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Subject:Re: Loose stuff inside vans.
From:Karl Wolz
Date:Thu, 18 Dec 2014 13:18:16 -0700

If it doesn't, you will. 

Karl Wolz
Sent from my electronic umbilicus

> On Dec 18, 2014, at 11:01 AM, Max Wellhouse <dimwittedmoose@CFU.NET> wrote:
> 
>> On 12/18/2014 10:28 AM, T Collins wrote:
>> Either way, it is of concern when said object reaches rapid deceleration,
>> especially if that happens against a soft bio-chemical life form.
>> I have my fire extinguisher bolted down and most other items under the
>> folding bench, but I do worry about the "trunk" organizer not being secured
>> down. It holds my extra fluids and such for the van.
>> 
>> IIRC I remember seeing a pull out cover option once upon a time for the 7
>> passenger tin tops like mine. I often though some sort of cargo netting for
>> the trunk area could be in order.
>> 
>> T.
>> 
>>> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>>> Inertia can be a problem in vanagon land, but I think you are talking
>>> about momentum.
>>> 
>>> Alistair
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Dec 18, 2014, at 8:03 AM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> With the inverter/crock pot cooking under way conversation going
>>> elsewhere
>>>> here, it's probably a good time to bring up the Subject.
>>>>    Anything you have, unsecured, in your van as you're going somewhere,
>>> it
>>>> will become a potentially lethal projectile in the event of crash.  The
>>>> whole van and all it's  contents are full of kinetic energy at
>>> speed...stop
>>>> the van against something and all the loose  contents will keep going
>>> until
>>>> THEY get stopped, too.  If that crock pot, that set of golf clubs, that
>>>> portopotty, that table saw hits YOU or anyone else during a crash, it is
>>>> likely to damage or kill.
>>>>   One of the cardinal rules in auto racing and for club tracktime events
>>>> is absolutely no loose objects inside any car when on track.
>>>>   Yes, it's really not something we often consider as we VANAGON around,
>>>> but inertia exists.  Something to be aware of.
> I wanna see that cargo netting stop a table saw.......lol
> 
> 
> DM&FS