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Fold down couches - making a long one [message #250708] Tue, 27 May 2014 08:59 Go to next message
Galen is currently offline  Galen   United States
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I think I just slept on the fold down couches in the rear my last weekend. I'm going to build a platform bed in the back and pull the two couches out. Because my coach has been redone, it doesn't have the sofa with the bunk and straps (just a couch) , and instead of a dinette has two flex steel captains chairs on the passenger side. I have two kids and need more sleeping room anyway.

I won't have a problem building the bed in the back. What I am curious about is pulling the captains chairs (maybe using them for the driver and passenger seats replacing the originals) and using the two rear sofas to fabricate a custom length fold down couch for the passenger side. Cut and weld the frames together and recover. It seems I read this has been done before. Any ideas or lessons learned?

Thanks,
Galen


Galen Briggs New Virginia, Iowa 1978 Palm Beach
Re: Fold down couches - making a long one [message #250713 is a reply to message #250708] Tue, 27 May 2014 09:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Michael Leipold is currently offline  Michael Leipold   United States
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message chasingsummer, he modified my old flexsteel dinette this way.

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Re: Fold down couches - making a long one [message #250716 is a reply to message #250713] Tue, 27 May 2014 09:56 Go to previous message
Galen is currently offline  Galen   United States
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Thanks Michael.

Galen Briggs New Virginia, Iowa 1978 Palm Beach
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