I've been biting my tongue through all this fridge jazz and now Ryan goes
and rains on your parade.

Even better, with our new 'Extreme" cooler, we go camping for four days and
come home and put 1/2 a block of ice back into the freezer on the porch.
Beer goes into its own cooler with ice cubes.  Its perfect.

Sorry, fridge people.

On 8/2/07, Ryan Miller <rmiller@azteca.com> wrote:
>
> Forget fridges in a vanagon! They don't carry enough, are noisy, heat the
> cabin, consume precious resources and barely keep beer cold enough to
> drink
> (unless you're German) for a good camping weekend. Remove it and install
> shelves for more storage (finally! a decent accessible place to put folded
> clothes). Then, buy a nice cooler and a $1.99 block of ice and you're good
> to go for 3+ days in the wild. $325 will buy a lot of ice.
>
> But, keep the fridge! It adds a bunch to the resale value since the buyer
> will think it's a great idea too. Heh heh, suckers.
>
> My $0.02
>
> Ryan
> '82 camper van 'Beethoven'
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> neil N
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 3:31 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: fridge replacement?
>
> Is this a portable Engle?
>
> If you'rs looking for a unit to slip in place of Dometic, then check this
> out:
>
> http://www.members.shaw.ca/McTavishPAC/fridge/fridge.html
>
> IIRC, both Engle and Norcold use the same type of, or very similar,
> swing arm compressor.
>
> Food for thought......
>
> Neil.
>
>
> --
> Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia.
>
> http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
>
>
>
> On 8/2/07, Stuart Jeff <stuart@stuartjeff.com> wrote:
> > Has anyone with a Westfalia camper tried replacing their Dometic with an
> Engle? I'm really impressed with the efficiency of these units and I think
> I
> would be much happier with the Engle overall but I'm concerned about how I
> would install the thing and keep my Westy looking nice. If anybody out
> there
> has done it could you please share you experiences and maybe even some
> pictures?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Stuart
> >
>

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Jake
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