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Old 10-04-2005, 04:00 PM   #5
Foiled Again
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Sneerk.....Zzzzz.... Sleep

I've been sleeping on my new oval mattress for over a week. It's wunnerful, wunnerful! If you spend a lot of time in your camper, seriously consider replacing your mattress with a high quality one - either innerspring or foam. A standard innerspring bed would have cost me $311 with tax. My custom made one (longer than standard AND 4 corner cuts) cost $415 with tax. If I'd opted for high quality foam the difference between standard and custom would have been less. It's very affordable, and spread over 10 - 15 years useful life, it's dirt cheap. If you consider the safety factor of a good night's sleep for the Walmart boondock, it could save your A/S or your life.

I didn't even check but I'd also bet that even an Aero Bed would have been more comfortable than the original mattress.

How good is the new one? Well I fell asleep reading a book with half of a cup of tea in my hand. When I woke up 2 hours later it was still there, not tipped over because I'd hardly moved I was so comfortable. And my stabilizer jacks were UP. I'm not going to take any more beverages to bed though - don't want to push my luck.
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Dinette Modification

Spent about 15 minutes lying on the floor looking at my dinette from the bottom up. (NOT alcohol related - don't go there Vern.) The dinette legs wrap around the circuit breaker box and in fact form the box. I can see how to remove the legs, and it wouldn't be a huge deal to have a new box fabricated out of aluminum. The side of the dinette next to the wall is simply supported by small "L" brackets under the seat, so turning the seat would involve having a curved bracket made to support the portion of the seat that would now be above the wheel well. I've figured out how to do that. The main weight of the seat would rest on the wheel well, so I could just use a piece of 2"x4" about 15 inches long, cut the top side to fit the bottom contour of the seat and lay it on the wheel well, "L" bracketing it on each side to the outside wall. I could just glue this to the bottom of the seat. One small problem is that there's a receptacle on the wall about 3 inches above the wheel well. The seat would cover this and make it inaccessable, but I could run a power strip from this outlet to the aft edge of the sofa and just velcro it to the wall or put it on the floor. Moving the whole dinette forward about 3 inches begins to look simpler.

Perhaps I'll call the factory first. Andy at Inland, your opinion?

Tin Lizzie
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