How can you tell how many frames you have, by the rivets? I have a 55 FC with (I think)Duo-Therm AC that was put on there by the previous owner. Did you ever try to support the AC during travel only? Maybe a 6x6 vertically between the AC and the floor would help. Plus you could burn it in the winter for heat. By the way what does the Duo run on? 110AC and/or 12vdc? (I haven't figured how to even plug my FC in yet - the previous owner died before he could show me anything) --- RJ Dial <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reply to: RE: [VAC] Re: Roof AC NOT okay > on '59?? > Charlie can probably answer this better, but here's > what I found on 1968 trailers & earlier. > > Unless reinforced at production or by retrofit, > there is only one frame fore or aft of each vent > opening. That may not be enough to support the > weight of the AC unit and the loads induced during > road travel. Combine that with the skin distortion > caused by the clamping action between the interior > flange and shroud and the roof-top AC unit (this is > what holds the unit in place), and you can see why I > removed our late model Duo-Therm AC. > > I think if you got an AC unit that downvented at the > front of the unit and mounted it over the frame aft > of a vent, that would support the weight. (using > the opposite configuration for a vent with a forward > frame). > > The interior flange and shroud would need to be > small to not distort or flatten the crown skin > panel. I wonder if any one has found such a unit? > > RJ > '65 Caravel > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ 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.
