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Subject:Re: Pop top side bar lift?
From:David McNeely <davmcneely40@GMAIL.COM>
Date:Wed, 27 Jul 2022 15:30:51 -0700

Eric, I cannot make the lift using the side bars.  There is not enough
leverage for me to do the lift that way, given the breadth of the reach.  I
do not wish to try lifting one side and then the other.  So, I stood in the
center of the floor, reached out to both sides to the side bars, and tried
lifting.  I can't budge the top, though I can easily lift it from the
center bar.  The Campmobile manual describes using the center bar for the
lift.

On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 8:05 AM Eric Caron <ericcaron96@comcast.net> wrote:

>
> Hi Dave,
>
> Did you try lifting from the side bars just under the round piece the
> horizontal bar connects to?
>
> Again I have the assist struts so that may be a factor.
>
> Eric Caron
>
> > On Jul 24, 2022, at 10:35 PM, David McNeely <davmcneely40@GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > Sounds like it does a good job.  Congratulations.
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 3:30 PM Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
> >
> >> Dave,
> >>
> >> At home all day today, warm day now in the afternoon and I’m drenched in
> >> sweat from yard work.
> >>
> >> But….
> >>
> >> At noon I turned on the fridge , dc power. The inside van temp was 28,
> the
> >> inside fridge temp was 25. Van in the sun, fridge side of the van facing
> >> south.
> >>
> >> At one o’clock , fridge temp was 3.0.  Of course this is empty fridge
> and
> >> not pulling down the temp of non pre chilled comestibles. The temp in
> the
> >> fridge seems to range from 0 to 3 at this setting. Again the temp swing
> due
> >> to no thermal mass inside.
> >>
> >> But the point is, it cools down fairly fast.
> >>
> >> Just another bit of anecdotal evidence :-)
> >>
> >> Alistair
> >>
> >> On Jul 23, 2022, at 9:11 PM, David McNeely <davmcneely40@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> 
> >> Alistair, What about fit?  Dimensions a close replacement for the stock
> >> refrigerator?  It is quite a bit bigger, inside volume (cooled space).
> >>
> >> On Sat, Jul 23, 2022 at 6:55 PM Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Yeah I went over. I’ve installed a Dometic CRX-50 fridge. And I
> >>> repurposed the stock fridge vent .
> >>>
> https://shufti.blog/2022/07/23/vanagon-stock-fridge-vent-delete-option/
> >>>
> >>> Alistair
> >>>
> >>
>
>

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