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  • Re: Engine Cover Woes (74)

    David Schwarze · Thu, 18 Apr 1996 14:31:09 -0500 (CDT) · Mailing-list archive

    Craig Standley writes: > > My advice to anyone with an older bus is to check the hinge *before* it > breaks, because it will be much...

  • Re: Lockable Cover for the Westy Luggage Rack

    Larry Hamm · Fri, 14 Apr 2000 23:58:08 -0600 · Mailing-list archive

    ...It's simply a two piece cover, hinged in the middle (piano hinge parallel to the tires), with a cam lock on each end...

  • Re: bug o' rama report

    · Tue, 28 May 1996 16:17:00 -0400 · Mailing-list archive

    ...BD firetrucks have piano hinges on the deck lid and hatch in the back. sounds like you had fun clara

  • Barndoor Page Update

    Thom Fitzpatrick · Wed, 13 Mar 1996 19:53:22 -0800 · Mailing-list archive

    ...A picture of Eric S's piano-hinge vent-wing- '52 and earlier-only bit, something you don't see very often, if at...

  • Re: bug o' rama report

    Thom Fitzpatrick · Tue, 28 May 1996 13:58:27 -0700 (PDT) · Mailing-list archive

    ...BD firetrucks have piano hinges on the > deck lid and hatch in the back. Small engine lid, barndoor nose, ambulance hatch. Thom -- > Lawyers do...

  • Re: Drive side swivel seat

    · Fri, 13 Feb 2015 20:04:22 -0500 · Mailing-list archive

    ...Any thoughts of what I should do? Dennis cut the welds to the bottom swival plate and weld a piano hinge down the one...

  • Re: For the Newbies - Vanagon secrets revealed- under front seat

    Mike Collum · Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:39:50 -0400 · Mailing-list archive

    One "Could" cut all the way down then, using a piano hinge, make a door for the opening which could be locked with desk...

  • Re: For the Newbies - Vanagon secrets revealed- under front seat

    Frank Condelli · Fri, 1 Sep 2006 07:23:23 EDT · Mailing-list archive

    ...One "Could" cut all the way down then, using a piano hinge, make a door for the opening which could be locked with desk...

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  • Piano Hinge

    Slang term for the vent wing windows on 1952 and earlier Buses, characterized by their hinge design.

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