1968 Holiday Vacationer

You might rescue the stove; people are always looking for a stove...

Also, keep everything until you are done. Some of the old parts are impossible to replace.

Good luck on your build.

Slider, what are the wet bath components? I am sure someone might be interested in them if they are reusable. I am- but I have no idea where you are located.

Did a little work on the camper today, not much but I got in a couple hours. I got windows out of one side and started taking off some of the other trim pieces.




Doesn’t seem like the best build design. There is simply a piece of aluminum that fits between the AL under the rear window and the part that goes down to the bottom. There is a lip somewhat "protecting" the seam, but mostly relying on caulk. I will come up with something different as I build it back. No wonder, the wood was so rotted in the back.







Took these pieces off. The side seams are much better than the one under the rear window, the top piece overlaps the bottom and that seam is hidden under these trim pieces. 



This is what's left of what I am assuming 45 years ago was wood, as I pulled the piece (pictured above) out some, the chips all fell out. There was no wood left, just mud. 




Pretty much all I got done today, I may take a vacation day sometime in the next couple weeks and just take that day to get the skin off.

A few more hours today. Took out what seems like a couple hundred screws



Got the rest of the windows out and the rest of the trim pieces. 



Next I'll finish cleaning up the residual of the butyl tape. Then off with the skin.

Here's a shot of the part I have stripped with Citristrip, probably need to do another coat but its looking pretty good. 

Almost done stripping it. One more coat should do it

You mentioned earlier about getting the right bit for the screws...might I suggest just replacing the screws? Most cases, it would be a #6 or maybe a #8 screw, and a Phillips or even hex head woudl be easier to work with.

www.boltdepot.com/Sheet_metal_screws.aspx?nv=l

Finally after more than a month I got to do some work on the camper.

Work and daughter's sports have been keeping me on the road but hard to complain about either of those....

Anyway, ready to pull some skin.

Wow, this is going to be lots of work (about 350 screws all covered in white tar).



It took about 1.5 mins to scrape the gunk off/around each screw, then about 1.5 secs to take them out. At least they're not rusted up clutch head screws.





Got one side done tonight and calling it quits for now. Again, not a hard task but very tedious.

Here's a shot of what the top and sides look like under the edge cap. I think when I replace roof, I am going to have the top overlap the sides and fold it down some for added water protection. (Then cover all with edge caps of course).