Date:         Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:12:32 -0700
Reply-To:     Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: storage pocket IN sliding door...was Re: Magazine racks?
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We've entered that awkward stage in the weather patterns around here
where the desert camping areas are starting to get kinda hot, while the
mountains are still pretty cold. So now's a good time to take things
apart. Gives me plenty of time to repair what I break in the process.

Anyone wanna sell/donate to me enough of them snaps so I can re-attach
my slider panel after I open it and tighten the linkage that is making
it so difficult to open the door from the outside? I do NOT want to have
the handle bust off.

Only problem I see with putting shelving/medicine cabinet in the slider
door idea is that it will be banged around a lot. So soft goods within
only, like the original suggestion: magazines. And no sense adding
things that bang! to the mix. Darn slider makes enough noise in the
morning in a quiet campground as it is.

  ssssSSSSSSHHH-FWUMP!

--
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



JordanVw@aol.com typed:
> In a message dated 4/17/07 10:14:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM writes:
>
>
>> Anyone got a picture of a slider with the panel removed? I have delayed
>> taking off my panel even though the outside handle is getting very
>> stubborn about opening the door because I've been told that the snaps
>> that hold the panel into place are most likely brittle, and pretty
>> unobtainable.
>
>
> ive got a coffeecan full of the 80-84 westy sliding door panel snaps.
> theyre the same as the 80-84 westy hatch snaps, and are interchangeable
> with the pass van rear interior panel snaps.   the snaps arent anything
> to worry about. they can be had.
>
> the doorhandle, thats what you have to worry about.   the 80-84 slider
> doorhandle is NLA.   you let the screw work its way out, the handle gets
> loose and sloppy, and the handle breaks off,  you will be SOL.
>
> chris
>
>
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