Known by a few names, drop jacks, corner steadies, drop legs, whatever they’re called sometimes they just aren’t quite long enough, or when they are winding them out to their full extension is a painfully long process.   32mm x 3mm square aluminium section slides very neatly inside Alko drop legs.   The extension of the leg is a threaded rod thats in the centre of the drop leg, the aluminium section slides in around the thread rod and doesn’t interfere with the usual leg function at all.   The choice of aluminium over steel is that standard steel section sizes don’t fit neatly inside each other leaving a lot of rattle room.…

One of the banes of every caravan’er’s existence at one point or another is the slow or lack of adequate drainage from the vans sink and shower etc via the vans grey water sullage/waste outlet and connected pipe.   At the risk of being Capt Obvious a smooth, unrestricted and a continuously descending flow path is paramount.   Jaycos for example seem to excel at getting each of these, if not all of these wrong and have a history of Coco Pops and pasta noodles put down the sink somehow popping up in the shower. There are a few simple and quick fixes to help with flow, along with some more elaborate…

Some smart cookie with some serious common sense came up with the very cool idea of stringing stainless steel wire rope between awning arms, to create a permanently deployed clothes line.   We have followed suit and have found it pretty damned handy.   We’ve also added a personal touch to make it a little better for us. These clothes lines are available commercially, but they are incredibly cheap and easy to make from scratch, particularly if you want 2 of them. Probably the only key point to remember whether you buy a kit and make it up yourself, is not to over tighten the turnbuckles.   You’ll only do this once, because…