VAL Digest V2 #78

VAL Digest          Friday, November 26 2004          Volume 02 : Number 078




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Topics in Today's Digest:

Re: Re:[VAL] Weakening a rib for want of a door.
[VAL] Old one for sale in Santa Cruz CA
Re: [VAL] Weakening a rib for want of a door.
[VAL] Re: VAL 1951 Silver Streak toilet
Re: [VAL] Re: VAL 1951 Silver Streak toilet

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Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 01:23:41 -0500
From: "Tom" <thomm@xxxxxxxxxx.rr.com>
Subject: Re: Re:[VAL] Weakening a rib for want of a door.

How would you frame the door in this scenario?  Would you cut out part of 
the door frame to butt them against the rib you wouldn't want to cut?  Why 
wouldn't you want to cut a rib?  It's not a big deal unless you don't make 
the joints as strong or stronger from what I know.

Tom

- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Super" <robsuper@xxxxxxxxxx.net>
To: <valist@xxxxxxxxxx.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 8:50 PM
Subject: Re:[VAL] Weakening a rib for want of a door.


> 'nother possibility:
>
> Depending upon how big the door will be, where the rib falls and what you 
> want to put in there, it might be possible to simply let the rib pass 
> uncut through the  door opening. If the rib is right at the edge of the 
> opening this would result in a slightly narrower usable width; otherwise 
> you end up dividing the usable opening into two smaller openings: that 
> could still be OK, depending upon what has to pass through--the actual 
> storage space would be unaffected. In either case, when closed the door 
> would look "normal".
>
> Rob
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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 23:28:26 -0800
From: "Mark" <mark@xxxxxxxxxx.net>
Subject: [VAL] Old one for sale in Santa Cruz CA

Usual disclaimers...just passing it along:

http://www.craigslist.org/sby/car/50119248.html

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Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 08:52:27 -0500
From: "C. Hyde" <brownhyde@primelink1.net>
Subject: Re: [VAL] Weakening a rib for want of a door.

> My 57 Sovereign of the Road and my 59 Ambassador International both have
> access hatches for the fridge straddling ribs so I guess it would be OK,
as
> Wally must have approved.
> Colin

Glyn,
Perhaps I didn't make myself very clear. The ribs on my hatches are left in
place and visible when the hatch is open. I would worry about losing
structure if they were cut without some serious hatch frame reinforcements.
Colin

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Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 19:59:09 -0800
From: RJ Dial <radiodial@xxxxxxxxxx.net>
Subject: [VAL] Re: VAL 1951 Silver Streak toilet

Saw one like it in a Curtis Wright Model 5 (48-49) only once.  If it has the
right patina and appears to part of an original layout, I'd say, yeah, it
could be original.  Is it what all SS toilets looked like then? Heck no,
most didn't have any toilet.

Cool looking idea, probably sold to may travel trailer makers of the era- a
rather unique and now rare contraption.  The buyer probably wanted one
instead of using a bucket or campground washroom (or the bushes), and Pat
Patterson & Co. obliged.  (any Relation Tom?)
RJ

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> 
> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:47:28 -0600
> From: "Tom Patterson" <pattersontom@xxxxxxxxxx.net>
> Subject: [VAL] 1951 Silver Streak toilet
> 
> I had a question as to what the original toilet in a 1951 Silver Streak might
> have looked like.
> 
> There is a picture of a folding toilet in a 1951 Silver Streak Clipper at :
> http://www.airstream.dk/1951%20Silver%20Streak%2022%20-%20toalet.jpg.
> 
> Does anyone know if this was original?
> 
> - -Tom

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Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:36:13 -0800
From: Joann Wheatley <jwheatle@xxxxxxxxxx.edu>
Subject: Re: [VAL] Re: VAL 1951 Silver Streak toilet

I've seen something very similar to that type of toilet arrangement in 
a truck camper by Alaskan. That is a fine rig but too heavy - you need 
at least a Ford 250 SD to haul it around and all the wood is solid oak 
but again - way too heavy but very nicely built to last.
Jo Ann
On Nov 2004, at 7:59 PM, RJ Dial wrote:

> Saw one like it in a Curtis Wright Model 5 (48-49) only once.  If it 
> has the
> right patina and appears to part of an original layout, I'd say, yeah, 
> it
> could be original.  Is it what all SS toilets looked like then? Heck 
> no,
> most didn't have any toilet.
>
> Cool looking idea, probably sold to may travel trailer makers of the 
> era- a
> rather unique and now rare contraption.  The buyer probably wanted one
> instead of using a bucket or campground washroom (or the bushes), and 
> Pat
> Patterson & Co. obliged.  (any Relation Tom?)
> RJ

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