Wax Job

A fellow Pogger suggested it wasn't necessary to wax since we had many layers of clear coat on the paint. i feel better doing it anyway. bluevost coated the top of his coach with a sealer and heat repeller coating. It beats me why you would wax and not wipe off the dry residue. it would just collect dirt and look worse.
I like the idea of Jeff using a floor waxer ontop of his roof. That would be a picture! You know , they have quite a kick when starting them.

Yeah I see what you mean about the unpolished wax making more build up. More "stick". No good. Regarding the floor polisher I'm remembering seeing really dinky low end "home owner" ones for Mom to use in the kitchen. One like this would be really light and easy to handle and get up an down the roof. It would never hold up like a commercial unit but I was thinking that for the amount of times you might use it it would do the job and last at least .......I don't know......a dozen times or so. Pretty small area anyway. I know I remember seeing cheapo light weight models with two smaller counter rotating brushes but you would need bonnets on them and not brushes. I grew up with my Dad managing Holiday Inn's. I'd work the heavy commercial models from time to time on the lobby floor and Gary is right about the kick. It takes some practice and finesse to be able to "steer" those. They didn't have the idea around back then but now they have Red Neck races with floor scrubbers with the yahoo's sitting on the center of the lower unit and holding the rod to guide themselves down a short track (limited by the length of the extension cord). Thank God I didn't see that when I was a kid because I would have been like a bull in a china store and wrecked the lobby.

Jeff,

Have you considered writing a book or at least an article for the FMCA magazine outlining your thoughts on topics ranging from remote generators, to a vegetable oil external fuel tank to a floor polisher for the roof?

There is nobody here on this forum that has the creativity you possess and (not kidding here) while some ideas may be wild and off the charts such as camping in Manhattan, you are going to hit upon the next hula hoop or pet rock and will be able to add to your current fleet of coaches.

You aren't into the squeezings again are you?

Jeff,

You may be on to something. If we could take a Swiffer and modify it to shoot out a heavy liquid wax (such as Meguiars) and then use another one with a microfiber towel attached (for removing the wax) , we could get 90% of the roof without bending over.

Jon- Thanks for getting my day off to a good start and laugh at myself. True that I write enough and actually enjoy it enough that I have often thought that writing would be a FUN profession for me. Something that I would enjoy. I need to find a topic to break into that could pay. Lloyd and Pam are writers. I should ask them for advice. The articles for FMCA could be practice I guess but, as you say, the topics are a bit hair brained. The problem is I suffer from an over active brain and this makes relaxing difficult for me. When I'm writing it does relax me. Evidenced from my lengthy and mostly wearisome to read postings.

Funny you mention about Pet Rocks. I sold those in the lobby of the Holiday Inn my dad managed for a period until I got bored with it. There was this rock garden outside the hotel. I threw some of this rocks down on the pavement and they bused open and were like crystalized inside. I put a card table, displayed the Pet Rocks and I'm sure people mostly bought them to encourage me. I never did the lemonade stand. I already knew that idea worked. I always was asking the question "Will MY new idea work ?" Once I proved it would work which meant having wound up with $20 in my pocket as a 10 year old with the rocks, I moved on to the next hair brained thing. I like manufacturing.

For me, the portable generator is a home run but there's no profit to made there. The coil went out on my transfer switch and waiting for the part. Someone posted "Total Generator Failure" not long ago and spent top dollar getting themselves a back up. Your not going to believe this but right now as I'm writing from the bus, I have a 4,000 watt contractor Generac, a 6600 watt quiet Yamaha, a 3000 watt quiet Honda and a 2000 watt quiet Honda. I'll resist the urge to go into where I store them all and why I THINK I need them all but the short answer is I have a generator compulsion. When I was young I was always getting spanked for playing with matches. I guess energy is my fixation (ie, the veg oil powered bus). I just uploaded one of many videos I took in NYC on this last trip over the summer on my Facebook page if anyone wants to see it. Shows parking right next to The Four Seasons across from Central Park. One of the more entertaining ones.

Start out with a How-To on inner city camping and go from there. I'm telling you there isn't anyone here that can match your ideas. The folks at the FMCA magazine may be a little uptight about publishing an article however that encourages risking parking tickets as a cheap alternative to spending big bucks on nearby campgrounds.

I think on some things you could write about you would have to put some disclaimers at the front of the story. I can just picture somebody taking a header off the roof of a coach while hanging onto a floor polisher.

I think that Bayley writting for FMCA magazine would be great! What better test could there be than his posting on POG about camping in NYC!

He had us all in stitches for days on end! I know some of the older members of POG recall getting on line every night just to see what Bayley was going to come out with next! The FMCA readers will not be any different than the POG readers; we were all sitting on our computers hitting the new post button waiting to see what Bayley would say next. It was better than watching 90210 or Everybody Loves Raymond.

I'll bet we had 25 new members join POG because they heard about Bayley's antics online.

I really miss those days when everyone would tease Lew about his computer savy, Jon about being anal, and so many others - those were the days!

Tuga- Are you serious? I've always thought members would be glad to see me booted off here. I'm sitting on my NYC videos I made specific for POG and never posted them thinking no one really was interested. Now you saying that topic is worthy. That there Was this buzz and interest in my post? Laughing with me or at me? For every story I've told ther are 10 others I omit. Like the time I wiggled my way to back stage parking at the George Straight show,parked right next to their bus and partied with the band after thebshow all night long on my bus until the generator failed. ( pre back up gen days) Well then other 2 buses had packed and gone leaving a 50'amp service calling my name in this undeground garage. I figured the casino would just see my bus there in the morning (which was coming up fast) and assume we were with Ricky Martin who was the next act that day. Didn't work out like I hoped. I woke to them beating on the coach and about a dozen security asking me who then hell I was ? The normally well functioning bull shit machine was not prepared and I got booted out of there and mean HARD. They said the police were on the way. So I'm outside in my underwear disconnected the power and in drive out in my underwear. Followed the head of security up to ground level parking where he pleaded with me to tell him how i didi it? How did I do it ? I came to pafor normal for the show and your parking attendants waived me to the underground parking where they raised the gate. I smiled and drove in and parked. Made a cocktail and walked by the last security guard who looked thirst so I went back to the bus and made him a drink. Then I watched the show and invited the band to the bus. They were thirst too. When I told the band what happened theynfell all mover laughing. Especially the part where i spilled a full drink on Straights wife. White blouse and cranberry. That was ugly.

Boot you out of POG??????? You got to be kidding! Stories like the one above are unmatched. The rest of us post mamby-pamby stuff about our boring everyday lives and then you come along and blow us out of the water with your wild ideas and wilder stories.

If FMCA would be able to lighten up and see the humor in letting you regale its readers with "Tales from Jeff" you could end up with a monthly column.

BTW it is not so far fetched about getting to park with the band. We parked next to Wayne Newton's crew at Melody Fair up in Tonawanda NY.
we didn't party with them, but we spent time talking to them and hanging with them before the show. The security people challenged us but we said we were with the band and they never bothered us again.

Jeff,

We love you man! Keep telling those tales - we love reading them.

Start a new thread for your stories so we don't get yelled at by the thread police.

AND COME TO A RALLY - WE ALL WANT TO MEET YOU!