End of the Car boot Season

The end of the car boot season is next week we had far to many cancellations over the last two months due to bad weather so selling was very poor and this will reflect on next years work.

I have no intentions of buying any more cigar box guitar parts at all for next year i have 6 neck blanks along with fretboards and 3  complete necks that I have already made up along with a dozen boxes and quite a lot of hardware so might make these up plus the unsold one from this year.

I know car boots are not really the best place to sell new higher priced goods but  for advertising with over 600 plus, people walking past on the average Sunday it pays to be there So with 7 of my own  cigar box guitars sold plus 5 other guitars that i picked up at the boot sale that i made good all was not lost.

However I was disappointed with the overall response and as a result will not be doing just that one car boot next year  Depending which part of the country i am in I will try to do a few different venues

Fitted A Gas Shower.

Have been doing a few more jobs on my motorhome I fitted a calor gas shower and I changed the submersible water pump which is in a 80ltr tank fitted to the underside of the floor.
having read the owners manual to check where the feed pipes and the pump are situated, with spanners at the ready and the van safely up on blocks we were ready to go.I asked (Alan that's the lad out of the caravan that i wrote about the other week) to help me to be honest Alan did most of the work we got the tank down and dragged it from under the van.
The tank and placement of the feed pipes and pump were nothing like in the hand book could of been a replacement tank so I fitted the new pump checked everything then replaced the tank.
While taking the tank off we had to cut one of the metal holding brackets which meant making a replacement.
Everything fitted back into place turned the taps on inside all was working well (or so i thought )
after a few hours I tried the taps only to find no water coming out.
OK i will have a look in the morning while laying in bed I went over the way we refitted the pump and tank I remember saying to Alan when I fitted the water pump that it seemed to be high in the tank
for a submersible pump.
In the morning I still no water coming out of the taps so back up the the layby where Alan and char were staying I had convinced myself that the water pump had been fitted on the inlet pipe and not on the outlet.
Sorry but it got to come off again taking it off the second time was a hell of a lot easier than the first time
dragging the tank out from under the van we checked to find everything was correct and in the right place.
Only a ten minute job putting the tank back in place refitted the pipe work  filled up with 80ltrs of fresh water turned the pump on opened the taps and bingo all was working.
One last check run the shower that worked fine I can now run the shower off the gas using the shower unit or I can run the vans shower which is heated from the blown air heating system through the shower unit the big difference here is the water temp from the shower unit is 28Deg and from the vans heating unit is 40 or 60degs.