Today we said our goodbyes to the all the friends we’ve made at the Ahavas Torah Center in Las Vegas. We’ve spent a little over two weeks with the congregation, and we’ve had the pleasure of getting to know a lot of great people from this new and growing community. See you again soon!
After hitching up, we drove the mile and change to my parents house to say our goodbyes to them as well. Here we are in front of their house:
We then drove to the western edge of Las Vegas where Grandma DiAnn and her husband Barry live. We will be parked here curbside for a day or two.
Like the early pioneers on the Oregon Trail, it was time for us to dump our piano off the back of the wagon, so to speak. We managed to leave 12 boxes of stuff behind with my parents. We also left our 8” dobsonian strutted telescope behind, which makes me sad, but we haven’t used it yet and we should have a good number of opportunities to visit star parties this year. The three foreground stacks are ours, as is the telescope base leaning against the boxes:
The upshot of leaving all this behind is we were able to get rid of the shelving I built into the bedroom back in June. The bedroom now feels much bigger and there’s a lot more light now that both windows are unobstructed.
Today’s highlight was installing a tri-fuel kit for the generator that I had purchased before we left home. By converting a generator to run on propane as well as gasoline, we will be able to run the generator much longer since the RV has 10 gallons worth of propane on board, whereas the generator’s built-in tank only holds a little over a gallon of gasoline.
Another advantage is that once we get home, I can bring out a natural gas connector and plug it into the generator so that during a power failure we don’t have to keep filling the generator.
The tri-fuel kit works by installing a fitting between the air filter and the air intake on the carburetor. A hose runs from this fitting to the propane carburetor which is installed on the outside of the generator. The propane carburetor regulates the amount of propane that is mixed with air and injected directly into the gas carburetor.
Here’s a photo of the generator after I’ve installed the kit. It’s using a quick release to the RV’s propane tanks. The circular object on the outside of the generator is the propane carburetor. The red hose at the bottom of the propane carburetor is how the propane gets into the gasoline carburetor in the generator. I had to drill a hole through the case to route the hose:
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