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Subject:Re: Westy Stove Leveling Ideas Sought
From:Dave Mcneely
Date:Tue, 17 Jul 2012 23:21:22 -0500

Jim, you'll have to point us to it.  The link just brings up a catalog, and nothing is obvious.  But the oven shown looks interesting.  mcneely

---- Jim Arnott <jrasite@EONI.COM> wrote:
> On Jul 17, 2012, at 7:06 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>
> > Thread drift. I'm not asking for ways to level the van, I got that.
> > What I'm looking for is an easy way to level the stove grill.
> > Leveling it by leveling the van would require plenty of trips in and
> > out to take a look at the grill's levelosity (bubble level, for
> > example) then out to tweak the setup, then back in to look. Wash,
> > rinse, repeat. Easier and quicker would be to just stand at the
> > stove and level it through some means yet to be finalized.
>
> Actually not. Park with rear end high. Place level on battery box
> cover behind passenger seat. Open slider. Jack to level fore and aft
> at passenger front. Side to side, move level to door sill at driver's
> door. Fine adjust port-starboard trim there. Total time? Five minutes
> max. The grill is level (within reason) to the bus. You want perfect
> level stove? Coleman stove and a box of shim shingles. Leveling the
> grill alone won't work because then your cooking utensil is not level
> to the flame. That will cause uneven heating. Though I suppose you
> could devise a flame spreader to minimize that effect.
>
> What you need is this: http://www.defender.com/product.jsp?path=-1|406|
> 694|330373&id=1038045
>
> THAT will do what you need. (And installing it will raise the cooktop
> surface a few inches which will definitely improve things.)
>
> Jim

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David McNeely