Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 14:49:48 -0800
Reply-To: Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Announcement: the BZ Shelf
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That's the upstairs-ingress-and-egress area. Page 47.33 of Bentley's. Of
the two only people on the planet with BZ Shelves, Tom's the only one who
uses the upstairs-ingress-and-egress area, so we'll have to wait for him
to 'splain.
--
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
On 1/7/2008 1:41 PM Jake de Villiers wrote:
> Nope, 190.
>
> You know, the gap that lets you get upstairs. What do you prefer to call
> it? I'd never needed a name for it before I asked that question.
>
> Does the new improved BZ Shelf make it hard to get upstairs?
>
> On Jan 7, 2008 1:27 PM, Tom Buese <tombuese@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> On Jan 7, 2008, at 1:35 PM, Jake de Villiers wrote:
>>
>>> Way to go guys! Nice job with the design Tom and thanks for the Wiki
>>> Rocky.
>> Thanks
>>> Any trouble getting in and out of the upper berth with the shelf
>>> there?
>> No, but If you weigh over 500 lbs. you might have a problem, but then
>> the bed probably won't hold you anyway?
>>> I
>>> can't really see how much of the access slot the BZ covers.
>> Not sure what you mean?
>>
>> Tom BZ-how big is your access slot?
>>> Thanks again, Jake
>>>
>>> On Jan 2, 2008 5:40 PM, Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Back in August or so Mrs Squirrel and I became frustrated with
>>>> having to
>>>> deal with boxes of groceries and stuff which were constantly
>>>> underfoot
>>>> when camping in places where the local critters were eying our
>>>> comestibles
>>>> with considerable interest. I wondered whether it might be
>>>> possible to
>>>> hang a shelf in the otherwise unused overhead space at the front
>>>> of the
>>>> raised poptop and posted a proposal involving chains and skyhooks and
>>>> stuff, an idea that was doomed to never work.
>>>>
>>>> Several folks suggested better ways to go about it, but nothing
>>>> seemed
>>>> very easy to me. Then Tom Buese, who was apparently looking for an
>>>> excuse
>>>> to avoid doing real work, popped up with a design for a shelf
>>>> which mounts
>>>> easily on the poptop's crossarm with a couple of hardware store U-
>>>> bolts,
>>>> holds a surprising amount of stuff when deployed, and folds flat
>>>> against
>>>> the roof when the top is down. He put together a prototype and
>>>> emailed a
>>>> dimensioned drawing of his idea to me. I banged a version together
>>>> in a
>>>> couple of hours without hardly any significant loss of blood and
>>>> mounted
>>>> it up. After a test on a short camping trip, it has become a
>>>> permanent
>>>> addition to our Westy. Best thing I've ever done -- besides
>>>> marrying Mrs
>>>> Squirrel, I'd say.
>>>>
>>>> After the Vanagon Wiki went "live" this year I suggested to Tom
>>>> that we
>>>> could post a how-to article about his "BZ Shelf" but it took him a
>>>> bit of
>>>> time to take the pictures and refine the drawing. But finally, after
>>>> considerable nagging on my part, I got him to post the stuff to me
>>>> so I
>>>> could write the article.
>>>>
>>>> If you're like me, able to use a reciprocating saw without hardly
>>>> ever
>>>> cutting off a finger, own a Westy, and find yourself sometime
>>>> wishing you
>>>> had a darn place to put pots and pans and coolers and stuff that
>>>> seem to
>>>> crowd your floor when camping, do yourself a favor and build a BZ
>>>> Shelf. I
>>>> reckon you'll be glad you did.
>>>>
>>>> So here it is, with Tom's permission: photos and plans at
>>>> http://vanagonwiki.net/index.php/Buese_Shelf
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jake
>>> 1984 Vanagon GL
>>> 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
>>> Crescent Beach, BC
>>> www.crescentbeachguitar.com
>>> http://subyjake.googlepages.com/
>>
>
>
> --
> Jake
> 1984 Vanagon GL
> 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
> Crescent Beach, BC
> www.crescentbeachguitar.com
> http://subyjake.googlepages.com/
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