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Water systems

How to use a Truma Ultrastore water heater

Posted: 11.08.2011

DO YOU STRUGGLE to get the best performance out of your Truma Ultrastore water heater?

If you can't make head or tail ...

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Towcars

Convert your towcar to 13-pin electrics

Posted: 11.08.2011

ALL CARAVANS OF 2009 model year and after have 13-pin electrical plugs that will not connect to 12N and 12S car sockets. The solution ...

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Project Vans

Elddis Project: Completing the water installation

Posted: 10.08.2011

THE FINAL STEP in modernising the water system was to fit a Whale Watermaster socket in place of the old foot and electric pumps. I ...

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Project Vans

Elddis Project: Replacing a leaking rooflight

Posted: 10.08.2011

WHEN REMOVING THE defunct space heater from our Elddis project caravan, I noticed that the rooflight was leaking because the mastic had ...

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Project Vans

Elddis Project: Removing the Carver/Truma space heater

Posted: 10.08.2011

OUR 1983 PROJECT caravan had a Carver 1800 space heater – which had stopped working long before Practical Caravan bought it. Truma ...

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Project Vans

Elddis Project: Fitting a Carver Cascade water heater

Posted: 10.08.2011

RECENTLY, I TOOK out the old Morco water heater to replace it with a Carver Cascade. Cascades fit through the wall into the caravan. ...

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Fixtures and fittings

How to use a Truma caravan heater

Posted: 09.08.2011

IF YOU'VE BEEN caravanning for years, it's easy to think that everybody already knows how to get the best performance out of a Truma ...

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Project Vans

Elddis Project: Work on the 12V system and water heater

Posted: 09.08.2011

IT HAS BEEN several weeks since I last had time to work on our 1982 Elddis Whirlwind. So far I’ve concentrated on the electrics. I ...

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On the road

Tyron Bands - Fitting them to caravan wheels

Posted: 08.08.2011

AS YOU PROBABLY know, Tyron Safety Bands are a device which you fit to a wheel to minimise the effect of tyre failure. You can fit them ...

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Electrics

Reader DIY: How to fit a dishwasher in your caravan

Posted: 04.04.2011

READER RICHARD MINNS has one of the most popular and useful mod cons installed in his caravan – an automatic ...

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