Photo of folding steps please

[SmokelessJoe]

I suspect that a second fold down step is missing on my 1976 ARGOSY.



I can’t figure out how to configure a new one.

Can somebody please post a photo so that I can figure out how to build one?

Many thanks,


Sergei

Contemporizing 1976 Argosy D - opinions please

[arodriguez60]

here is a picture and link from out of doors mart Airstream Double Step

[bhayden]

Sergei, the Argosy 24 only had a single step. It can be a bit tall if you end up with a slope away from the door. Made worse by the fact that such a campground would require blocks under the curb side wheels and thereby raising that side of the trailer. A couple of yellow blocks and you've got a pretty big step.

Carrying a small step is easy and serves lots of other useful purposes; putting bikes up on the rack of the van, opening the awning, etc. We carry a tool box that doubles as a step stool. We have another tool box we keep in the house that can be used as a step but the top also comes of and can be used separately as a step. Might buy another or start taking that one camping. I'd feel OK leaving a plastic step stool out when I'm not watching it but I worry sometimes about the tools.

[Inland RV Center, In]

Originally Posted by SmokelessJoe

I suspect that a second fold down step is missing on my 1976 ARGOSY.

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I can’t figure out how to configure a new one.

Can somebody please post a photo so that I can figure out how to build one?

Many thanks,


Sergei

Contemporizing 1976 Argosy D - opinions please

Airstream has the correct entension for your footstep.

They are not cheap, but they are available, so that you have a "double footstep" as shown in the photo.

Andy

[RBolton]

Originally Posted by arodriguez60

here is a picture and link from out of doors mart Airstream Double Step

OUCH! I smashed my finger just looking at the picture.

[SmokelessJoe]

Thanks Rodriguez, Bernie and Andy.

The bolt holes on my step make me think another step either once was or can be there.

I might be able to have somebody copy the aluminum step in steel but it will probably cost as much as buying the parts from Jackson Center. I’ll call Ohio to se how much.

A aluminum stool would be cool, especially if it’s like the ones VIA here and AMTRAK in the States use.

Here’s Ching Mei, once arriving at a nearby train station to visit the trailer:



Sergei

[DavidsonOverlander]

Originally Posted by SmokelessJoe

I suspect that a second fold down step is missing on my 1976 ARGOSY.
Sergei

Sergei,
Is your step aluminum or steel?

[SmokelessJoe]

Grant,

Steel.

Maybe, when I go home this weekend, I can make a print of the exploded parts that Aage sent us and have Wiltsie estimate what it would cost to biuld an extension.

Is yours steel too? I can't remember.

Perhaps one of us should phone JC for a price as well. Buying might be cheaper than building.

Sergei