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    For Sale  American Tonneau HARD tri-fold tonneau for Toyota Tacoma LONG BED

    This is the Tri-Fold Hard cover by American Tonneau. It secures your valuables better than the soft covers. Easy no drill installation. It can easily be taken out temporarily if you don't want it on there. This one is only for the 3rd generation (2016-2019) Toyota Tacoma with the long bed...
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    Comparing Rooftop tent vs. OzTent

    I was a little uneasy about the length too but most vehicles, except maybe a wrangler, will have room to actually put it inside the vehicle if you want to secure it and lock it up if you need to. That was something I always worried about with the RTT when I parked in some deserted parking lot...
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    Comparing Rooftop tent vs. OzTent

    Some of you may know I had a Mombasa RTT that I recently sold and picked up an OzTent. I really thought I'd be a rooftop tenter forever but I'm trading in my pickup for something else and which means kayaks have to go on the roof. This isn't a long term review by any stretch, just my initial...
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    Portable ac

    I have not used one of those portables while camping but I have and do regularly use one while not camping and I'm very happy with it. You do need a place to slip the exhaust hose though. You can probably just zip it closed in a doorway. Before I got my rtt I had a truck camper and I used a...
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    Best fridge / freezer poll - post reasons why you picked

    Essentially what you're doing is forcing the thermo readout to display a different value. So if the actual temp is warmer, say 45, and the display reads 40, you move the setting up to show a higher temperature. It looks like there's four settings above and below where it's at ranging from 2 to 8...
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    Best fridge / freezer poll - post reasons why you picked

    If anyone wants to adjust their ARB's thermostat, press and hold the + & - buttons at the same time until "ALS" shows up then use those keys to move the setting up and down. Then just leave it and it will exit and save on its own.
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    Best fridge / freezer poll - post reasons why you picked

    You took literally every word out of my mouth. As someone else mentioned, you can calibrate it and I did but you can only adjust it about 3 degrees. I have the small ARB and set it at 34, which seems to be the magic number to get it to around 39/40 in the box after maximum calibration, which is...
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    Mombasa Rooftop Tent (RTT) Long term review ... east coast

    It's been a couple years since I wrote this review. The replacement cover also failed. I tried using FlexSeal to seal up, not only the holes but also the seams and the points where the previous cover ripped. That was an epic failure. It didn't cure or bond properly and the stuff rubbed off the...
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    Thermo electric coolers: Worth it?

    This is apparently a myth. There is an Usa in Japan however but I suspect if the fridge was made in Japan, it would be a major selling point to label it as such. No Usa in China though. There are several Chinas in the US.
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    FORUM CLOSING - time to upgrade!

    It just goes to show Newer Does Not Always Mean Better.
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    dual band VHF/HAM antenna recomendations

    Because they don't want to drill holes. Unfortunately drilling holes is the way to get decent performance out of a mobile antenna, even a really good antenna like the larsen 2/70. Side mounting.... roof racks.... You might as well stick with a rubber ducky. To the OP, there's a number of...
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    Pics of LC 100 with a RTT

    ^^^^ I've had to turn around on more than one occasion due to low hanging trees that I couldn't clear with the RTT. A hard shell cover that just flips open by hinges would make it the perfect tent. Chainsaws can fix the low hanging trees.
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    Rooftop Tent Cover Repair

    I got a can of Flex Seal ("It's like the Hoover Dam, in a can!") Although I have not sprayed it on yet on account if it being too cold where the RTT is dry docked.
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    Yaesu 8900 extended transmit mod

    Crush the diode?! The right way to remove those is to unsolder them, not pry them off the board with pliers.
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    Offroad navigation/trail recording/etc.

    Paper maps & MVUMs For work purposes I use a handheld GPS on the dash connected to a laptop using mapping software but it doesn't work good under tree canopy. It cuts out a lot.
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