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Awe, come on Ken.

Hello Ken, are you an engineer? I’m not but, I’m a chassis builder. I part time build Drag racing cars, also I’m an aerospace welder for 15 yrs and I’ve been welding for 35 yrs as well. It’s a pretty good frame. But I think a lot of the welds could be better and, a lot of the brackets need to have doubler plates on them but, again they are a custom RV company sky is the limit. I’m not trying to be that guy.

It definitely needs a wash. I shot this quick video for someone interested in it. It will get washed a little later.

There is no real maintenance required. If you break a sheer bolt you can access that. You can also access the gears if you break a tooth. Both may require removing a panel under the rig. I've done both on my personal rigs with no issue. But in general there is little reason to do that in normal situations.

This truck is 30' long, bumper to bumper. Yet maneuvers better than a CC dually because of the wheel cut and location of the hitch. It enables backing into spots that the CC dually would have far more of a problem with.

@@JackMayer Thanks for the information. I figured that it would have a better turning radius because the F350 turn radius is horrible. Even the F450 is much better.

Jesus. Nobody asked

I thought the same thing. BTW, what’s a “fish plate “.

@@edgewood2441 A fish plate is a flat plate of steel that is as thick or thicker than the frames thickness. Twice as long as the frame is wide. If your frame is 10 inches wide between the upper and lower flanges than the fish plate has to be 20 inch by 10 inch.

@@peteengard9966 Thank you for the info and your time. Appreciated.

If you want to pay for the heavier frame go for it. It’s all about the money. You get what you pay for.

Residual value has always been above average, compared to other RVs. At least in our experience. But it is still not an "investment", but a depreciating asset - and should be viewed as such.

It is a custom unit, so it would depend on what YOU wanted in it. But on a Majestic figure on an average of about $5700/ft for most people. It can be done for less, but not much less. A Summit would be less than that, of course. A Summit compares well (price wise) with a Luxe or a DRV. A Majestic does not really have any comparison to a production unit - it would only be compared to a Spacecraft 5th wheel. (not the semi).

Not fine enough control over heat. A 240volt unit would improve on that, though.

@@JackMayer Ahh, ok. My home has an Induction(240v) and it's awesome. Has 20 steps in temp I think. When will you do the outside and storage areas. Can't wait to see what you did there!

Interesting that it is a little shaky in sections....I took a look at the original video and it is not shaky like that. Not sure what causes it but I might reprocess it and repost it. But probably not - I'm not trying to be a film maker....but I will look more into it for future videos.

Ditto!

No I have not shot the "completed" video yet. But I'll do that in the next week or so. Was originally waiting for the furniture to come in and some punch list items, but we are far beyond that now.

@@JackMayer Admiring minds want to know!

@@lesgarten The electrical upgrades are gong to be totally different than what I indicated in the video. I'll use all Victron components - Multiplus inverters running split phase 240v. Fed by a 48 volt battery system with three (minimum) Trophy server rack battery packs (over 15 KWH of power). This will allow me to run my mini-split off of the battery bank. Roof will be covered with solar panels - probably the REC's.

@@rvhlifestyles-customhdts3166 I was looking at the Victron and wondered why you weren't using that. So that makes me feel better. You see it a lot on large Yachts, they must be doing something right.

@@rvhlifestyles-customhdts3166 Thanx for keying me in about the RECs. You gonna build your own battery packs?

Yes I wanted to know also. I was thinking around around 11k

There is a central control panel on this model that controls the levelers. Each leveler has its own pump and resevoir. They also make other versions that have a central fluid resevoir. We have always had the four point system (for the last 20 years), and prefer it to other offerings.

Definitely something to be said about only needing 4 jacks when all of these other frames need to have 6.

Nothing is required except to keep them clean.