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Date:         Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:52:49 -0500
Reply-To:     Edward Maglott <emaglott@BUNCOMBE.MAIN.NC.US>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Edward Maglott <emaglott@BUNCOMBE.MAIN.NC.US>
Subject:      Re: BZ shelf
Comments: To: Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <479E9FD8.5030605@gmail.com>
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How about opening the window in the canvas? Is that adversely affected by the shelf being there?

Edward

At 10:39 PM 1/28/2008, Michael Elliott wrote: >Good questions, although I'll thank you not to ask about my "junk" in a >public place. > >Yes, the shelf makes it a bit harder to hoist the lid. The crossbar is no >longer graspable, but it is shoveable. It took me a few times to figure >out how to hoist and drop the top but it works fine. > >What keeps the shelf from tipping over is where Tom's cleverness shows: >the crossarm has a couple bends in it, one at each end near where it >connects to the pivot hinge assemblies and the shelf, clamped to the main >horizontal middle section of the crossarm, rests on the bends. Lift your >poptop and see how the bendy parts provide horizontal support for the >shelf. I've had lots of stuff up there, like full boxes of groceries, and >unless the wood breaks or the u-bolt backing plates pull through the >shelf, it can't tip. > >-- >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


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