a few quick BB questions
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04-02-2006, 12:49
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a few quick BB questions
--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "George Witt"
<mrdonut12@...> wrote: > > --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "birdshill123" > > > > > Bruce, > You just really don't understand overkill, do you? :o) > I swear, some of the Blue Bird Engineers must have worked on the > space shuttle, they have so many backup systems. > If you have 3 and lose one, it's not a trip-interrupting event. > You also get to have separate temperature controls for different > areas. > Mine has the motor driven generator, I took it out and put in a > Xantex invertor/charger. The motor driven unit was the best > technology available at the time. Many owners update things with that > in mind on the updates, going to the best available when the update is > done. > Blue Bird's engineering motto was: If some is good, more is > better. ;o) > My '81 is still an engineering marvel 25 years later and has many > features even new "other brands" don't have. > We had a little get-together here and had 5 Birds show up. We > all gave tours of our coaches and wowed the group with the cool > features each one had. It's just amazing to see what they put in > these things. > The one thing that stands out to me from a design standpoint is > that it all makes sense and whoever designed these things must have > used them a lot to come up with the neat ideas they had. > One of my favorites is the ladder to the roof. The top bars go > over 5 feet onto the roof. This lets you get horizontal safely before > you hang one leg down searching for that first step on the ladder. > Every other ladder I've seen makes you try to find that step > while precariously perched almost upright with little to hang onto. > The more Birds you look at, the more awed you'll be by the design. > > George Witt > 81 FC 35 > Lincoln, Nebraska > > > > Why do the older FC's have a 12.5 KW generator? Our Bounder DP has a > > 7.5 and it sure seems adequate. Why do they use the powerline gen. as > > well? Did all the FC's use the motor driven gen. or was it an option? > > Why do many BB's have 3 A/C's? Most coaches use 2 and I have never > > needed more. I just know that BB had a good reason for more. > > > > Thanks: Bruce > > Question? why did they install a telephone in the bathroom? Was it in case the door got jamed and you couldn't open it from the inside? Jon Lechich 1978 Wanderlodge > |
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a few quick BB questions - George Witt - 04-02-2006, 12:41
a few quick BB questions - Jon - 04-02-2006 12:49
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