[tcb] Re: Airstream

  • From: Mark Sawyer <mechmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:14:16 -0700 (PDT)

That's a big duck!!!

Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:          My 19' Mallard weighs 6500 lbs.
   
    ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dan Martin 
  To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 5:48 PM
  Subject: [tcb] Re: Airstream
  

They are heavy!   Vintage:
  

  http://www.airstream.net/FAQ/FAQ_2.html
  

  New:
  

  http://www.airstream.com/product_line/travel_trailers/bambi_specs.html
  

  
  There is much talk about how to lighten them:
  

  
http://www.airstreamforums.com/forums/f46/weight-reduction-remodeling-methods-22907.html
  

  
    On Sep 25, 2006, at 5:37 PM, Sammie Smith wrote:

    Nope, as always about travel trailers I plead ignorance.  I thought all 
that shiny metal was aluminum.
  

  

  At 05:32 PM 9/25/2006, you wrote:
      Sammy    You know that the airstream is stainless steel with cast alum 
ribs . Put together aircraft style . Airstreams are 30-40 percent heavier than 
other RVs of same size .    Whatever   Terry
  

  

  







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