Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 11:02:47 -0700
Reply-To: Trevor <trevorawake@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Trevor <trevorawake@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Outside Table for Vanagon
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Dave,
We'd love to help you with your skylight - we have designed our skylights after the OEM in shape size and thickness specs...we now own the OEM mold and all the rights to the OEM refit kit parts so all your original parts will fit such as the hinges etc...
Trevor hand makes each and every one of our skylights, which also comes with each and every skylight gets inspected meet Trevors high standards!
Thanks to Trevor, we started making these aftermarket single layer skylights in 1997 GoWesty also started doing so, soon after we sent them one of our samples...
Anyways, the OEM skylights in 1997 were over $400 to replace back then, because Trevor worked in fabrication and engineering at a shipyard at the time, he came up with a mold...which drove the price down on these...now GoWesty is driving the price down on the replacement skylights I think to just take over the market share! But it's buyer beware!
If you want a quality skylight available in over ten different fun colours from The Skylight Guy or an OEM skylight, please look on our site! They are currently on sale if you want a copper, clear or smoke skylight...the other colours are at normal retail...these prices are available until end of Easter weekend only!
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Cheri LePage
GFAB Manufacturing Ltd
www.theskylightguy.com
604-740-1018
On 2012-03-15, at 8:18 AM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET> wrote:
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
