Re: Those Other Brands Reply #25 – May 06, 2018, 04:31:36 pm Greg, here's a photo of open and closed pullout dinette. Taken when LD was new. 1 Likes
Re: Those Other Brands Reply #26 – May 06, 2018, 04:50:49 pm I havent seen a 30 with the dinette always see the barrel chairs it looks good. Jody 1 Likes
Re: Those Other Brands Reply #27 – May 06, 2018, 05:16:05 pm "...here's a photo of open and closed pullout dinette."ChrisHave you ever had an issue with the outboard end of the dinette table becoming detached from the wall? I have and I had Tim Pease reattach it using angle aluminum brackets with more screws, eliminating the hinge that was there originally. It's been fine ever since!
Re: Those Other Brands Reply #28 – May 06, 2018, 06:29:47 pm Quote from: Lazy Bones - May 06, 2018, 05:16:05 pm"...here's a photo of open and closed pullout dinette."ChrisHave you ever had an issue with the outboard end of the dinette table becoming detached from the wall? I have and I had Tim Pease reattach it using angle aluminum brackets with more screws, eliminating the hinge that was there originally. It's been fine ever since! Nope. I may have different hardware (a full width piano hinge). Mine does not make into a bed, one of the few years it didn't come that way from the factory, I believe. I constructed a platform to go between the bench seats so as to use it as a bed. In that configuration, the table top swings up and I secure it to the valance with a strong clamp. I used it when the grandkids were younger and smaller. Chris 2 Likes
Re: Those Other Brands Reply #29 – May 06, 2018, 08:53:57 pm Chris "In that configuration, the table top swings up and I secure it to the valance with a strong clamp."Yes, that's exactly how mine came originally! I always puzzled over why, if the table were to be lifted up, why didn't they provide some sort of attachment to hold it in place.But, as I previously stated, after the table became detached from the wall I arranged to have it fixed permanently in place, sans the hinge, a far more ridged arrangement now than before. Another issue was that the bench seats would walk themselves out into the aisle while traveling. Found a solution for that also.
Re: Those Other Brands Reply #30 – May 06, 2018, 10:00:34 pm Quote from: Chris Horst - May 06, 2018, 04:31:36 pmGreg, here's a photo of open and closed pullout dinette. Taken when LD was new.Clever- I like it!
Re: Those Other Brands Reply #31 – May 07, 2018, 01:21:07 am Quote from: Ray S. - May 06, 2018, 12:48:37 pmFunny thing, Lynne, about the chauffeur. A few years ago we were touring the Maine coast and stopped for a couple of days at an RV park on the outskirts of Freeport. My Bro and Sis -in-laws were accompanying us in their moho. After we arrived, in pulled a beautiful 40' diesel pusher with all sorts of slides and other bling. A youngish 35-something was the driver. We started to chat him up and he explained that he had just deposited the rig's owners at a hotel in the town center. He went on to explain that he was hired by the elderly couple as their driver/cook/pet attendant/toad maintainer & driver as needed. The rig had Pennsylvania license plates. I seem to recall that they were home-based somewhere around Pittsburgh. We later saw him walking the small dog on leash, and he hung a strange looking cage thing outside an opened slide window that contained a cat. We never did see the owners, nor hear anymore about them.I was thinking along the lines of those days of yesteryear when elderly ladies of means would have a "companion" as they did the Grand Tour through Europe...of course those may have ended with the Titanic. Interesting to see other options.RE: "A youngish 35-something..." I've fantasized about the look on my kids' faces should I arrive with some Chippendale arm candy, to demonstrate how I'm spending "Grandpa's money"...especially with a "proprietary" love pat to the derriere & a comment about "...and he's worth every penny!" Lynne 5 Likes
Re: Those Other Brands Reply #32 – May 07, 2018, 03:16:35 am Wrightstuff said, "...up and down the ladder to the roof as often as necessary. I'm kinda concerned that I can prob climb up there ok, but not be able to get back down. Suppose I can just stay in populated places where I can just yell for help."I cracked up the 20-something young man who was doing some yard work for me a couple of years ago when I decided it was time to clean LDy Lulubelle's roof & check her seams, so up I went to demonstrate my prowess for the neighborhood. When I finished I was so proud of myself that I channelled Helen Reddy's I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar before I left the "stage"...like still doing downward dog no matter how it may entertain or dismay the onlookers--I must use it or lose it.Lynne 2 Likes
Re: Those Other Brands Reply #33 – May 07, 2018, 10:30:23 am Getting up on the roof is not as easy for me now as it was before, but I find that using an auxiliary 8' ladder placed behind the rig ladder allows me to climb the rungs of the second ladder to the point where the rig ladder curves back toward the body of the rig, then stepping onto the rig ladder for the rest of the climb to the top; the "two ladder" ascent eliminates having to use extra gravity defying energy to get past the back angle of the rig ladder. Reverse the process to get down! 3 Likes
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