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62bam · 07-23-2009, 04:36 PM

It's for when a AS is hoisted by a crane onto a freighter for trip to Europe.

Lumatic · 07-23-2009, 04:40 PM

Photoshopped ceramic cookie jar

62bam · 07-23-2009, 04:47 PM

Maybe it's a $10,000. aluminum foil dispenser!

**Kevin245** · 07-23-2009, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by purman

NO, I know what it really is!!!!!!!

That fridge cover is really hard to hold steady while installing. the PO put the handle on it to hold it in place while riveting it on to the AS...

Could be... Of course no true Southern would use such logic as long as duct tape and bailing wire exist!!! If a quality duct taping job is performed, rivets would be redundant.

slowmover · 07-23-2009, 08:17 PM

My first thought, before seeing the picture, was something otherwise ordinary that was in place to serve a radio transceiver. I saw it and I thought it was in place to keep the reefer vent cleared of a "covering". I can go on and on in this unimaginative vein . . . .

wmarsha · 07-29-2009, 12:18 PM

well, the towel rack is off the vent-anyone got an exploded view of the reefer vent? my fuel mileage just increased....

funkill · 07-29-2009, 02:05 PM

Holey Crap folks----what you all are witnessing is a rare glimpse of what could have been a magnificent piece of USA Space History. Four years ago NASA was forced to cancel several Space Shuttle Missions. One of these, such discarded missions was to deliver the Habitation Module to the ISS. It was fondly named the Silver Twinky (though the name Colbert was briefly considered). It would have served as the station's living quarters for the US resident crew(s).

Wmarsha’s twinky has a striker bar mounted to the upper deck. It would have been used to secure the twinky to a latching mechanism in the shuttle payload bay just like the robotic and inspections arms.

From Wiki: The Habitation Module, aka the Silver Twinky, was intended to be the Station's main living quarters and was constructed from a 31' 1985 Airstream Excella; complete with galley, toilet, shower and sleep gaucho's. About the size of a bus, the module was canceled after modification to pressurized its hull was complete and the striker bar installed.

Now that it's been removed, please send it to the National Air and Space Museum. Bet they would luv to have it!

Photograph of a striker bar on the robotic arm - currently in use.

Lumatic · 07-29-2009, 03:05 PM

Bug Zapper?

richie rich · 07-29-2009, 04:05 PM

It looks like the top rung of a ladder.If the rest of the ladder is inside the trailer,well that's what it is!

jeff4506 · 07-29-2009, 05:50 PM

Clearly, it's a carrying handle.

wmarsha · 07-30-2009, 12:31 PM

okay, i got up there and because i could find no exploded view of the reefer roof vent, i decided to yard the dang thang off. 10 rivets later, i found an oval raised extrusion, with 1/4 inch screen on top-along with about 1 inch of pine needles! they are bad, cuz they knit together and "thatch" a major blockage of the vent. Well, while there, I noticed a 3/4 inch diameter grommet thru the vent cover-so it appears that the "mod" was some kind of antenna mount-the grommet (and the hole in the screen) were to pass a coaxial cable through. But it is all gone now. The oval hole is about 6 inches by 16 inches and I added a single 4 inch in diameter fan to boost the chimney effect of the reefer vent. Now, my pea brain says that single fan in that big hole aint gonna do anything. So, I temporized everything in place with the plan to come back, build a shroud and mount perhaps 3 of those fans....really get a hurricane going. Andy, I agree with the floor mounting idea-also ran into that on another thread about very new trailers having such (and them being noisy), but the rm 2820 reefer that I put in doesnt leave any room in and around the louvered lower vent. so, I need to create the hurricane. Because I have a trip looming very soon-I temp'y'd up the single fan in the hopes it does something...thanks for all the cool insights-but one of the first responders was closest with the antenna idea, which was a little obvious if you thought about it, but who would'a thunk a towel rack could serve as an antenna mount...reminds me of my late dad's beer can antenna-he (W5LT) soldered a series of "808's" (amateur radio-ham-speak- for beers) cans into a "mono-pole"---'course those cans were steel, then. I don't remember if the antenna worked, but that was my dad's specialty, and he usually didn't take junk to the field days...sure wish I had that thing. Wish I had the totem pole we carved, too. but, wishing don't make it so....the pix show the hole with tape measure for scale-the vent cover, and the screen (black dot indicates where the coax passed thru...)
be cool.

markdoane · 07-30-2009, 01:18 PM

Uh-oh. Looks like your vent cover had a little accident in the center picture.

silverleeper · 07-30-2009, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by markdoane

Uh-oh. Looks like your vent cover had a little accident in the center picture.

Funny!!!

wmarsha, I think you will be surprised how well one fan helps. I put one in my lil' trailer in about the same location and it really helped the fridge stay cool. If you find you have an extra hole put a rivet in it.