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Subject:Re: How is the Westy water tank inlet routed?
From:Michael Elliott
Date:Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:29:42 -0700

Aw, shoot. That's no fun. I thought it meant that we had a Westy
Heisenberg uncertainty principle going on here. The actual capacity of
the tank is indeterminate until we measure it, at which point the tank
function collapses into one of the two volumes.

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR

Bill Collins typed:
>> water = 8.3 lbs/gal
>> water tank = 10.6 gal or 13.2 gal
>> weight = 88 lbs or 110 lbs
>>
>> ('87 brochure on the web has 10.5 gal, but my camper manual
>> with my '87 states 13.2.  Another (maybe '80?) brochure has
>> 10.6 gal.  Does anyone know the accurate numbers?)
>
> 10.6 imperial gal = 13.2 US gal
>
> Maybe that's the source of the confusion
>
> Bill
>