This effect is exploited by the manufacturers of inexpensive tents. Try this simple exercise: go to Walmart and buy a cheap Chinese-made tent. Remove it from its box or stuff sack. Then attempt to fit it back in. It doesn't go, does it? It will have seeming expanded by at least 20%. But that's an illusion: the tent will be the same size, the Universe will have shrunk around it. By the same token, whenever the refrigerator door is opened (Mellow Yellow has a Norcold, but the concept applied to the original Dometic*) various foodstuffs which have been neatly stacked atop each other will tumble out. Getting them back in so the door can be closed requires careful maneuvering and some force -- I use a toilet plunger. *Anyone want this 182R? It works fine, I just wanted more cooling power for hot days above 90F so put in the Norcold which begat the larger aux battery which begat the solar panels which begat the charge controller. All the bits and pieces are with the Dometic. You'll have to come by and pick it up (Carlsbad, CA). Make an offer. P-mail me because gerry > gmail is clumpy. -- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano KG6RCR
Loren Busch typed: > RE: Quantum Westies are difficult. > I noticed that phenomenon just this week when I did my annual "Take > everything out, review the need and repack" exercise. There has to be > an N dimensional Space Warp in the storage spaces in the Starwagen else > there is no way I could have that amount of 'Stuff' inside one Westfalia > and still find room for me. |
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