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70Crew
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My two “bays in the snow” pics.
This one is a bus I owned in college, circa 1979, taken in Aspen CO on a cross-country trip.
A photo of my current ride... sorry, this is as close as I get this baby to the snow. 
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Hikelite
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2018 10:53 am Post subject: Re: Pictures of Bays in Snow |
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What's wrong with just pointing them straight out/up?
If you put something over them, wouldn't that make things worse?
It seems to me a tube slid over the wiper arms would make the 'ledge' the snow sits on even larger. Wouldn't the wiper arms then be holding the additional weight of the tube and more snow?
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Angus II
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2018 2:09 pm Post subject: Re: Pictures of Bays in Snow |
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| Hikelite wrote: |
What's wrong with just pointing them straight out/up?
If you put something over them, wouldn't that make things worse?
It seems to me a tube slid over the wiper arms would make the 'ledge' the snow sits on even larger. Wouldn't the wiper arms then be holding the additional weight of the tube and more snow? |
Hello, ^^^^ That is what we do up here, flip em up......
If you can. I have to use a block under my Dodge 2500s wipers, they don't flip up. |
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HelmutofBuffalo
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2018 3:00 pm Post subject: Re: Pictures of Bays in Snow |
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Had to drag a piece of steel out of the creek bed. Who knew a Volvo station wagon wouldn't work ? So I had to bring the workhorse out of storage to get the job done.
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Abscate
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2018 3:06 pm Post subject: Re: Pictures of Bays in Snow |
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| roll them into wiper standoffs |
  huh?
what's that?
I am not one bit afraid to make myself look dumb if I can learn something and become less dumb.   |
Sorry, poorly written
Make wiper standoffs by rolling tubes which then hold the wipers off the glass.
You put them in up,and down so they don’t snag snow
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Hikelite
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2018 9:03 pm Post subject: Re: Pictures of Bays in Snow |
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| Abscate wrote: |
| Hikelite wrote: |
| Abscate wrote: |
| roll them into wiper standoffs |
huh?
what's that?
I am not one bit afraid to make myself look dumb if I can learn something and become less dumb. |
Sorry, poorly written
Make wiper standoffs by rolling tubes which then hold the wipers off the glass.
You put them in up,and down so they don’t snag snow |
OK I think the concept is getting through my dense skull
You still flip them out, like I'm used to, but you have a 'cover' to keep them from getting all frozen up, and being round, the snow falls off the tubes.
Now I can see it! Thanks.
Sorry for the questions. Back to snow pictures. 
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richparker
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KrisBalfe
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| Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 3:49 pm Post subject: Re: Pictures of Bays in Snow |
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vwwestyman
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crownline
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| Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 8:32 am Post subject: Re: Pictures of Bays in Snow |
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That gentleman looks like a bus body sitting on a vanagon syncro.
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"It"s got some dings and dents and neither of us is going to SEMA."(Update, I went to SEMA in 2019 but the Bus stayed home)
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crownline
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| Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 8:34 am Post subject: Re: Pictures of Bays in Snow |
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That gentleman looks like a bus body sitting on a vanagon syncro frame.
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Barelymuvin
Wish I still had the ones I got rid of.
"It"s got some dings and dents and neither of us is going to SEMA."(Update, I went to SEMA in 2019 but the Bus stayed home)
[url=http://www.vw-mplate.com/mplate-8446.png]Click to view image[/URL] |
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KrisBalfe
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| Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 1:20 pm Post subject: Re: Pictures of Bays in Snow |
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| crownline wrote: |
| That gentleman looks like a bus body sitting on a vanagon syncro frame. |
Indeed. |
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crownline
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| Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 3:05 pm Post subject: Re: Pictures of Bays in Snow |
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Indeed.[/quote]
So any conversion pictures? I had an 87 syncro once. You have the best of both worlds there.
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Barelymuvin
Wish I still had the ones I got rid of.
"It"s got some dings and dents and neither of us is going to SEMA."(Update, I went to SEMA in 2019 but the Bus stayed home)
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crownline
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| Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 3:07 pm Post subject: Re: Pictures of Bays in Snow |
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Never mind i just looked in your gallery.  nice. Alot of work.
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Barelymuvin
Wish I still had the ones I got rid of.
"It"s got some dings and dents and neither of us is going to SEMA."(Update, I went to SEMA in 2019 but the Bus stayed home)
[url=http://www.vw-mplate.com/mplate-8446.png]Click to view image[/URL] |
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KrisBalfe
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| Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 5:10 pm Post subject: Re: Pictures of Bays in Snow |
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| crownline wrote: |
| Never mind i just looked in your gallery. nice. Alot of work. |
Thanks. |
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alaskadan
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| Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 7:05 pm Post subject: Re: Pictures of Bays in Snow |
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| So how does it drive? |
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KrisBalfe
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| Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 8:38 pm Post subject: Re: Pictures of Bays in Snow |
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| alaskadan wrote: |
| So how does it drive? |
I’ll dump a bunch of stuff in the build thread so I don’t clog this one up. Short answer... some kinks to work out but it is incredible, wish I had the time and resources to do it to my other buses. |
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andrewtf
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| Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2018 7:34 pm Post subject: Re: Pictures of Bays in Snow |
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A little inch dusting yesterday.
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riverside66
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| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2018 7:32 am Post subject: Re: Pictures of Bays in Snow |
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We thought this was a lot...
and then it snowed some more.
All said, we got about 18" of snow over the weekend. This much snow this quickly is uncommon in this area, but we're enjoying it all the same.
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