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Date:         Sun, 18 May 2008 07:21:17 -0700
Reply-To:     Mike Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mike Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: De-chromify windows?
In-Reply-To:  <cf3.32074de1.3561530a@aol.com>
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'bout time to wiki this subject. As Frank writes, it /has/ been covered
over and over and over. In fact when I first got Mellow Yellow I asked the
same question. If anyone cares to write a three-line sentence on the
subject I'll post it. If no one has the time I'll do it myself. I will
write that the strips can be pulled with no evil side effects.*


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* If anyone has any real, not anecdotal, experience of the otherwise sort,
please advise. Don't bother saying that "the windows will leak," or
"they'll blow out at freeway speeds," unless you had either happen to you
or someone you personally know.


--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR






On 5/18/2008 2:38 AM Frank Condelli wrote:


> In a message dated 17/05/2008 3:44:41 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM writes:
>
> On a  different topic:  I notice that this page says, regarding the
> chrome  strips inside the side & front window seals: "Don't pull them
> out, your  windows will be loose and the seals will leak as they keep
> tension on the  seals to keep them snug. "
>
> I thought I had read elsewhere that you  could pull out the chrome
> plastic strips without worry.   Anyone  care to comment?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Sorry for the previous  UNFINISHED message.
>
>        This is one of those subjects  that has been covered adnauseum.  LOOK
> in the archives.  I have been  driving my Van for 16 years, 525,000 km,
> without those stupid chrome wanna  be window DECORATION strips and no leaks and no
> windows have ever fallen  out.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Frank  Condelli
> Almonte, Ontario, Canada
> '87 Westy & Lionel Trains (_Collection for sale_
> (http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/trainsal.htm) )
> _Frank Condelli &  Associates_ (http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/busindex.html)
> - Vanagon/Vanagon Westfalia Service in the Ottawa Valley
> _Vanagon Stainless Steel Exhaust  Systems_
> (http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/exhaust.htm)
> _BusFusion_ (http://members.aol.com/BusFusion/bfhome.htm)  a VW Camper
> camping event, Almonte, ON, June12 ~ 15,  2008
>
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