Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:41:59 -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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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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