Date:         Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:18:31 -0500
Reply-To:     mcneely4@COX.NET
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From:         Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: Outside Table for Vanagon
Comments: To: Richard A Jones <Jones@COLORADO.EDU>
In-Reply-To:  <4F61FCD2.6060701@colorado.edu>
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I took a look on GoWesty at the jack point table stand.  Seems to me to be a solution for a non-problem, and maybe not a very good solution.  If the idea is to eliminate taking an extra item, well, it is an extra item.  I take a small fold up table that is light, takes little space, and can be used anywhere, not just right beside the van.

Sometimes we can get too caught up in the notion that we must be van-centric with our doings.

Your comments about the inadequacies of the GoWesty jack point table leg also put me in mind of some other GoWesty items, and how they are not always all they are cracked up to be.

Through being not all I should be cracked up to be, I cracked the lens for the skylight on my camper.  Same way everyone does, I left it open (amazingly warm early spring here, 80 degrees yesterday, forecast to be again today) and drove into the garage.

So, I looked at the available replacements, and decided that since I thought GoWesty mostly did a good job with stuff, I woujld try one of theirs.  After all, the price was good, and they made it sound great in their catalog.  Well, it doesn't fit.  It leaves a big gap between the lens and the gasket.  I found a way to make up for that, but I like things to be as they are supposed to be, not rigged.  And, the thing is of a much thinner material than the damaged one it replaces.

Oh well, it was cheap, what should I expect?

mcneely

---- Richard A Jones <Jones@COLORADO.EDU> wrote:
> I have the GoWesty outside table bracket and don't think highly
> of it.  Very heavy, awkwardly shaped and the foot that screws down
> always give me trouble getting it solid into the grass, gravel,
> whatever.
>
> Someone said Frank Condelli welded a tube onto the jack and uses
> that to hold the table.  I think that is a brilliant idea.  Simple,
> two uses of one item, etc, etc.
>
> Richard

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David McNeely