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mcdonaldneal
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 Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2021 12:41 am Post subject: Re: Official Aussie Dormobile conversion thread |
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This from another thread, to show detail of the bunks and attachments...
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I’m low key preparing the Kombi in case there is an opportunity to drive to Croatia again later in the summer. At the moment it’s not possible to travel from the UK to the Netherlands or Germany except for emergency reasons, but who knows what might happen?!
The Kombi has two small bunks up top. Too small for us, and we never use them. They protrude into the roof opening and I wondered if removing them might make a bit of living space. More importantly, they are quite heavy, and removing the dead weight (top heavy weight too!) would be good.
Each bunk is attached to the roof opening frame with two bolts at either end. One also had a rivet, which I drilled out. Pretty simple to remove. There is also a grey, heavyweight vinyl cover that wraps around. This is sandwiched under a trim strip which came off and got a clean!
You can see that without the left hand bunk, the roof canvas sags down into the cabin, so I reinstalled the grey cover and I will make that into a ‘hammock’ for the roof canvas.
It’s all easily reversible, so I’ll see how I feel about it after the summer, they can always go back in!
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Holley shit balls thats a big visor  Is it meant to net the roo after you hit it? 
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You guys clearly haven't seen the size of the bugs we have down here!  |
That wire-mesh screen, looks rather like those used on European police riot squad minibuses, as illustrated in the official 1968~79 VW Type 2 Replacement Parts Catalogue & Microfiche.
http://www.ratwell.com/technical/Microfiche.html
http://www.ratwell.com/technical/Microfiche/t208320.gif
It's well known that in Australia much of the fauna there will either eat you or find other ways to kill you with lethal venom; such as sharks, salt-water crocodiles, box jellyfish, snakes, spiders, etc.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2016 8:06 am Post subject: Re: Official Aussie Dormobile conversion thread |
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Yep a good clean and a tweak here and there goes far! Looking good 
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| Holley shit balls thats a big visor Is it meant to net the roo after you hit it? |
Actually laughed out loud there! 
Here's the screen on ours. Not a Dormy accessory, but a fairly common Australian one. Stone screen. View through it's not the greatest!
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And, oh, your nose is soooo shiny. Why no stone chips? Has it had a respray?? #jealousofyournose |
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| Holley shit balls thats a big visor Is it meant to net the roo after you hit it? |
Actually laughed out loud there!
Here's the screen on ours. Not a Dormy accessory, but a fairly common Australian one. Stone screen. View through it's not the greatest!
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Phil I've actually seen two or three Dormys down here with them now (or at least the brackets that holds them). They are def. a period accessory offered at the time of sale by VW/Dormy (and potentially others). The brackets can cause rust where they're attached to the frame - can you ever take the brackets off or are they permanently attached? I guess you could drill out the rivets, but that'd look ugly in its own way... |
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Holley shit balls thats a big visor Is it meant to net the roo after you hit it?
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You guys clearly haven't seen the size of the bugs we have down here! |
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It absorbs water and swells and splits. I wanted to keep the original cupboards, and couldn't match the laminate, so I clamped the split parts and used strong wood glue and superglue. Worked out ok! The fridge has been cleaned, polished and repainted the original colour and the trim strips on the cupboards cleaned and bleached.
