I assume these are for the bunks? How do they work and why do I only have the right angle brackets on the driver side and not the passenger side? The bolts are replicated there, the same for both sides!
Just found out on HERE that its a Danbury top on a 73 Devon. Don't think it's homebrew, even the original headliner was trimmed around them correctly. Looked factory to me.
I know the square slots with the dome head covers are for the locking struts which drop down when the roof is extended. It's the black bars and corner brackets which I think may be for the bunks. Don't have the bunks tho so cannot confirm.
The front U brackets are definitely danbury, the bunk hooks are devon(chrome bit in left of last pic). The litle round posts look like they are for locking the roof down. The other bits look like they are added to take the Devon bunk poles without having to fix to the angle iron. You sure it's a Devon as Danbury did that colour bellows and the lid is Danbury.
I'm sure about the U bracket because I have them myself. The fibreglass top is danbury, again I have one and the canvass and ally strips are the same. The chrome bits I'm not 100% but I have seen them somewhere. I had a Devon lid and the bunks sat on bits like that at the narrow end and hooked on the below the hinge mechanism the other end. The Danbury bunks on mine have slots cut into the angle iron to locate the bunks. You do seem to have a bit of a mixture. Where do your spring struts attach? EDIT just remembered where I have seen that chrome bit. It's fixed to the underside of my roof and a toggle hooks into it to hold my lid down. The toggle is fixed to the angle iron between your 2 little posts.
Looks all Danbury to me. The two captive bolt holes at each end should have a bunk bracket each end for the static pole of the hammock this is a small tombstone shaped flat plate with a tube welded on the front. The smaller bunk pole fits inside this. The hammock then stretches across to a second pole which has a small length of tube welded each end at 90 deg to the bunk/hammock pole and this just slots onto the pin on the roof. Bellows is standard looking Danbury and it will have drop down rods when the roof is up located into two brackets on the roof of the van. The strap down points are the silver things with the screw each end are for the roof straps there are corresponding ones on the roof. Standard item is a leather buckled strap.
Hi, I had to do a bit of research to find out what roof mine should of had as it had been binned by he last owner and it turned out to be a Danbury, so I can assure you its a danbury, the brackets on the top of the angle iron adjacent to the posts are for the roof supports when its elevated they drop down from the roof and are located inside the bracket, the chrome parts in the last picture are for holding the roof down in transit with straps, these should have corresponding brackets on the inside of the roof, as far as i know and looking at the parts I have the correct bunks are supported by plastic cups attached to the inside of the angle iron, but I still have no idea what the posts are for. Hope some of that helps, unfortunatley I don't have any pictures as mines sitting on the garage roof until I get to the point of fitting it. EDIT: Just Dicky's post and the little post for supporting the bunks sounds more like it rather than the plastic cups I have.
I do have at least one pair of the outer brackets for the bunks somewhere. If I recall i did have some made for the pins but used drilled flat plate welded to the hammock tube. (used steam tube - they were a bit heavy!
Dicky what size steam tube did you use a I was going to make some but wasn't sure what size to use, 0.75", 1" or bigger?
Anyone fancy taking some shots of these tubes and various fixings so I can see what I need to make when the time comes. My email is ldarkes@yahoo.co.uk if anyone can help out sometime. Dimensions of the bunk fabrics would be good too. Cheers Lyn
