Date:         Mon, 1 Jun 2015 15:49:52 +0000
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Westy rear driver side cupholder solution
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A few weeks back I wrote about looking for a slide-out cupholder that would
fit under the rear table of a westy. The importance of that location was
that a regular vanagon cupholder that could only mount to the rear of the
fridge got in the way of raising and operating the table. Anyway I got some
good suggestions but finally settled for the one at the link above on ebay.
It combines a double cup holder and a small coin drawer in a unit that was
designed to fit in a DIN radio opening. Twelve bucks shipped. If you don't
like it you can remove it and no harm done to the westy table.

It has some weird-looking appendages sticking out of the sides that you
can't see when it it mounted under the table. There is no table mounting
provision per se, not surprisingly, but there are two flat tabs among the
appendages  that can be drilled to mount the thing to the bottom of the
table.

When you receive it, you won't like it because the amount of force to open
the cupholder is excessive and will pull the table out from the wall. The
solution is to look underneath the cupholder and find the two bumps that
keep it in place at rest and trim them down with a knife. They are too
aggressive. After trimming it will work fine.

Jim