Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:35:55 -0700
Reply-To: Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
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From: Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Re: BZ shelf
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On Jan 28, 2008, at 8:39 PM, 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.
It's called a cantilever-not much of 1 but enuf to hold up almost
anything you can lift up & place on the shelf. The "moment
resisting" action of the just tightened enuf u-bolts also helps.
Mr. BZ, AIA
>
> --
> 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 1/28/2008 7:04 PM Jeffrey Vickers wrote:
>
>> These questions may have been covered when the amazing shelf project
>> first hit the list, but:
>>
>> ---doesn't the shelf prevent you from grabbing the crossbar and
>> pushing the poptop up?
>>
>> and...
>> ---what prevents the shelf from rotating downward (when loaded with
>> stuff) and sending your junk plummeting towards the floor?
>>
>>
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 28, 2008, at 2:54 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:41:20 -0800
>>> From: B Monk <wmonk@SNET.NET>
>>> Subject: Re: Another BZ Shelf Gets Installed!
>>>
>>> Didn't know the wiki page existed. I like it. I'll have to add a few
>>> articles I have written
>>> a few years back for the LiMBO newsletter. I should still have them
>>> somewhere on a CD.
>>> I plan on making the shelf out of a piece of wood thats laminated
>>> in similar grey
>>> to match the cabinets of the Westy we plan on picking up this
>>> weekend. It'll be a great place to set the portable DVD players on
>>> and the stuff animal collection they carry with them on our road
>>> trips. Now that the kids are older they will be sleeping up top.
>>> This way we can have a cup of tea before bed and not disturb them
>>> like we used to when they slept on the bottom. Thanks for again for
>>> the link Michael.
>>>
>>> Bill
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