I don't have Optima battery, just ordinary group 41 Walmart battery.
Recently i decided to gain much easier access to battery,
aux. battery relay and have some hidden space.
So, i pulled out my grinder and removed useless(to me) turntable mechanism.
Result works very well. To compensate for lost seat hight just placed foam pad under
the sheepskin cover.
I am cabinet builder and use 1/2" baltic birch plywood for many projects.
It's incredibly strong and easy to work with. You can make raised box out of it
with hinged cover behind driver seat. Just an idea...
Leon
85 Subwagen Westy

1/11/02 12:55:15 PM, "Cooper, Jonathan R." <cooper@BQMLAW.COM> wrote:

>I finally broke down and bought an Optima battery an, given the balmy
>weather last week, installed it.  Followed the Harold & Nancy Method and
>installed it upright, because I hate cutting anything substantial and did
>not want to cut off the top posts of the battery. I want to make a battery
>Cover like H&N's. I cannot raise them, so does anyone have an idea of a
>malleable material out of which I could build a cover that would go over the
>posts and then swoop down so the driver's seat could rotate, all while
>looking like it was made for the space. I thought of screen with fiberglass
>over it. And then what? Light brown fleece? Carpet won't conform enough. I
>don't think I have sufficient metal forming tools. Outside of a propane
>torch, I don't have anything that would melt plastic to form it, so I am
>stuck. I would like this to be hardy, because I will likely take it off and
>put it on more times than one.
>Thanks
>
>Jonathan R. Cooper
>Brzytwa, Quick & McCrystal
>900 Skylight Office Tower
>Cleveland, OH 44113
>216-664-6900 (voice)
>216-664-6901 (fax)
>Cooper@BQMlaw.com
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