Roy........Got PIX? TIA........Rodney

--- Roy Olynick <rrh@AUTOBAHN.MB.CA> wrote:
> The rear table in my '87 Westy has been whacking
> against the driver's side
> interior wall recently despite my body builder
> efforts to supercrank the
> tightening knob on the table leg. Supercranking also
> strips the machine bolt in
> the knob, which is not good. The archives contain
> some inventive solutions, all
> of which don't appear "factory" enough for my
> tastes, so I came up with my own.
>
> To visualise what I've done, run to your Westy right
> now, remove the table top,
> "table tightening knob" and table leg. Raise the lid
> of the storage bin closest
> to the stove/fridge. Inside the bin, you'll see the
> metal corner bracket through
> which the table leg goes and into which is screwed
> the "table tightening knob".
> Remove this bracket. Inside you'll see a
> convex/concave shaped, rectangular
> piece of metal, which I'll call the "pressure tab".
> When you tighten the knob,
> the machine bolt inside forces this "pressure tab"
> against the table leg to
> "lock" the table leg in place.
>
> I've placed a piece of bicycle tubing over this
> pressure tab so that when the
> bracket is re-installed, the tubing will be between
> the pressure tab and the
> table leg. The rubber texture of the tubing provides
> enough friction to firmly
> hold the table leg in place when the knob is screwed
> in tightly. I cut the
> tubing somewhat longer than the pressure tab, in
> order that the upper end of the
> tubing, when in place, can be folded over the edge
> of the metal corner bracket
> and firmly held between the bracket and the cabinet
> wall when the bracket is
> re-installed. This eliminates any need for glue to
> hold the tubing in position.
>
> Although the table has some play if you tug on it,
> it no longer whacks against
> the van interior wall anymore when I take corners on
> two wheels.
>
> Roy Olynick
> '87 VW Westfalia GL
> (till death do us part)
> '91 Honda Civic SE
> '01 Honda Civic LX
> www.autobahn.mb.ca/~rrh/Westy_Home.htm

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Rodney Kindlund
RodKraft Studio (Leather-Art)
rodney@rodkraftstudio.com
www.rodkraftstudio.com
'84 VW Wolfsburg Weekender "Sunshine SuperVan
'84 VW Wolfsburg Weekender "'NutherBus"
'82 VW Westfalia Camper "Celestial VPod"

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