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Re: Removing the head banger cabinets along the bed ?

Reply #25 – May 03, 2017, 09:14:35 am

Nitehawk!! NO, NO, NO--Don't say it!!! Behave myself!!  

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Re: Removing the head banger cabinets along the bed ?

Reply #26 – May 03, 2017, 10:41:42 am

OK, I'm back. Can't help myself!!
If you ride a bicycle try wearing your bike helmet--just while making the bed. Better than seeing stars in the daytime!
Before I remodeled our overhead above the dash I would hit my head EVERYTIME I was working up front around the dash (takes a lot of knocks before I learn) so I wore a thick hat while up there until I reduced the TV enclosure flush with the rest of the o'head cabinets.

One can even see the steel bracing I put up inside the cabinet to hold our 32" TV.

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Reply #27 – May 03, 2017, 02:03:30 pm

Mike,

Sounds like a done deal. It's your coach and there is no committee that has to

approve mods to it. Get the Sawzall and a sledge hammer and go to it.

Carter-

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Reply #28 – May 03, 2017, 02:09:36 pm

It's yours 'til it isn't yours. Do what ever makes you happy.
Use a chainsaw or a jackhammer or a blowtorch or a wrecking bar. Until it is the way you want something, and it belongs to you, go ahead and alter it.
When I change something it is to make the DW happy--or me, not what some stranger thinks.

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Reply #29 – May 03, 2017, 02:16:43 pm

You could think about a divorce, my DW is 5' 2" and has no problems back there. Me?, I'm 6' 2", but since I snore (loudly), I am relegated to the forward fold-out couch.

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Reply #30 – May 03, 2017, 05:32:24 pm

Shhhh Mike!! Don't give my wife any ideas!!

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Re: Removing the head banger cabinets along the bed ?

Reply #31 – May 05, 2017, 10:25:12 pm

Mike, do yourself a favor and buy an oscillating saw. The fien brand multi tool is a percsion saw, whose Patent has expired, so there are some are some cheaper Alternatives. You can easily make precise plunge cuts and the blade position can adjusted to a multitude of positions to cut in very cramped locations. With diamond blades you can use your fingers to steady and guide the cutting edge of the blades and not splinter the edges much. Blades are offset so you can almost cut flush against another surface. Totally amazing tool that you will find so many uses for around the house, in the coach or in your race and fabrication shop. Very little blade jump, kickback or chatter. Total control of the cutting edge

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Re: Removing the head banger cabinets along the bed ?

Reply #32 – May 06, 2017, 01:51:16 pm

Put painters tape where you are going

to cut, it prevents splintering the wood.

Carter-

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Re: Removing the head banger cabinets along the bed ?

Reply #33 – May 19, 2017, 04:51:40 pm

Only had a n issue once. Raised up from looking at the safe. That is the 1st time I was in the coach. That was the last time I hit my head again. Sore head equals lesson learned.
The impression in the fabric if removed, can be steamed out easy. With a wet towel, and a hot iron. Did mine in the front from the TV cabinet removal.
It also works on carpet like magic, when you move furniture.

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