Try using an old fashioned ice cream maker with a hand crank.  Remove the
crank and install a sprocket.  Attach a sprocket where the left rear wheel
used to be on your van and use it as a power take off.  Attach a bicycle
chain between the two.  Hard part is finding someone dumb enough to hold on
to the bucket, but some folks will do anything for homemade ice cream!

Karl Wolz

----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Smith <chris.smith@AQUILA.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 8:17 AM
Subject: Re: Ice Cream Conversion

> At 07:34 AM 12/17/99 -0700, jim hayes wrote:
> >I would like to convert the fridge in my weekender to an ice
> >cream maker. Should I rewire the batteries in parallel or
> >seriously?
> >
> >
> I tried rewiring seriously, but started laughing and wrecked the whole
> thing.  If you want to make Ice cream don't wreck your fridge, buy an old
> fashion ice cooled maker, or hunt your local thrift stores for a dorm-room
> type fridge and set it to the max cooling setting.  You'll need A/C to
make
> it work, but at least it will leave you with a still good westy fridge.
>
> cbs