[A/S] Re: New Airstreamer!

["Richard P. Kenan" <as5368@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I saw a gadget at an RV store that you put on the back of your 
vehicle
> that had a convex mirror so you could see the hitch ball.  That 
might work.

I have one of those that fits with a magnet onto the tongue jack, but 
have had very mixed results trying to use it.

I met a guy at ToG who had a GM Suburban with a lift gate and a 
Hensley.  He had put together a neat device - a mirror assembly that 
on the lift window, combined with about 8' (two 4' lengths that fit 
one inside the other) of 1" white plastic pipe that he laid on the 
ground in line with the hitch.  Now, he can see both the Hensley bar 
and the pipe, and can align the bar as he backs up.  Real neat.
 
> Now that I have a Hensley, I plan on using a tall dowel with a flat
> magnet on one end....stick that on the "receiver" part of the 
Hensley, > and aim for that.  Then get out one time and do the 
alignment thing.

That seems like it would work, too.  My Suburban has the barn doors; 
so the mirror thing probably won't work.  Thanks for the info.

- Dick
(5368)