Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 17:07:27 -0700
Reply-To: Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
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From: Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Re: Announcement: the BZ Shelf
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On Jan 7, 2008, at 3:49 PM, Michael Elliott wrote:
> 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.
Just went out & popped the top, deployed the shelf, 20 seconds, then
measured the clearance between the shelf & the top edge of the upper
mattress-19.75", which means unless you are really thick, no problem
fitting in. Pics came out blurry, so film at 11.
YMMV,
Tom BZ
> --
> 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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