{"id":2576,"date":"2012-06-22T09:09:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T15:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cragkungfu.com\/cragginwagon\/?p=79"},"modified":"2015-03-31T16:41:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T16:41:58","slug":"swiveling-captains-chairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cragkungfu.com\/cragginwagon\/swiveling-captains-chairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiveling Captain’s Chairs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, to begin with the van only came with one seat, and not even a comfy or safe one at that. I figured it would be nice to be able to rotate them around when parked to sort of expand the living area a bit. A quick search on the web showed many sites selling various combinations of swiveling bases and chairs, but they were all very expensive – hundreds of dollars per piece it seemed. I set about trying to find used ones and located an RV junkyard in a small city outside Denver. They weren’t a matching set, but as we’ll likely be making or buying newer seat covers for them, I don’t really see that it matters all that much. especially with each swivel base chair combo only running $75!<\/p>\n

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The hole pattern for the mounts in these old Ford’s is peculiar to say the least. With the steel plates being as thick as they are I figured the installation would be a pain. Apparently one of the seats came out of an old Ford – I was shocked to see the holes line right up on seat 1. Not the case of course for seat 2.<\/p>\n

So, I drove the truck right into the warehouse at my job after work yesterday and began the mod. Having access to a metal fabrication shop is a nice perk of doing IT for my company! As I mentioned, the steel is thick and having an industrial caliber drill press was a huge help here.<\/p>\n

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Having used my template to determine where to add holes I drilled them out and bolted the new base in. You can see my buddy and I testing the extended living room feature out in the van with both seats installed and swiveled into relaxation mode!<\/p>\n

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Well, to begin with the van only came with one seat, and not even a comfy or safe one at that. I figured it would be nice to be able to rotate them around when parked to sort of expand the living area a bit. A quick search on the web showed many sites selling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,1,120],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-2576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trip-prep","category-uncategorized","category-van-build","tag-swivel-chairs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cragkungfu.com\/cragginwagon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMAG0506.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cragkungfu.com\/cragginwagon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cragkungfu.com\/cragginwagon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cragkungfu.com\/cragginwagon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cragkungfu.com\/cragginwagon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cragkungfu.com\/cragginwagon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cragkungfu.com\/cragginwagon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2701,"href":"https:\/\/cragkungfu.com\/cragginwagon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions\/2701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cragkungfu.com\/cragginwagon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cragkungfu.com\/cragginwagon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cragkungfu.com\/cragginwagon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cragkungfu.com\/cragginwagon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}