At 05:42 PM 9/10/2004, jbange wrote:

>>Downside: It would really cramp the interior when it was retracted...
>
>It would perhaps be useful to have just the fridge/stove/sink cabinet of a
>westy that cranks out. Leave it uncranked, you've got a standard Westy's
>floor space. Crank it out, you get the full floor space of a non-westy.
>Probably be hard to use the sink or cooktop, though, with one's head up in
>the pop-top and the sink/stove recessed into the "hole" that is the
>crank-out... Probably not worth the trouble.
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You've got it mostly right, but I think that when it's cranked out, the stove
and sink should be accessible from the *outside*, not the inside...
Maybe the fridge needs to rotate 80 or 180 degrees when it cranks out, so
it's accessible too...

Steve
'86 Westy "Escape Pod"
'73 Beetle "ain't got a name yet"