Pix would be great!
Patti

On 6/25/07, Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> >Some cup holders mounted upfront
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> Here you go!
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> As Vanagon owners approaching the tenth month of life
> with our Westy, we've finally done something about the
> lack of workable cuppage.  Instead of using the
> folding types mounted to the front or side of the seat
> pedestals (which seem like they might get in the way
> when walking fore-aft), we tried to figure out a way
> to use some old ones we had left over from about three
> cars ago.  These are the universal
> plastic-basket-looking kind which hook onto the side
> window slot on the front door on either the driver or
> passenger side.  These work fine if your door is thick
> enough that the cupholder hangs straight, but on a
> thin door like the Vanagon has the holder kind of
> droops and is loose.  It also tends to interfere with
> the inside door handle, the armrest or the window
> crank.
>
> What I did was to devise a way to use the same
> cupholder and hang it from the horizontal slot in the
> plastic lower dash cover for the heater that resides
> in front of the shift lever.  You can work the hook
> into the slot, but the holder droops there also.  I
> simply cut a shaped wood block (see below) to fit the
> space between the back of the cupholder and the
> plastic panel and screwed it to the cupholder after
> the holder is hooked into place.  The wood must be
> unscrewed if you want to unhook the cupholder from the
> plastic panel, but the setup is very secure and the
> hook slides left and right in the slot to help prevent
> interference with the shifter when trying to, say,
> shift into reverse.
>
> I can email pix if you like.  Cut from 1"X 3"X 5" wood
> block, notched side fits against dash panel, long flat
> side nestles inside "hook" of cupholder. Screws go in
> long side and top.
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> Stephen
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> --- Troy <colorworks@GCI.NET> wrote:
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> > Ace hardware also has a selection of grommets.
> > Generally they are stored in boxes in the hardware
> > section. May be worth a shot.  It really wouldn't
> > take huge amounts of tools to shave off the 1/16"
> > required for the dowel to fit into the opening of
> > the leg. Just a piece of coarse sandpaper at a block
> > would do it in a pinch. The table saw was very
> > convenient for me, and fast! Guess I'm lazy;)
> >
> > Yes I do agree there are many things that do not
> > require huge amounts of tools or expertise, but do
> > make life in the Westy a whole lot nicer. Some cup
> > holders mounted upfront, a grab bar for the driver's
> > door are two that immediately come to mind.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Troy
> >
> >   RE: Grommets for rear table leg
> >   I just looked at the Rockler website.  I'm going
> > to have to measure again but it looks like the sizes
> > they have are the same as what I found locally.  I
> > have seen on Westy with a grommet in that location,
> > a '91 and the owner said it came to her that way so
> > no help (and I never got a chance to steal it :) )
> >
> >   And I agree that a bigger diameter dowl would be
> > just a little more solid.  But I have no shop to
> > work in so turning an ovesize dowel down to fit
> > isn't in the script for me.
> >
> >   One of these days I'm going to continue with my
> > idea of a BLOG or Web page that shows some of the
> > easy convenience upgrades and changes that can be
> > made by anyone with basic tools.  We have a lot of
> > people on the various lists that either don't have
> > the skills (so they think) or the facilities to do
> > major work on their vans but there are a lot of
> > little things that can be done that make life better
> > in the Westy and don't require an engineering degree
> > or a machine shop.
> >
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