VAL Digest V1 #35

VAL Digest          Tuesday, October 14 2003          Volume 01 : Number 035




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Topics in Today's Digest:

RE: [VAL] Dent fixin
[VAL] Refrigerator shelves
Re: [VAL] Refrigerator shelves
Re: [VAL] Refrigerator shelves
Re: [VAL] Rocky Mountain VAC Rally 2004
Re: [VAL] Rocky Mountain VAC Rally 2004
Re: [VAL] Refrigerator shelves
Re: [VAL] Weigh Station Open
[VAL] Battery Storage
Re: [VAL] Refrigerator shelves
[VAL] Hard-to-find flare fitting
Re: [VAL] Hard-to-find flare fitting

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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:08:59 -0700
From: RJ.Dial@xxxxxxxxxx.com
Subject: RE: [VAL] Dent fixin

http://vintageairstream.com/rr_topics_dents.html

Nope....
RJ


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> Subject: Re: [VAL] Re: VAL Digest V1 #33 - Dent fixin
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>
> You may want to try the old ICE CUBE method on it..
> Park it in the HOT sun and when it is ready to fry egg's on the skin
> hold an ice cube on the dent.
> It may just pop out.
> Dean

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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 16:17:01 -0400
From: <lindner.1@xxxxxxxxxx.edu>
Subject: [VAL] Refrigerator shelves

My thirty-two-year-old Dometic RM-60 still cools fine.  However, the plating on the racks/shelves 
has pitted and there are ugly rust spots here and there.  Any suggestions???

                        -- Lew #4239

'72 Safari
Custom Craft Megatow

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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 13:32:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: Toby Folwick <toby_folwick@xxxxxxxxxx.com>
Subject: Re: [VAL] Refrigerator shelves

steel wool, and a coat of metal polish.

toby

- --- lindner.1@xxxxxxxxxx.edu wrote:
> My thirty-two-year-old Dometic RM-60 still cools
> fine.  However, the plating on the racks/shelves 
> has pitted and there are ugly rust spots here and
> there.  Any suggestions???
> 
>                         -- Lew #4239
> 
> '72 Safari
> Custom Craft Megatow
> 
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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 16:40:06 -0400
From: "T o m  :-\)" <tmeeker@xxxxxxxxxx.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [VAL] Refrigerator shelves

Hi Lew,

Suggestions?  Sure.

If it's just the plating that has gone away and the metal has surface rust:
clean off the rust as best you can with something like a Scotch-Brite pad.
Clean the surface and apply a product like the kind that Rustoleum sells
that changes 'rust' to a black type of reconstituted 'metal' that can then
be painted, etc.  I don't see any reason why you couldn't use one of the
spray 'Chrome' paints from a known company such as Rustoleum, etc.  The
chrome paint would of course be 'plastic chrome' but you will have stopped
the rust from getting worse or coming back at that location.  And, the
'plastic chrome' should make those ancient shelves look good or nearly as
good as new.

How'd I do?

Tom
WBCCI 5303
1969 29' International Ambassador
1995 34' Classic Excella FK
2001 Ford Excursion 4x4 7.3 Powerstroke

From: <lindner.1@xxxxxxxxxx.edu>
Subject: [VAL] Refrigerator shelves


: My thirty-two-year-old Dometic RM-60 still cools fine.  However, the
plating on the racks/shelves
: has pitted and there are ugly rust spots here and there.  Any
suggestions???
:
:                         -- Lew #4239
:
: '72 Safari
: Custom Craft Megatow

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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:13:44 +0000
From: "seana carroll" <seana_carroll@xxxxxxxxxx.com>
Subject: Re: [VAL] Rocky Mountain VAC Rally 2004

I am planning a cross country tour in my '68 Overlander from
Washington,DC to Los Angeles in 2004. I am turning my Overlander into an
art gallery for video/audio and installation work and touring it. I would
love to go to some Rallys. I want to start planning my itinerary now.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Does anyone know of similar projects or
grant info or promotional ideas? I am an art student and this is my
senior thesis. I would love any suggestions and or advice. Thanks in
advance!!!

- ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Earl Peck" Reply-To:
valist@xxxxxxxxxx.com To: Subject: [VAL] Rocky Mountain VAC Rally 2004
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 18:52:47 -0600 Hello All Can anyone tell me the
proposed dates for the 2004 Rocky Mountain Rally? I would like to attend
but have to put in for next years vacation time within the next 2 days.
Any help asap would greatly be appreciated. Thanks, Earl Peck 1965
Overlander (Inez) WBCC 1965
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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:50:25 -0400
From: "T o m  :-\)" <tmeeker@xxxxxxxxxx.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [VAL] Rocky Mountain VAC Rally 2004

VAC rallies and/or WBCCI rallies, too?

Tom
WBCCI 5303

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From: "seana carroll" <seana_carroll@xxxxxxxxxx.com>
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Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: [VAL] Rocky Mountain VAC Rally 2004


: I am planning a cross country tour in my '68 Overlander from
: Washington,DC to Los Angeles in 2004. I am turning my Overlander into an
: art gallery for video/audio and installation work and touring it. I would
: love to go to some Rallys. I want to start planning my itinerary now.
: Does anyone have any suggestions? Does anyone know of similar projects or
: grant info or promotional ideas? I am an art student and this is my
: senior thesis. I would love any suggestions and or advice. Thanks in
: advance!!!
: 
: ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Earl Peck" Reply-To:
: valist@xxxxxxxxxx.com To: Subject: [VAL] Rocky Mountain VAC Rally 2004
: Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 18:52:47 -0600 Hello All Can anyone tell me the
: proposed dates for the 2004 Rocky Mountain Rally? I would like to attend
: but have to put in for next years vacation time within the next 2 days.
: Any help asap would greatly be appreciated. Thanks, Earl Peck 1965
: Overlander (Inez) WBCC 1965
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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:21:06 -0500
From: Mike Keith <mkeith@1pcplace.com>
Subject: Re: [VAL] Refrigerator shelves

At 03:17 PM 10/13/2003, you wrote:

>My thirty-two-year-old Dometic RM-60 still cools fine.  However, the 
>plating on the racks/shelves
>has pitted and there are ugly rust spots here and there.  Any suggestions???
>
>                         -- Lew #4239
>
>'72 Safari
>Custom Craft Megatow

One solution is to clean the up real good, buff them out so no rust is left 
and then take them to a plater and have them re-plated.  Look in the yellow 
pages under metal finishers or plater's.  Should run around 50 bucks to 
have done, if you clean the up real good.  Another solution is to buy a 
product called tool dip.  It comes in various colors and is used to 
insulate tool handles.  Again, clean the rack real good. Start by thinning 
the tool dip a little. If you can find a disposable pan large enough to 
hold the racks, you could pour the dip into the an and then dip the racks 
and remove.  Allow to drip and the hang to dry.  It might take several 
coats to cover all the way and get smooth but it will be durable and won't 
rust unless the coating is cut. Tool dip cost around 10 bucks a can and I'd 
get two or three cans.  Tool dip also works great for sealing battery 
terminals when they are new, sealing wire connections and loads of other 
uses fro insulating or proving a cushion for noise reduction.  JC Whiteny, 
McMaster-Carr and a lot of auto parts houses sell it.

HTH


Mike


Mike and Marianne Keith
75 Argosy 26'  81 F100
New Florence, MO
GR8R STL unit #4503
Nil Illigitimi Carborundum RAH

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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 19:38:39 -0700
From: "Jim O'Keefe" <designerjimo@xxxxxxxxxx.com>
Subject: Re: [VAL] Weigh Station Open

>On a recent trip I surprisingly found a weigh station that was open.

>Maybe I could unhitch the trailer and pull the truck off the scale. Do you
>think that line of truckers behind me would mind?

>


Rick,

If there was a line, I don't think unhitching would make you any friends.


For those traveling in southern Oregon, there is a lovely, little used, 
free, weigh station on Hwy 62 (Crater Lake Highway) just north of Eagle 
Point, on the southbound side.

We'd never weighed in before, so on we went.  I have it written down in the 
trailer's journal, but I think I remember it being 1850 front axle, 4500 
rear axle, and 6450 on the trailer's tandems.  Do the experts think these 
numbers are about right, and well within safe limits?

