[tcb] Re: Right Tires for a Splittie? Also for Sammie, Wood Paneling

  • From: "Denis" <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 19:01:57 -0500

You people don't seem to get it. It is BALTIC! I don't know how I woke up this 
morning in some kind of Maoist/Soviet appeasement country where we don't care 
if they just march on in here with their Godless Socialist state. People, we 
are this close (holding up my fingers centimeters apart) from having big 
missile parades down Main Street, ALL HAIL MAX AND LENIN AND CHAIRMAN MAO! 
Baltic is not Russian or Chinese Dammit! It is Baltic! I do not want to go to a 
VW show and put my head into a Westy camper and smell BORSHT or KUNG PAO 
CHICKEN! I want to smell GERMANY! Well, at least LATVIA!!!



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dan Martin 
  To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 5:47 PM
  Subject: [tcb] Re: Right Tires for a Splittie? Also for Sammie, Wood Paneling


  Last time I checked (at least 1 year ago) they carried it here as well:
  http://www.houstonhardwoods.com
  They are about 300 yards from my shop.

  Sent from my iPod

  On May 14, 2009, at 5:01 PM, Mark Jenkins <marktts88@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


    These people have the wood you need , right outside of downtown Houston in 
the Heights and open Sat. til 12 

    We have the following:

    3mm 5' x 5' Russian Birch BB/CP  Plywood  @ $14.95 each


    Pete
    Clark's Hardwood Lumber Company
    713-862-6628



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    From: "mechmark@xxxxxxxxxxx" <mechmark@xxxxxxxxxxx>
    To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 10:39:31 PM
    Subject: [tcb] Re: Right Tires for a Splittie? Also for Sammie, Wood 
Paneling


    There is a place here in Houston that has the correct Baltic birch that 
comes in oversized 5 x 8 sheets. I can't remember the name of the place but 
Mark J. knows the name and location. I will ask him tomorrow.




    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Fred McDonald" <texasbluebus@xxxxxxxxx>
    To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 9:38:26 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
    Subject: [tcb] Re: Right Tires for a Splittie? Also for Sammie, Wood 
Paneling



    Thanks for the tire info.  I have 165/15s on the bus now, that's the size 
the bus had when I purchased it.
    If I move up to a 185 tire, what width should I consider, 75, 70 or even a 
60?
    I still have a stock 1600 single port motor.

    The panels I'm trying to replace are 1/8" but I can't seem to find any.
    I've gone to Home Depot and Lowes and nether have it and don't care to find 
it.
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: sammie smith 
      To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
      Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 7:16 PM
      Subject: [tcb] Re: Right Tires for a Splittie? Also for Sammie, Wood 
Paneling


            Fred:  The from the factory original size is bias ply 6:40x15 which 
are available from Coker in TN and they are some where around $100+ each.  
Great for looking pure stock, but since you are not going stock wheels I would 
go with a metric size that comes as close to the size of the 6:40/15 as 
possible.  If memory serves the diameter of a stock original tire is 27.1 
inches.  What you are going to find close is somewhere between 185 and 205 in 
metric radial sizes.  A 185x15 would come closest but I don't think anyone 
makes them anymore.  165/15 will work but they are much smaller than stock.

            As to the wood paneling:  Stock came with 1/8" birch which can be 
purchased in most lumber yards and maybe even someplace like Lowes or Home 
Depot.  If you really want to be anal retentive; the correct wood is baltic 
birch 1/8" but you are going to have to find some specialty wood products 
company to find some.  I am not a wood expert and I really don't know what the 
difference is between baltic birch and regular old birch.  I used regular old 
birch 1/8" like the cabinet guys use and it looks just like the original birch 
that is in there.  I used a bit of stain that gave it the same color as the 
original and varnished over that.

            --- On Wed, 5/13/09, Fred McDonald <texasbluebus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


              From: Fred McDonald <texasbluebus@xxxxxxxxx>
              Subject: [tcb] Right Tires for a Splittie? Also for Sammie, Wood 
Paneling
              To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
              Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 6:55 PM


              What are the correct size tires for a split window bus with 15" 
wheels?
              What brands would you recommend?

              Sammie,
              What type of wood paneling did you use for your Westie?
              How thick was it?
              Where did you get it?

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