June 13, 2012

View of the day-Mike from Don’s Electric in Great Bend…to the rescue!

Today was the last day for Great Bend as Al went out to settle up with Ken and Kevin and Marilyn got the camper ready for transport.  Marilyn has been trying to get the icemaker working in the fridge and decided to call and see if there was anything she could get done on warranty…there is still another year left on it.

Well, they gave another number of an authorized dealer in Hays this time, so Marilyn called him.  No time right now and not for the next month, his son was away and he was by himself…and he wouldn’t do it on warranty anyway.  So much for that. 

Marilyn decided to just go for it with the new one…after all, she has thrown away $140 on worse things.  But it’s the principal of the warranty…they won’t reimburse us for the part and it has to be done by someone authorized and then they get reimbursed.  If they have the time or want to wait for their cash.

We went out for lunch…kind of the last meal at the China Buffet, then got the camper hooked up to the Dodge.  We didn’t have 50 amp here, so we had to use a 50 to 30 amp adapter.  When Al tried to unhook the adapter from the cord, he had quite the time of it…they would not let go.  After much prying and swearing, we got it apart, but one  of the blades was pretty much pulled out of the molded head on the camper cord.  We needed help.

We stopped at Sunflower Electric near the campground to see if they could help, but they were just wholesalers, but they did give us a few names to call.  The guy from LaCrosse could help us out next week…even with Marilyn sugar-coating the problem, he still wouldn’t move the date up.  Then we called Don’s Electric…wow…he called his son, Mike, who was a couple blocks away and he came right over. Talk about service.  When he got it done, we went to pay him and he told us he had no invoice book and wasn’t sure about the charge, so…”just call when you come back through town next week and we’ll have it figured out”.  Nice guy.

We left the parking lot where we were parked and headed for LaCrosse, where we had a site waiting for us…50 amp this time.  Marilyn worked on getting the camper set up, dish aimed, then bit the bullet and swapped out the icemaker valve.  SUCCESS!!  The icemaker is kicking out the ice like crazy…what a relief.

After everything was put back together, it was time to go for supper.  We had been told about Boondocks, a restaurant in McCracken, just 16 miles away and we were up for a new favourite place to have steaks…so that is where we went...and we weren't disappointed.  It was excellent.

Done for the day and still making ice...