Date:         Thu, 2 Aug 2007 11:44:57 -0700
Reply-To:     neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Westfalia top opening fridge question
Comments: To: ron@busdepot.com
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Yah not surewhat it is. Will ask owner for model number

(as was kindly pointed out to me by a fellow lister!)

Just getting desperate to make my 182a work properly on LP and keeping
an eye open for options.

Total mystery.

Thanks Ron,

Neil.

--
Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia.

http://web.mac.com/tubaneil




On 8/2/07, The Bus Depot <vanagon@busdepot.com> wrote:
> > Saw a "Westfalia top opening fridge (12V and 110V)" fridge
> > FS. It's listed under  "81 Vanagon parts" so not sure if a
> > transplant from older Westy. Anyways......
>
>
> It's certainly not from an '81 Westy, of course. Without seeing it, it may
> be the fridge from a '76-79 Westy.  If so, it's the same design as the
> Vanagon one but with no propane operation.  Not a particularly useful
> fridge, because the interior volume is small and what is there is largely
> taken up by the heatsink (coldsink??) thing that cools the interior (which
> sticks out into the fridge, not just along the back wall as on a Vanagon
> fridge).  It is not self-contained (the exterior is unfinished) and must be
> mounted in a cabinet.  And yes, it is a power hog like the Vanagon one.  The
> other possibility is that it could be the coolbox from a late model
> Multivan; similar design but self-contained and with more interior space.
> (Did that one work on 110, or just 12 volt? I don't recall.)
>
> - Ron Salmon
>   The Bus Depot, Inc.
>   www.busdepot.com
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