The Build
Build Day 1 – Welding, Under-body paint, Basement wiring and Generator
Here’s the Day 1 highlights reel… Lots of welding, painting and wiring.. 🙂 And a sneak peek at the shower!
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Here’s the Day 1 highlights reel… Lots of welding, painting and wiring.. 🙂 And a sneak peek at the shower!
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Day 0 (yesterday, 2015-June-22) – A partial day of prepping the chassis. Video uploaded includes a simple walk-around of the chassis, the move of the chassis into the weld prep area and the engine running… Ah, the engine running.. 🙂
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That’s right… We pulled in on Saturday and got lucky site number 13! Lots of great people here at the Tiffin Allegro Campground, always happy to share their experiences. Our coach begins the build process tomorrow in welding. Yeah! At this time, the expected delivery to the dealer is July Read more…
It’s very discouraging that there are many people wishing others a ‘Happy’ Memorial Day. I could understand somewhat if these were all generated from outside the US, but even in America, the vast majority of citizens don’t understand the holiday. Most think it’s just another day for firing up the Read more…
As we posted earlier, we spent some time in Red Bay Alabama touring the Tiffin Motorhomes facilities and talking with various people there. Everyone we met was extremely helpful and courteous even though we were no doubt interrupting their routine.
We were lucky enough that the timing of our visit happened to coincide with the production of a new 2016 Allegro Bus 45OP, in a new interior color. Further, we got to see all the new interior and exterior color schemes as well as the new exterior graphics design. Lots of great changes coming!
With all this new knowledge, we were able to quickly decide what we wanted, get a final price approximation (final 2016 pricing is not yet available) and … drum roll …
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Another great night here in Benson, AZ… I managed to capture some usable data for the Flame Nebula and the Whirlpool Galaxy. The bright glow at the bottom of the Flame Nebula shot is Alnitak, the left most star from our perspective of Orion’s belt in the Orion Constellation. In Read more…