Date:         Fri, 16 Apr 1999 11:55:31 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <synergx@IBM.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <synergx@IBM.NET>
Subject:      Re: Westy Front table survey
Comments: To: Kevin Sullivan <ksull@MBARI.ORG>
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At 07:39 4/16/99 -0700, Kevin Sullivan wrote:
>I think I still have mine, it should be somewhere in the garage! ;>)
>
>It really is more trouble than it is worth. Have two people ever been
>able to swivel the fronts seats around enough to use it for dining
>effectively?
>

I doubt it.  Just for a start, having to mess with the handbrake to rotate
the driver's seat makes it a seldom thing for me.  OTOH I routinely rotate
the pass. seat to face the rear, that's the armchair.  I use the small
table a lot.  Here are some variations:  First of all, I ordinarily stow
the large table in the space at the rear of the poptop.  In several years
of driving around it has mildly dinged the flocking inside the poptop, no
prob. IMO.  I stow the small table on the rear arm -- this allows stowage
for a small garbage container btw the fwd end of the table and the after
end of the stove.  I modified (bent) the reefer vent-plate to keep said
container from nestling up to it and shutting off the air.  I leave the
front arm shipped and angled toward the right rear corner, and hang the
handles of a plastic trash bag from it, i.e. one handle slipped over and
riding on the vertical leg, the other captured by the lock knob.  Has to be
the right size bag.  This is handy commodious, and reachable while driving.
 When set up as a mobile computing office, I leave the small table shipped
on the forward arm; it (barely) stows flat against the stove front.  That's
my monitor/keyboard table, extended endwise toward the rotated passenger
seat.  With judicious and considerable use of bungee cords I can drive
around with a full setup including printer, and be ready to use the thing
within five minutes of popping the lid.  Of course it takes an hour or more
to setup and tear down....  When camping we use the small table as kitchen
counterspace, and bring out the large table for elegant dining in the rear
seat.  The small one stays on the arm unless it gets in the way for some
reason.  The large one stows on the after arm as VW intended.  When we
break camp, the big one goes up top and the little one moves aft.  Wouldn't
be without it, myself.

david
David Beierl - dbeierl@ibm.net