Locks

Anyone put a lock on their docking station?

The door where you have water hookup and your waste tank handles.

Our cat came with locks on all the tank handle doors.But not the LP tank doors,go figure . To me they are a pain in the butt.

Docking station doors why not just remove the locks from the little locker doors where your waste valves are, straight swap
.I like to think that locks were not put on gas bottle locker due to the safety aspect. If you have a gas problem in your Cat the last thing you need to be doing is looking for the keys. Also the fire brigade can just turn the thumb locks and open the door. I have stickers on my gas locker doors indicating there is gas on board.
As to the

okdrifter wrote:Anyone put a lock on their docking station?

I really see no reason for it but then again, I've seen people run a cable through their grills, chairs and anything thats not bolted down.

I have a little more faith in my fellow campers than that.

I do not have that door on our RV

I'd like to have that kind of faith too MountainMan,but I've already lost two bikes and a tackle box.

Its usually not your fellow campers..... Lake side CG's have invaders from the water that come up and raid, land locked CG's have raiders from the side streets.... Have'nt seen it myself but have talked to people that have experienced it first hand. Landing by water seemed to be the most common on big lakes.

I replaced the baggage door locks with the totally tubular cam locks. They don't use the special 751 universal key. I guess you could rip them open, but that removed the element of surprise.

I agree wholeheartedly Phillip.I would not be afraid to say that someone indigenous to the area had something to do with it.

I was concerned about someone pulling then closing the black tank valve providing a surprise.

In 38 seasons of camping I have never had anything stolen from a campsite. I camp almost exlusively in state parks, Corps of engineer camgrounds and the like. I avoid private campgrounds like the plague (not because I think they are thief ridden but because they are not the kind of place I like). 30 of those years were in a tent, 5 in a pop up and this is the third in our 'Cat. I did have the problem okdrifter wrote about once but I have installed a fix to prevent that.

What was the fix?

okdrifter,
I connected a pvc t to the handle on the black tank valve (you cut a slot and use strapping to hold it in place), glued the t to a pvc pipe shich extends to the front of the camper through a hanger and into a handle made of other pvc parts. There is a hole drilled through the pipe just in from behind the hanger which accepts a padlock. This prevents the handle from being pulled forward (open). I think someone posted this fix on here but I don't remember where. Right now I don't have the energy to go looking. Maybe later.

okdrifter,
All I needed was to eat some food! Here is the link to the original post by jamesc47 who deserves the credit.

Glen thanks for the link. Mine is behind a door so I'll put key locks on that. Might slow anyone down wanting to play games.

If your handles are like mine okdrifter, the locks won't slow them down much.All you have to do is reach under the door and pull the handle.That's why I really think those locks are kind of silly.

In my macerator install I have put another valve onto the end of the existing pipe work, If some one opens the valve nothing will come out due to the fact that my system is now double valved. They would have to reach up under the side body work to open the fist valve, then the second valve, But would they bother
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