Is there a list of other free weigh stations?  Does it rate them for very 
busy traffic or virtually none?  We were pulled over in Eagle Point for at 
least 5 minutes and noone else came--great!

Jim, JR, and Jezebel (the standard poodle)

'85 Limited 32'
'03 Avalanche 2500

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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 20:19:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: John Leggett <pklhead2@xxxxxxxxxx.com>
Subject: [VAL] Battery Storage

The only plastic battery box I have found that will accomodate Trojan T105's is made 
by Blue Seas and stocked by West Marine for sailboat applications.  Unfortunately it 
is a large box with the batteries oriented wide side-to wide side instead of narrow 
side to side, making the box deeper than I would've liked for the trailer tongue - 
almost more square than rectangular.  I also found an outfit in Sacramento CA that 
makes aluminum stuff ( http://www.taylorwings.com/ ) 
and battery boxes for 18-wheelers and they were more than willing to make up custom-sized 
aluminum boxes to your spec for about the same money, compared to the stuff you find in 
their web catalog.  Summit Racing also sells individual aluminum battery boxes, but none 
large enough for a Trojan 6Volt.
 
I haven't gotten to the point of implementing yet, and I have a spare tire to displace, 
but I'm more inclined to have an aluminum battery box made and stay in keeping with the 
older Airstream styling than to go plastic.
 
John Leggett
San Francisco
WBCCI #1154
 
 
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Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 21:26:19 -0400
From: "Patty and Chris Peters" <candppeters@xxxxxxxxxx.att.net>
Subject: [VAL] Battery Storage

I've replaced the 12v batteries in my 88 25' excella (has 2 battery 
boxes in
the front).  I bought 2 T105s and they don' fit! tried to build a box 
for
the tongue but not enough clearance between the trailer and the LP gas
bottles.  Can you get larger battery boxes to replace the existing 
ones?
Any creative solutions?  Thanks!




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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:33:19 -0600 (MDT)
From: forrest@xxxxxxxxxx.org
Subject: Re: [VAL] Refrigerator shelves

You might consider having a shop sand blast and powder coat the racks. Re-chroming
might work too, but I've been told the results are often unsatisfactory. With powder
coating you could actually go with a color matching the interior of your fridge.

Forrest

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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:12:02 -0700
From: Rob Super <rms@xxxxxxxxxx.net>
Subject: [VAL] Hard-to-find flare fitting

I'm looking for a flare fitting (for gas line):

	tee, 5/8 x 3/8 x 3/8 (prefer the 5/8 to be on the run, but any 
location OK)

I already have one of these, which I believe to be original, on our '73 
Safari, so I know they are (were?) made. Need another as we add a 
catalytic htr. but have been unable to find one in any hardware store, 
any plumbing supply house (including the biggest one in Sacramento), 
any RV store or any auto supply house. I know I can do it with various 
adaptors but that involves "unnecessary" connections (= potential 
leaks) and--perhaps more importantly--offends my sense of simplicity.

Anyone have such either a fitting they have salvaged and are willing to 
sell or a source of supply to suggest?

TIA,

Rob

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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 01:57:28 -0400
From: "T o m  :-\)" <tmeeker@xxxxxxxxxx.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [VAL] Hard-to-find flare fitting

Rob,

Have you checked with the local gas company yet?  They usually have
fittings, lights, etc that you can't find anywhere else.

Tom
WBCCI 5303

From: "Rob Super" <rms@xxxxxxxxxx.net>
Subject: [VAL] Hard-to-find flare fitting


: I'm looking for a flare fitting (for gas line):
:
: tee, 5/8 x 3/8 x 3/8 (prefer the 5/8 to be on the run, but any
: location OK)
:
: I already have one of these, which I believe to be original, on our '73
: Safari, so I know they are (were?) made. Need another as we add a
: catalytic htr. but have been unable to find one in any hardware store,
: any plumbing supply house (including the biggest one in Sacramento),
: any RV store or any auto supply house. I know I can do it with various
: adaptors but that involves "unnecessary" connections (= potential
: leaks) and--perhaps more importantly--offends my sense of simplicity.
:
: Anyone have such either a fitting they have salvaged and are willing to
: sell or a source of supply to suggest?
:
: Rob

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