Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 10:15:47 -0700
Reply-To: Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
Subject: Re: Stove top grills?
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I guess Helmut and Franz, over dere in Westphalia, never cooked any
strudle in the engineering department while designing the cook-top..They
certainly did a very fine job on most of the rest of the Westy interior,
though. The stove burner knob settings are a bit weird, what with the "low"
setting being 'past' the high settings. I bet, over the life of the design
that feature has been responsible for some blown up vans..People turning the
flame control knob and seeing the flame diminish..thinking "Hey, it's at the
stop, it will go off, or it is off.".and closing down the top with the gas
still on "low"..
I really like the Dometic propane operation "indicator" on my particular
fridge...It has a small analog 'scale' with a needle that moves across the
face of a dial near the Gas On control knob. If the fridge doesn't fire,
the needle doesn't move..If it doesn't stay lit, the needle falls back out
of the "green zone"..(Hey, wonder if that is where the Gov. got the term
"Green Zone" for the little portion of Iraq that is usually
operative?...Bush's war seems to be similar to trying to light a
Dometic..."Click, click, click, click...Look...nothing"..Repeat..
endlessly..)
Anyhow, that type analog indicator, I've not seen on any other
Dometic..they mostly have those crappy tiny little windows that have a prism
or a mirror to let you "see" the flame...down on your knees, with the window
shaded by your hands, peering in there....Hate that...
Don Hanson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alistair Bell" <albell@uvic.ca>
To: "Don Hanson" <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
Cc: "vanagon vanagon" <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 7:50 AM
Subject: Re: Stove top grills?
> I got some Italian units from a fellow list member. They are simple
> wire things, sort of a rounded 4 point star. work well. See here:
>
> http://www.members.shaw.ca/bilbo/Mikevan.html
>
> (notice the perforated kind too)
>
> the other kind, sheet metal VW logo can be seen here:
>
> http://www.members.shaw.ca/albell/mods11.html
>
> the word is that the VW logo warps though :(
>
> Alistair
>
>
> '82 westy, diesel converted to gas in '94
> http://www.members.shaw.ca/albell/
>
>
> On 23-May-07, at 7:30 AM, Don Hanson wrote:
>
> On the sink/stove unit I have, the two burner grills seem pretty
> minimal. I think these are stock, but a lot of my small cooking
> stuff won't sit on the grilles, because there isn't enough support.
> The center 'hole' is too large.. Anyone else find this? Anyone have
> a fix that is easy? I guess I could cut a couple of wire donuts from
> some S.S. mesh or something..
> Don hanson
>
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