Sleepers " Does Bentz have a web site"?
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RE: Sleepers
I don't have a link to photos but do have this unit on my Sterling. I'll try to paint a verbal picture for you. Across the back wall is a bunk 48x74 that folds up against the back wall and creates a dinette when it folds. On the passenger side there is a storage cabinet behind the dinette seat as well as a vertical cabinet from it up to the cabinets around the perimeter of the ceiling. There are picture windows in the walls on each end of the bunk.
Sitting on the bunk you have two cabinets to your left between bunk and driver's seat. The left side is a hanging clothes closet and the right side is a 4 shelf cabinet I use for my pantry. Above them are two cabinets about a foot high so you have floor to ceiling cabinets on that side.
To your right between bunk and passenger seat you have a cabinet that's normal counter top high. It has a refrigerator beneath it on the bunk side with a window above that. Immediately behind the passenger seat is a sink with storage cabinet below. Suspended from the ceiling are a continuation of the cabinets circling the driver side and back walls. In the passenger side of these you have the microwave and tv/dvd unit. There are two double tube flourescent fixtures in the ceiling and one single tube under the cabinet near the sink.
There are 3 110 outlets. One is on the wall between the windows on the passenger side, one below the bunk on the driver's side and one in the control panel for lights etc. at the head of the bed. The inverter controls are also at the head of the bed.
It is an excellent overall unit. There are a few things that could be changed to take it even closer to perfection. The cabinets at the foot of the bed should be moved to the head of the bed. That would take away a gap that can't be insulated well from the outside door to the underbed storage area. I'd much rather have that gap at my feet which are under covers than the top of my head that isn't. And before it's suggested, it won't work to just turn around in the bed because then the tv/dvd is in a cabinet above your head where you can't watch it while in bed.
The privacy curtains need magnetic closures not velcro. Magnetic are easier to fasten smoothly and also draw themselves together whereas you have to work with the velcro to get it closed smoothly and evenly. The privacy curtains also need to be fastened entirely to the side walls so when you close them you don't leave gaps for cold to infiltrate.
The sink and refrigerator should be swapped so the sink is easier to get to as well as allowing you to put something on the countertop and not block the window doing so.
The window curtains for the 3 sleeper windows need snaps part way up. That would let you raise the lower portion just enough to expose the screened openable portion of the window for ventilation without letting people look in too much. They modified one of my curtains with snaps at the top but that rolls the curtain up too far and leaves area exposed that needn't be. I want the breeze but not people being able to look in.
All in all it's a fantastic sleeper. The changes I've mentioned are all small things and as is this is great. I just mentioned things I believe could make a little improvement on a great product. I hope this helps some.
Leo
truck 4958
Support the entire Constitution, not just the parts you like.
I don't have a link to photos but do have this unit on my Sterling. I'll try to paint a verbal picture for you. Across the back wall is a bunk 48x74 that folds up against the back wall and creates a dinette when it folds. On the passenger side there is a storage cabinet behind the dinette seat as well as a vertical cabinet from it up to the cabinets around the perimeter of the ceiling. There are picture windows in the walls on each end of the bunk.
Sitting on the bunk you have two cabinets to your left between bunk and driver's seat. The left side is a hanging clothes closet and the right side is a 4 shelf cabinet I use for my pantry. Above them are two cabinets about a foot high so you have floor to ceiling cabinets on that side.
To your right between bunk and passenger seat you have a cabinet that's normal counter top high. It has a refrigerator beneath it on the bunk side with a window above that. Immediately behind the passenger seat is a sink with storage cabinet below. Suspended from the ceiling are a continuation of the cabinets circling the driver side and back walls. In the passenger side of these you have the microwave and tv/dvd unit. There are two double tube flourescent fixtures in the ceiling and one single tube under the cabinet near the sink.
There are 3 110 outlets. One is on the wall between the windows on the passenger side, one below the bunk on the driver's side and one in the control panel for lights etc. at the head of the bed. The inverter controls are also at the head of the bed.
It is an excellent overall unit. There are a few things that could be changed to take it even closer to perfection. The cabinets at the foot of the bed should be moved to the head of the bed. That would take away a gap that can't be insulated well from the outside door to the underbed storage area. I'd much rather have that gap at my feet which are under covers than the top of my head that isn't. And before it's suggested, it won't work to just turn around in the bed because then the tv/dvd is in a cabinet above your head where you can't watch it while in bed.
The privacy curtains need magnetic closures not velcro. Magnetic are easier to fasten smoothly and also draw themselves together whereas you have to work with the velcro to get it closed smoothly and evenly. The privacy curtains also need to be fastened entirely to the side walls so when you close them you don't leave gaps for cold to infiltrate.
The sink and refrigerator should be swapped so the sink is easier to get to as well as allowing you to put something on the countertop and not block the window doing so.
The window curtains for the 3 sleeper windows need snaps part way up. That would let you raise the lower portion just enough to expose the screened openable portion of the window for ventilation without letting people look in too much. They modified one of my curtains with snaps at the top but that rolls the curtain up too far and leaves area exposed that needn't be. I want the breeze but not people being able to look in.
All in all it's a fantastic sleeper. The changes I've mentioned are all small things and as is this is great. I just mentioned things I believe could make a little improvement on a great product. I hope this helps some.
Leo
truck 4958
Support the entire Constitution, not just the parts you like.
RE: Sleepers
Okay thanks guys, I noticed that it said they were in business since 93 but didnt have a web site....must have been the Amish influence around the shop..Ha.
sounds nice to me.
We are going to the Truck Show at the end of the month so I'm sure we can make a choice after our feet fall off.
Dukesadog
(Neptune Beach)
Florida.
Okay thanks guys, I noticed that it said they were in business since 93 but didnt have a web site....must have been the Amish influence around the shop..Ha.
sounds nice to me.
We are going to the Truck Show at the end of the month so I'm sure we can make a choice after our feet fall off.
Dukesadog
(Neptune Beach)
Florida.
RE: Sleepers
A search today still does not show up a Web Site. I know these people are very Computer savy.
Mr Richard Bentz had me in his office,and showed me all the really neat computer devices he has that mainly deal with his failing eyesight.He has of course turned the running of the business to his very capable son Kieth.
They run a very tight ship and I am sure the have their hands full with the MATS show coming up.
I am sure when they do get a web site it will be first class.
A search today still does not show up a Web Site. I know these people are very Computer savy.
Mr Richard Bentz had me in his office,and showed me all the really neat computer devices he has that mainly deal with his failing eyesight.He has of course turned the running of the business to his very capable son Kieth.
They run a very tight ship and I am sure the have their hands full with the MATS show coming up.
I am sure when they do get a web site it will be first class.
Jack Jackson
Expert Expediter
rollingstock
Expert Expediter
RE: Sleepers
I am glad to see Bentz get thier site up (at least a message that it will be in April). I called them and they are most helpful. In the mean time, try Phoenix.net. They are a conversion company in Knoxville, TN. They have an expediter package (photos) of a sprinter.
I am glad to see Bentz get thier site up (at least a message that it will be in April). I called them and they are most helpful. In the mean time, try Phoenix.net. They are a conversion company in Knoxville, TN. They have an expediter package (photos) of a sprinter.
rollingstock
Expert Expediter
RE: Sleepers
Sorry,
The site is Phoenixconversions.net
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Sorry,
The site is Phoenixconversions.net
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