Thanks Terry, my wife put the hanging strips as well, now we only open the windows about 3 inches...I'm pretty paranoid about breaking the linkage. Luckily a bag of spare parts came with the trailer! G.S. At 10:08 PM 4/28/01 -0600, you wrote: >Gerald Shippen, > >Now that you've read Marc's caveat, here is one that ALMOST applies to you. It applies to all of us >who own a 1967 (probably other years, too). > >The elbow part of the arm that enables the window to open or close when the inside handle is rotated >- is made of pot metal. You bump the window, you break the elbow. The window corners are just as >"weapon like" and hurt just as much as those in a 1963. > >The problem with broken elbows is I cnly find replacements by being a scavenger - my least favorite >way to find replacement parts. I'm still searching for a spare. If I don't bump it, a slight breeze >will catch it just right - and break it. My fancy little strips of cloth hanging down so I wont't >bump it won't do any good if a sudden breeze comes my way. > >Terry >1963 22' Flying Cloud >1967 22' Safari >======================== >>Gerald: >>The thing you REALLY have to look out for is whacking your head on the >>outside window when it's open. The newer ones have nice round corners, but >>my '63 has square "weapon like" corners. Oooo, do they hurt when you hit >>'em! >> >>MARC WEIMER >>Punxsutawney, PA - Home of the Groundhog >>#15767 >>1963 Globe Trotter >>1971 Globe Trotter >>http://users.penn.com/~mweimer/weimer.html >> >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Gerald or Donna Shippen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: "Multiple recipients of VACList" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 1:14 PM >>Subject: [VAC] Re: Headroom Question >> >> >>> Marc, the first few months of ownership were quite painful for me as >>> well...I whacked my head on every cubbard corner and window on the thing! >>> >>> Gerald Shippen, 65' Overlander >>> >> > > > > >To unsubscribe or to change to a daily Digest, please go to >http://www.airstream.net/vaclist/listoffice.html > >If replying back to this message, please delete all the unnecessary original >text from your reply. > > > To unsubscribe or to change to a daily Digest, please go to http://www.airstream.net/vaclist/listoffice.html If replying back to this message, please delete all the unnecessary original text from your reply.
