Spillmaster delivered to your door at Ebay # 290386534996

Not mine.

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Max Wellhouse <dimwittedmoose@cfu.net>wrote:

> I've always found the Spillmaster (no, that IS the real brand name)
> unit that sits on the floor to do the drink holding for me.  It holds
> two drink vessels and the receivers are adjustable for the tiniest
> tabasco bottle(for staying awake on long drives!) to holding a full
> liter Nalgene bottles (for putting out the fire from the tabasco
> sauce!)..  There's space in the rest of the unit for pens and other
> crap, the tire gauge and hardware etc. go in there.  No mounting
> needed, as it's like a foot square and sits on the floor perfectly
> behind the manual gear shifter and in front of the homemade CD
> changer housing and front console.  I think I paid like $9 for it
> several years ago, but recently found one at a yard sale for a buck.
>
> I do like the resourcefulness of the shopping cart salvaging though!!
>
> DM&FS
>
>
> At 05:41 PM 1/1/2010, C B wrote:
>
>> After several years of frustration and replacing the cab carpeting due
>> to rotting spilled lattes (ewww, but so Seattle), I found some
>> cupholders that don't obscure the front view (I'm 5'2") nor unduly get
>> in the way. Cheap also, as in "free".
>>
>> The rigid plastic units hold a tall travel mug, beverage can, or 20oz
>> plastic beverage bottle; plus two pens and two skinny cellphones/iPods
>> without covers/calculators/casette tapes (for the period music to
>> match one's old vanagon)/paper pads.
>>
>> Our cupholders were sourced from some busted grocery carts; they
>> hooked over the top rail and bolted with two phillips head/locknut
>> bolts. I mounted them by using EMT's shears to cut the back flange to
>> hook over the top of the cab center plastic footwell heater vents
>> cover, widely spaced to clear the shift lever, but not interfering
>> with either the driver's right leg nor the glove box. No reaching down
>> is required to grab a drink (at least, not if one has the driver's
>> seat set forward as I must) A tall mug or bottle in the driver's side
>> holder slightly impinges the lowest heater control slider.
>>
>> After a few more trips to test their location and utility - the
>> cupholders were flawless carrying hot beverages and iPods as we slid
>> and bumped around the snowy Oregon western Cascade Mountains this week
>> - I have to figure out more secure fastenings than the friction fit
>> plastic rails that hold the cover on the vents.
>>
>> Photos of the cupholders in place, and how I modded them:
>> http://picasaweb.google.com/Cunegonde.Van.Westfalia/CunegondeInteriorMods#
>>
>> Here's the manufacturer's webpage:
>> http://caddyproducts.com/medical.htm
>>
>