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Subject:Re: installing new luggage rack seals
From:Christopher Gronski
Date:Sun, 1 Oct 2006 18:27:26 -0400

Any hardware store will sell these.

It is a rubber washer with a dome shaped screen in the middle of it,
the domes fit perfectly up through the drain holes of the luggage
rack.

They normally go on the hose of a washing machine.

Chris

On 10/1/06, Joy Hecht <jhecht@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> What are "washing machine screened washers?"
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> :::-----Original Message-----
> :::From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
> :::Of Christopher Gronski
> :::Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 12:28 PM
> :::To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> :::Subject: Re: installing new luggage rack seals
> :::
> :::Hey Geo,
> :::
> :::While this may indeed be possible, taking an extra 15 minutes or so to
> :::remove the rack is not a bad idea so that you can do a complete
> :::cleaning under the rack and stall the washing machine screened washers
> :::in the rack drain holes to slow the accumulation of crud underneith.
> :::While both may technically be possible with the rack still attached at
> :::the back I suppose, they would be way easier with it off.
> :::
> :::Chris
> :::
> :::On 10/1/06, Geo & Kathleen Hahn <ahwahnee@cybertrails.com> wrote:
> :::> Doug Alcock wrote:
> :::>
> :::> > Hi Joy -- Here are some instructions I posted a few years back:
> :::> > http://doug.alcock.googlepages.com/poptopseals
> :::> > though you've received plenty of advice already :-)
> :::>
> :::>
> :::> Just back on the list so apologies if this has been covered, but...
> :::>
> :::> When I did my 84 many years back I distinctly recall I did not undo the
> :::> headliner or the back edge of the luggage rack.  I just undid the big
> :::> slotted screws and was able to lift the thing just enough to get the
> :::old
> :::> seal off & the new seal on.  My experience, your mileage may vary.
> :::>
> :::> Geo H
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