Can't you just step up onto the seat pedestal Mike?  If you make the knob
hang down six inches it'll whack your head when the top's down.

On 6/28/07, Mike Rocket J Squirrel Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Following up on my own query (below), How about removing the knob,
> connecting a universal joint to the shaft, then a 6'' shaft, then
> attaching a knob to the lower end of this dangly shaft?
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Reaching skylight knob
> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:40:59 -0700
> From: Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com>
> Reply-To: camping.elliott@gmail.com
> To: Vanagon <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>
> I'm too short to reach the skylight knob when the top up. I used to just
> lower the top a bit when I needed to open or close the skylight, but now
> that I have installed a Buese Shelf(TM) on the crossbar, it's a bit more
> complicated because whatever's on the shelf needs to be removed before
> lowering the lid. What would be cool would be some kind of extension for
> the knob, dangled down where I can reach it.*
>
> *Of course I could haul something into the van to stand on. I like to
> keep the floor uncluttered though, it being somewhat small, so most
> floor items get moved outside when camping.
> --
>
> 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
>
>
> --
>
> 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
>

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Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
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