Second time around.....

7:42 am - Saturday - October 25th - Newell House, Wittmann, AZ - 59° F, humidity 32%, wind 5 mph out of the east by northeast.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 84° F.  On this date in 2017 TLE and I had just arrived at Lone Rock on Lake Powell....

.....just over the Arizona border into Southern Utah....about 8 miles from Page, AZ.  One of our all time boondocking places....we've boondocked there 4, or 5 times over the years.

About a month ago the dryer portion of the Splendide combo washer/dryer stopped drying.  We suspected it was the same issue we dealt with 3 years ago to the month.  There is what I call a 'snorkel' made of formed soft rubber that receives the hot, moist air being vented from the washer drum, sending it upwards about 10" where the air is vented out of the machine.  This 'snorkel' is a bad design as when the hot, most, lint laden air reaches the first right angle bend at the bottom of the 'snorkel' the lint tends to build up there, and every 2-3 years one must clean out the lint.  I wrote about the process here back on October 15th, 2022.  Now, here we are, just over 3 years later and I'm having to do it again.

Removing the Splendide washer/dryer combo out of its cubbyhole is not for the faint of heart.  Beginning to end it takes about 3-4 hours to remove all of the pantry items from the two shelves above the washer, remove the selves, remove the double doors to the pantry, then begin to 'snake' the Splendide out of the cabinet, finally clearing the lint build up from the 'snorkel', then reversing the entire process.  The actual removing of the lint does not take long....

.....once the airflow through the 'snorkel' becomes this constricted, the dryer will just shut off, and all of the lights on the control panel start flashing as if you have won a jackpot on a slot machine in a casino.

We began the aforementioned 'process' around 9 am, and didn't finish until after 12 pm.  By that time I was exhausted from wrestling the Splendide out, and then back into the cubbyhole, which is very, very tight.....

.....we bought this Splendide brand new in July of 2020 at the Camping World in Spearfish, SD during the Wuhan Flu, and with the exception of these two clogged lint issues, it has run flawlessly.

Once I put all my tools away, and TLE put everything away, we spent the rest of the day reading, and relaxing.  It got up to 82° F around 3 pm, which is not very hot, but we did run the A/C for a few hours nonetheless.  I still need to figure out what is going on with my trailer lights, and I need to pressure wash the large, rear facing Newell radiator before we get back on the road next week, but otherwise we are in good shape.

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