seat behind the bottles and slid a piece of 1/4 inch plywood in there so the bottles would bottom out against it and not be able to slip out of the back of the pipe. Then I cross braced it with a piece of molding at the bottom. It can be slid out easily. 4 inch pipe is large enough to hold quart or liter liquor bottles. I made the total interior length from the door to the plywood stop 14 inches to accommodate some of the longer wine bottles. I was going to glue it all together, but it fits so tightly I don’t think that will be necessary, and this way I can remove everything quickly for cleaning or in case of another flood. Knock, knock. And now I think I deserve a glass of that Kendall-Jackson Cabernet. Leaving for Lake City on the 11th. 25 DAYS. All that’s left to do is pack and wash the thing this weekend. Can’t wait to get out of this heat. Bob

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