Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 12:35:03 -0800
Reply-To: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Announcement: the BZ Shelf
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Way to go guys! Nice job with the design Tom and thanks for the Wiki
Rocky.
Any trouble getting in and out of the upper berth with the shelf there? I
can't really see how much of the access slot the BZ covers.
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/
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