that's water it's definitely water it's not much but it's in there all right going for
it well guys you can see dreamboats parked here next to the truck garage and the 60s
trailer has magically arrived um actually not so magically Andrew and I did a 48-hour
snatching grab from Virginia just to pick this up and get it here it has parts for itself
it has parts for Dreamboat and the anchor location that we were using um in Virginia
has relocated to Texas so now we'll have a new anchor location in Texas which is great
yep well we took advantage of a hole in the forecast where we weren't going to get any
work done here because it was going to be pouring down rain and it really did pour yeah
it was it was miserable to have to haul that thing back from Virginia in the pouring rain
but we took advantage of a you know that was what we could get done during that time so
that's what we did we haven't done much on the projects even though to today's the funny
day we've actually a week and instead Andrew has loaded a bunch of barn stuff and vintage
things tools toys tools and toys attic stuff stuff from the attic that kind of thing um
so that we can take it to a flea market and hopefully turn it into money as we continue
to downsize our stuff downsizing for me is always a continuous process so there's just
too much stuff I've saved here and there stuff that I just don't need so I need to get rid
of it
look at all your treasure Andrew
it's a big pile of something I don't know man I feel like a lot of this stuff
could have been in the scrap load you took yes [Laughter] but the truck was full then
too and Dad's truck was full it was a double load
uh our surge protector filled with water in all of that rain and shorted and we reached
out to the company it has a lifetime warranty and they're going to send us a new one but
with warehousing and supply chain stuff it could be the entire month of July that we'll
be waiting to get a new one of those what is that called a Progressive Progressive Industries
yeah those big we have the 30 amp because we have a 30 amp trailer so 30 amp um surge
protector you can hear a little water slosh in it um I don't know so those have a lifetime
warranty and they're you're supposed to use them outside so I'm surprised it's not watertight
but they stood behind their product and they said that they're going to send us a new one
and that we don't have to uh return the other one they want us to cut the cord off of it
so it's unusable and to dispose of it in the appropriate manner kind of excited about this
I'm really happy that they honored the warranty claim for it um they don't want me to send
it back they said just cut the cord off essentially to destroy it so I'm going to open it up and
see what's inside
you hear the dogs
usually that happens when the neighbors have left that's on there tight that nut that holds
the two halves together the seam right here has a rubber gasket and then that's seam continues
right up here so I need a wrench for that
I think I had some kind of sealant on the threads definitely a rubber gasket there
yep yep oh yeah that's a fair bit of water for something that's supposed to live outdoors
yeah so this is a pretty substantial amount of water just loose in here so it would have
been in a puddle at the bottom it looks like there's three boards up high but this is essentially
I assume the main breaker here and the lowest part of the breaker may have actually been
submerged in the water so it's no surprise that it failed well well yeah and when you
lift it or move it or lay it on his back or the wind takes it and swings it this water
is moving through all of those components yeah that's definitely bad so this thing was
displaying an E10 surge error which is that it survived a surge and protected our trailer
but I'm assuming that happened right when I connected it and the and the contactor on
the bottom was in a puddle of water that's probably when it happened I have seen them
on the Shelf at Camping World about an hour from here and it's gonna set me back over
300 bucks if I remember correctly so I really couldn't be happier that they warrantied it
um I hope the next one uh doesn't have the leakage issue that this one did maybe one
of the things we should do is not I mean we put it away regularly but like charge up unplug
yeah and unless we're using the air conditioning which you know I'm using it now to dry out
the humidity but it's the season for air conditioning so maybe we should bag it I'm always careful
to make sure it's like hanging vertical not down on the ground but past that I don't know
what to do
oh can I just interrupt your nap to ask you how it's going it's going all right the worst
thing about these is just getting up when it's still dark out and like racing here to
set up quickly and then you sit here in the hot sun and you're just like [Music]
it's not hot
[Music] [Laughter]
um video clip it's actually going to show that we're bringing some of it home unfortunately
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