Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:43:03 -0700
Reply-To: Craig Luke <snowwesty@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Craig Luke <snowwesty@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Where to buy Limbo Hatch Stick?
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don't want to hijack. but I'm pondering something as simple as a length of
pipe slid over the remaining stub. And putting a bold right through it, with
the lock cylinder removed. Never use that one anyways, with the front door
right there. Plug the end, paint it black and be done with it...
Craig
life flows....
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Annie <lsandrsn@gmail.com> wrote:
> Let me know what you come up with for a slider handle - mine's been broken
> since I before I bought the van and finding one for less than an arm and a
> leg has proven unsuccessful.
>
> Makes it very hard to get the kids in and out.
>
> ~Annie
>
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Craig Luke <cluke.aspire@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 1 turnbuckle. Best $3.49 i've spent in a loooong time. Price of a good
>> coffee in this town. I love just aimlessly wandering hardware stores
>> re-purposing things that could only be come up with by some crazed
>> van-dweller....
>>
>> Working of building a better, stronger (more ghetto) slider handle. Broke
>> two in the same number of years :(
>>
>> Craig
>>
>> life flows....
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Paul <wognacious@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Wow, those hatch lock extensions are expensive! Just go to your local
>> > hardware and buy an aluminum turnbuckle, about 5 inches long.l Open one
>> > looped end to form a "J". When that is hooked onto the latch pin on the
>> > bottom of the opening, swung around 45 degrees, and the looped end
>> locked
>> > into the hatch lock, it is LOCKED. Sure is nice to have that air rising
>> up
>> > off the cooler ground on hot nights.
>> >
>> > If the temperature doesn't warrant opening the rear hatch, I've
>> installed a
>> > slider on the back right side window. It opens about 8 inches - nice
>> > ventilation.
>> > _________________
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 3:04 AM, Frank Condelli <RAlanen@aol.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > In a message dated 15/07/2010 6:34:09 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> > > LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM writes:
>> > >
>> > > Well, just go to the LiMBO website ! >>>>>>_The late Model
>> Bus
>> > > Organization, international- LiMBO_ (http://www.limbobus.org/)
>> > >
>> > > I saw one at a campout and can't find them on the Net. Anyone know
>> where
>> > > th=
>> > > ey are?
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Cheers,
>> > >
>> > > Frank Condelli - LiMBO Representative for Canada !
>> > > Almonte, Ontario, Canada
>> > > '87 Westy & Lionel Trains (_Collection for sale_
>> > > (http://frankcondelli.com/trainsal.htm) )
>> > > _Frank Condelli & Associates_ (
>> http://frankcondelli.com/busindex.html)
>> > -
>> > > Vanagon/Vanagon Westfalia Service in the Ottawa Valley
>> > > _Vanagon Stainless Steel Exhaust Systems_
>> > > (http://frankcondelli.com/exhaust.htm)
>> > > _BusFusion_ (http://www.busfusion.com/) a VW Camper camping event,
>> > > Almonte, ON, June 10 ~ 13, 2010
>> > >
>> >
>>
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