Sounds like just the ticket! Any pics for the mechanically unimaginative?

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Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
KG6RCR

On 5/9/2005 6:52 AM mark drillock wrote:

> Yes, that was me. I have done it to a few Westys. I replace the flaky or
> broken Westy faucets with a SureFlo model that has a much better switch
> and that can vary the amount of water that comes out, as well as pivot
> up to allow larger pans to be placed in and filled from the sink The
> SureFlo has no connection for a city water hookup but that is seldom if
> ever used anyway. The city water outside hookup then has no function so
> I cut the guts out of it and attach a computer type fan to the back of
> it and some screen mesh in between With the little water door propped
> open and the fan switched on, the heat that builds up behind the fridge
> can be removed from the van instead of just recirculated in the
> interior. When camped in warm weather this can help the fridge cool
> things quite a bit and keep the interior living space cooler as well.
> The noisier stock Dometic cooling fan will run less often too
>
> Mark
>
> Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>
>> Thanks to all who helped me find the Dometic tweak links that I had
>> lost. I plan to give the unit a complete cleaning and put in better
>> fans, etc., next week.
>>
>> I recall that last year, someone on this list wrote that he had, or was
>> going to, modify the space behind the reefer so that the waste heat,
>> rather than being vented into the cabin, would vent out through the side
>> of his Vanagon. I think he had described some scheme where the
>> pressurized water hookup thing would be removed and a fan installed in
>> its location. The little hatch could still be closed. . . .
>>
>> Something like that.
>>
>> Does this ring a bell?
>>
>> --
>> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
>> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
>> 84 Westfalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
>> KG6RCR
>>
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