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03-01-2018, 06:48 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: boise, Idaho
Trailer: 2018 19'
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Regrets
I love my 17b but I wish I had no range hood. Bump head, basically useless especially if max fan on & kitchen window open. Build sheet omitted range hood but during build Tammy called & said mistake was made, range hood installed. Offered rebuild but stupidly decided not to do this. In hindsight should have had the rebuild. Every time I bump into that thing I regret my decision. Just a bumpy heads up after many miles in Pearl. Still love her though. Just completed a 3 week trip thru Alabama hills, mojave preserve, Joshua tree, desert hot springs, Anza borrego, cathedral gorge, jackpot$$, boise.
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03-01-2018, 07:03 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Burlington Twp., New Jersey
Trailer: 2010 Escape 19
Posts: 7,146
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How about removing the range hood? It’s held up with 4 bolts. Put some foam and gorilla tape in the big hole as a filler piece and do a nice adhesive backsplash like some of us have done. Wire up a light to the range hood power. Won’t even know it ever had a range hood except for 4 small holes in the underside of the cabinet.
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03-01-2018, 07:43 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Kelowna, British Columbia
Trailer: 2018 Escape 19
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You could replace the hood fan with cookie sheet upside down and the width of the cabinet...or your choice. This would cover any holes on the underside of the cabinet and be easy to clean. You could use a furnace floor hot air register grill to cover the hole to the outside. You could even cut the back off at a thickness to house a couple of muffin fans.
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03-01-2018, 08:06 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: North Vancouver, British Columbia
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Once again, I don't get it. Neither of us have bumped our heads on the range hood. We mostly cook outside, but we do use the stove to boil water for coffee and for tea ( not me ).
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03-01-2018, 08:47 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Calgary, Alberta
Trailer: 2017 Escape 5.0 TA
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Neither of us has hit our heads since 2009. What are we doing different I wonder?
Folks are free to do as they like, but I would never give up the range hood. It exhausts too much greasy crud for me to be willing to use the ceiling fan.
I used the Ventline which I like better than the Heng, which Escape installs. The SAM-1 replacement fan/light unit installed in it real easy, and is a pleasure to use.
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03-01-2018, 09:30 PM
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Site Team
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: Canyon Lake, Texas
Trailer: 2015 19 "Past Tents", 2021 F150 Lariat 2.7L EB
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My wife hit her head once on the corner of the range hood so I installed some foam bumpers. Haven't hit it since. As for the fan, like Jim I highly recommend retrofitting the noisy and ineffective tin box fan with the SAM-1 Fan and light assembly from Fabulous Operating Products. Now the range hood actually works, and is almost silent.
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03-01-2018, 09:33 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rbryan4
Now the range hood actually works.
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The Ventline has nice rounded corners.
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03-01-2018, 09:37 PM
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Site Team
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: Canyon Lake, Texas
Trailer: 2015 19 "Past Tents", 2021 F150 Lariat 2.7L EB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim Bennett
The Ventline has nice rounded corners.
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That looks nice Jim. More modern than the Hengs.
By the way, I see the cutting board insert for your stove has the same little burn marks as mine from the hot metal tabs...lol.
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03-01-2018, 09:44 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: North Van., British Columbia
Trailer: 2014 Escape 19, sold; 2019 Escape 21, Sept. 2019
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Quote:
Originally Posted by gbaglo
Once again, I don't get it. Neither of us have bumped our heads on the range hood.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim Bennett
Neither of us has hit our heads since 2009. What are we doing different I wonder?
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Us neither, I guess that makes us all non-bumpy heads.
Ron
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03-01-2018, 09:49 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ron in BC
Us neither, I guess that makes us all non-bumpy heads.
Ron
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And Lordy knows I hit my hairless head a lot too.
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2015 Ford F150 Lariat 3.5L EcoBoost
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03-01-2018, 10:04 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Benton County, Iowa
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A man’s place
I never hit my head on the range hood. Probably because I am relegated to being either outside or at the table and not anywhere around the stove. My knees, however, have perpetual bruises in the camping season from stingeritis. “Can’t fix stupid” was an apologetic
consolation to my Boy Scouts. Glad they don’t see me each summer.
Iowa Dave
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03-01-2018, 10:08 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Twice on this current trip I have gouged a chunk of skin off the top of my head on the trailer door. Pretty sure I am smarter now!
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03-01-2018, 11:02 PM
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Site Team
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: Canyon Lake, Texas
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim Bennett
Twice on this current trip I have gouged a chunk of skin off the top of my head on the trailer door. Pretty sure I am smarter now!
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Consider it a beauty mark. Not that us baldies aren't pretty enough already. [emoji23]
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03-01-2018, 11:14 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: O town, British Columbia
Trailer: 2014 Escape 21 "Lightning"
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Yep, I hit mine until I remember that I have to avoid it.
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03-02-2018, 04:15 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: Port Townsend, Washington
Trailer: 2010 17B “MATT”, then 2017 19 “Lilly”
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We also would not do without the range hood. In both our former and current Escape we generally use it for two meals per day, and it conveniently and directly expels both humidity and contaminants from our cooking. And no one in our family has ever struck their head upon it, or I suppose we might feel otherwise about it.
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03-02-2018, 11:19 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: St. Thomas not BVI., Ontario
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Iowa Dave
I never hit my head on the range hood. Probably because I am relegated to being either outside or at the table and not anywhere around the stove. My knees, however, have perpetual bruises in the camping season from stingeritis. “Can’t fix stupid” was an apologetic
consolation to my Boy Scouts. Glad they don’t see me each summer.
Iowa Dave
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Hi: Iowa Dave... 45 yrs. with my head in a dirty oven and I've yet to crack my cranium!!! I also know that you must remove the inner racks from a self clean job or they'll lose their luster!!! Now in the camper the range hood is another matter altogether. We keep ours well coated with magnets from "Wherever". One even found its way into the banana cream pie one night!!!Alf
escape artist N.S. of Lake Erie
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03-02-2018, 11:56 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2017
Posts: 343
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I totally understand your hatred of those sharp corners on the vent. I also removed our giant vent in our little 17' Casita. One of the best mods I've done. Little House Customs even has a "VENT HOOD REMOVAL KIT" for doing so, which includes the trim and a nice light fixture to put in the giant space the vent used to be. I loved removing it. No more bloody forehead!
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03-02-2018, 12:22 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Edmonton, Alberta
Trailer: 2013 19' & 2013 15B
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Problems with head banging on the exhaust fan seem to be a short persons issue. My head banging issues are a little higher up. If I removed all items from my Escape that I regularly bump my head on, I would be camping in a trailer without a roof or A/C.
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03-02-2018, 01:49 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Missoula, Montana
Trailer: Escape 19, 2018: Last Best Escape
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I too am among the head bumper-crowd. Did it a few too many times in our 17', so much so that we left out the range vent in our first 19'. Here's a link to a replacement done by a very crafty Casita owner. Always had the intention of building this but never got around to it.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rfpd30...7626742329244/
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03-02-2018, 03:03 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Olympia wa, Washington
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I'm short but i haven't hit my head on it yet= i will try to next time i camp!
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