Removing couch

[Pete Masterson]

Street side sofa has an AquaHot heat radiator and the 12-vdc "filter" (a metal box with some large capacitors inside) under/behind it. In my coach, the heat-thing was accommodated with a 2/3 width drawer under the sofa. The filter goes against the coach wall and does not interfere with the sofa drawer.

The wire chase was not enclosed, but was "finished" with a single board covered with the gray felt "Ozite" fabric attached to the wall and left to hang over the area. Looking behind the sofa from above, you did not see that it was open to the aisle.

When I modified the interior to have filing cabinets where that sofa had been, I built a platform to accommodate both the heat device and the electrical filter. I used the Ozite board to cover the area behind the platform. When I installed the filing cabinets, Iremoved a skinny cabinet (that was virtually useless do to the impossibly narrow door) mounted between the original sofa and the "throne" cabinets that surround the driver's seat.

When installing the new sofa (in preparation of getting the coach ready for sale) I ordered a full width drawer -- which left me with the problem of what to do with the heat radiator. I created a semi-box in the position where the narrow cabinet had been removed, with a vent hole cut toward the aisle-side, with the back and side (toward the sofa) left open (to allow air to flow through) I replaced part of of the Pex tubing (conveniently, there were some copper elbows used to make a tight turn) to the radiator with slightly longer pieces, and then attached the radiator to the back (sofa) side of the throne cabinet. Once the sofa is in place, you just see the top and front of the "box" (covered in the same wood as used for the floor) and the heat blows out next to the sofa rather than from under it.

Again, I used the Ozite-covered board behind the sofa to disguise the view of the open wire-chase from above, if you should look down behind the sofa. As before the electrical filter is attached to the wall and does not project far enough to interfere with the sofa drawer.

Pete Masterson

'95 Blue Bird Wanderlodge WBDA 42

El Sobrante CA

"aeonix1@mac.com"

On Sep 20, 2009, at 8:18 AM, tcandt wrote:

We also found the wire run was unfinished behind the sofa. Ernie is making a run box and covering with carpet this weekend.

Tommy 2 Shoes McCarthy
Aguanga, CA
1995 PT 42
"Fires don't scare me. I stay far away from them."



--- In "WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com", "Ernie Ekberg" wrote:

bob i took tommy mccarthys curbside couch out and had to separate the top from the bottom ernie

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From: contrail Bob

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Date: Sun, Sep 20, 2009 02:47 AM

Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Removing couch

Hi All, We've been gone all summer and just now we're starting to work on our coach that we purchased this past July. We're thinking that we would like to take one of the couch's out and put in the recliner and table. We have two, one is about 80" long and the other is about 68" long. We're thinking that the short one on the curb side is the best one to take out. We first thought that if we took the longer one out on the street side that this would be the best but we found the heater and other things under it that would probably require more work that taking out the curb side couch. Our question is, will the couch go out the door as is or do you have to take the end's off? We purchased 10 gallon's of synthetic oil and plan on doing the oil and filter change on the engine and generator. We've been in our fifth wheel trailer in wyoming and the coach has not been out of our garage since July, we're really anxious to get it going.......Thanks, Bob&Carol 99LX Illinois.......