Two down, one to go......

2:09 am - Thursday - November 4th - Fontana, CA - 82° F, 21% humidity, wind 6 mph out of the west by southwest.....clear, blue skies today with a forecast high of 84° F.  On this date in 2015 we were in Carson City thinking we had not moved farther south soon enough.......↴

I replaced the original, inline, water pressure regulator in our coach about 6 years ago as the old one began to leak.  When I replaced the original one I thought I would not have to deal with that issue again in my lifetime, but I was wrong.  When we were at SRRVC for a year I was having issues with the water pressure getting less and less.  The current regulator is adjustable, and I was able to adjust it enough to resolve our water pressure issue.  Now we come to the present day at the Fontana/Rialto Elks Lodge.  For some reason they have excessive water pressure here, and everyone uses an external pressure regulator at the hose bib to keep their hoses from bursting.  This is the only place I use an external water pressure regulator, and when I dutifully installed it (to be clear I have 6 of them collected over the years from customers who left them behind at the various RV parks at which we have worked).  Unfortunately, the combination of the two pressure regulators reduced our pressure to the point where our water heater would not come on.....not enough water pressure.  To be sure the external pressure regulator was operating properly I installed (one at a time) the other six we have, and got the same results, so it was not the fault of the external regulator(s).  I then turned my attention to the inline pressure regulator.  No matter how much I adjusted the pressure on the inline one the water pressure did not increase.  So, what to do?  We haven't had this problem here at the Elks Lodge before so I knew it had to be the inline regulator causing the problem, so I ordered a new one, got it Tuesday, and installed it Wednesday with only a marginal improvement in water pressure...enough improvement, mind you, to allow our tankless water heater to turn on, but far from satisfactory........hmmmmm?.

The new regulator

The old, unclogged, pressure regulator

I decided to take the 6 year old pressure regulator apart (it's the same as the new one) to see if I could see what was wrong.  I found it was clogged, which explained why no matter what I did the pressure did not increase.  I was able to clear the clog, and put it back together, and then installed it in place of the external pressure regulator which is not adjustable.  Now I was able to adjust water pressure at the source, and subsequently gained a solid 25 psi in water pressure.....who knew?  By the way, if we run into each other on the road in the future and you need an external pressure regulator hit me up....I've got 7 of them.....lol!

Some good news on the 'selling stuff' front.....sold the Sea Eagle SE-330 today (Thursday), so I only have the Cannondale Tandem left to sell.  I listed the three items we were trying to sell on Facebook Marketplace, and the Inland Empire Craigslist, and so far Facebook Marketplace has been responsible for the two sales....pretty impressive!

I got a message from our oldest daughter, Meredith, early in the day that she and Manny (a friend of my kids since the 80's) wanted to go out for a couple of brews, so we met them at Hamilton Family Brewery in Rancho Cucamonga at 6 pm......

.....Manny like many of our kids' friends hung out at our home a lot in the 80's and 90's, and became like one of our kids.  Whenever we are in town he makes a point of getting together with us.....I'm really proud of the man he has become.  We drank our brews alfresco, and picked up a few orders of sliders from a vendor next to Hamilton Family Brewing as they only serve beer....no food.  The sliders were amazing, as were the numerous brews we sampled.....thank you Manny for a memorable evening, and we enjoyed meeting Madison....she's quite a lady!

We didn't get home until after 9 pm, and after all that beer, slept like babies.....thanks for stopping by!

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