| Author | Message | ||
| doug yes (Dougg)
Registered Member Username: Dougg Post Number: 118 Registered: 1-2007 Posted From: 174.131.44.50 Rating: N/A |
I need to figure out how to get a bunk to lower down from the ceiling. Are there any stock brackets available for that? | ||
| Debbie and Joe Cannarozzi (Joe_camper)
Registered Member Username: Joe_camper Post Number: 209 Registered: 10-2006 Posted From: 99.23.129.212 Rating: N/A |
Experiment with some cardboard to get the desired results. Somewhere in the archives there is a post on this. I put that link up for the couch that converted into bunks. The pullman train cars had pull down from the ceiling bunks. I think you could fashion something strong and inexpensive. If you took 2 sizzors mechanisms for a car door window and attatched them one to each end of a sheet of plywood stiffened up to support a body. Just a thought. I do not know how strong they are or how much travel they have. But maybe. It could be powered! LOL We have a bunk above the cockpit that folds up. I could make photos. | ||
| Cory hart (Chart1)
Registered Member Username: Chart1 Post Number: 16 Registered: 1-2010 Posted From: 98.172.60.235  Rating: N/A |
Here is another way to do it. Though it is not from the ceiling it saves alot of space. http://www.wallbedsbywilding.com/wilding-bunk-bed.php | ||
| Ralph Peters (Ralph7)
Registered Member Username: Ralph7 Post Number: 101 Registered: 3-2004 Posted From: 75.244.122.50 Rating: N/A |
My '79 Winabagle has a drop down bed, also a company that built a class A called Treck made units that had drop down beds. Try to find the Treck first cause I think their beds drop down lower than the Winnie,s to get some ideas. | ||
| RJ Long (Rjlong)
Registered Member Username: Rjlong Post Number: 1677 Registered: 12-2000 Posted From: 67.182.48.162  Rating: N/A |
Doug - The '73 - '78 GMC Motorhomes came with a couch that converts to bunk beds. Uses, literally, seat belts to suspend the outer edge of the upper bunks. Would something like that work for you? FWIW & HTH. . .  | ||
| marvin pack (Gomer)
Registered Member Username: Gomer Post Number: 804 Registered: 3-2007 Posted From: 71.53.153.91  Rating: N/A |
Cory; That is a great looking bunk bed set-up. Doug; check around for surplus rv's or look in salvage yards and you may find something there. Gomer | ||
| David Evans (Dmd)
Registered Member Username: Dmd Post Number: 426 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 173.68.141.245  Rating: N/A |
Doug, George Myers did a couple of articles on drop down beds, one type is called a drop link, another is called a Kerwain. Both use the back of a settee to unfold and then lift up and out then hang from the ceiling. Then there is the pullman that folds up into or against the ceiling. I just dug thru and it is in the Dec 07 bus conversions magazine. Some of the high end coach co. used to do this. try a google search. | ||
| eabare (Eabare)
Registered Member Username: Eabare Post Number: 1 Registered: 4-2008 Posted From: 64.178.250.179 Rating: N/A |
A tip. I rebuilt a avion truck camper with a rotten bed deck. A 3/4 inch sheet of plywood will bend if you put any weight on it. What Avion did was to use 1/4 plywood. They used one piece for the bottom and then cut 2inch strips and glued and screwed a border all of the way around and glued and screwed the strips one foot apart inside the border. Then glue and screw a top piece on top of the strips. For this to bend it will have to compress the top layer and streach the bottom layer. I was shocked at how strong it was. I put it across two saw horses and jumped my 230 pounds on it and it didn't move. Would work great for a suspended bed. | ||
| FAST FRED (Fast_fred)
Registered Member Username: Fast_fred Post Number: 1089 Registered: 10-2006 Posted From: 66.82.9.80  Rating: N/A |
Check any basic sail boat book, probably 40 forms of removable folding or converting bunks. "Pipe Berths" is the nautical term. The pitch (distance between bunks ) was as low as 18 inches on submarines if you need to really pack in a crowd. Simplest is the OLD navy method , hammocks strung at night , struck when not in use. FF | ||
| don goldsmith (Bottomacher)
Registered Member Username: Bottomacher Post Number: 269 Registered: 12-2000 Posted From: 72.152.140.100 Rating: |
When I was in school years ago I made several sofas for friends. I used a hollow core interior door, attached four legs at the corners, and upholstered a couple of cushions. Even with three people on board, I never had one break. Very cheap and lightweight; I don't see why they wouldn't work for bunk platforms. | ||
| FAST FRED (Fast_fred)
Registered Member Username: Fast_fred Post Number: 1092 Registered: 10-2006 Posted From: 66.82.9.57 Rating: N/A |
I don't see why they wouldn't work for bunk platforms. Because sitting on a chunk of plywood with a hunk of foam on it is far different from sleeping on a plywood slab. FF | ||
| don goldsmith (Bottomacher)
Registered Member Username: Bottomacher Post Number: 270 Registered: 12-2000 Posted From: 72.152.140.100 Rating: N/A |
I assume I'm missing something here... |
