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Post by mobiltec on Dec 14, 2018 17:15:54 GMT -8
I am new to the forum & recently found a 1-owner 1968 Conestoga Concord 16' camper. It came with the original bill of sale! For the most part, it is in pretty good condition & to find an older camper in my area with no hail damage is nearly unheard of. Like most older campers, there are a few water problem spots. I would like to fix it up a little, but don't want to do too much to it & keep it's original look. I will try to post some pics, if I can figure out how to. If I decide to sell it, I know people like the original look. Just wanted to introduce myself & get some ideas on what to do with this gem! I will have lots of questions in the near future.... Welcome to our little piece of paradise. Can't wait to see pics.
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Post by mobiltec on Dec 14, 2018 17:12:46 GMT -8
This is the teardrop I built for overnight trips in Alaska. I figured an Alaskan Grizzly could swallow it whole, so I always have my 12 gauge inside the camper. IMG_0720 by Bryan Port, on Flickr Very impressive. You did a beautiful job on the Teardrop.
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Post by mobiltec on Dec 14, 2018 11:00:30 GMT -8
One of my students from my on-line class sent this to me. Thought I would share it here.
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Post by mobiltec on Dec 10, 2018 19:29:49 GMT -8
thumbnail_IMG_1439 by mark gordon, on Flickr Thank you all in advance for any information on this trailer. This may very well be a "parts only" trailer. It's not popular enough to do a frame off restore unless you want a project and fall in love with it. And I could understand that. But it needs all new skin. I would only do that with a popular or very rare and desired classic. Parts? Not much there either for the era that I work on. It will cost you more to scrap the rest of the trailer than you would ever get back.
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Post by mobiltec on Dec 10, 2018 17:56:14 GMT -8
Ill see your stand up trailer and raise you one teardrop... This trailer was actually on Craig's List for $2500...
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Post by mobiltec on Dec 9, 2018 18:12:45 GMT -8
Got my plastic wood and started working on cleaning the metal up for the wings. I think that's what I'm going to do with the 59...The wood interior is rotten.
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Post by mobiltec on Dec 7, 2018 16:23:41 GMT -8
Could it have been designed to give it a finished look like a hemmed edge where a sheet is rolled over on itself and in the process making a smooth edge instead of just a unprotected cut. Danny I think it was just designed to keep potential moisture from entering the belly pan. But it's sandwiched between the bottom of the pan and the frame and the part that shows bends up over the front bottom frame board. I can see where it might help but you would have to separate the floor boards from the chassis to get a new one in there. Mine was so rotted out that I just removed it.
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Post by mobiltec on Dec 7, 2018 16:18:34 GMT -8
The funny thing about this thread is they get a notice from VTT every morning because we keep posting.
It's like the Mafia...Once you're in, you're in for life! I have never gotten a notice from this forum that anyone at all was posting. And I like the Hotel California reference. LOL...
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Post by mobiltec on Dec 7, 2018 11:13:59 GMT -8
To repair remove any sealant And sand flat. Dolley any high Spots flush especially around the holes themselves. Using automotive panel adhesive Attach an oversized patch to the Back side Of each hole. Then apply a premium body filler Like evercoat gold .Sand and prime With epoxy primer. That large of a hole being filled with bondo may not stay sealed due to the fact that aluminum expands and contracts so much with heat and cold.
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Post by mobiltec on Dec 7, 2018 11:09:45 GMT -8
The 66 Super Shasta had that also and I believe it was part of the belly pan and they just folded it up under the skin in order to prevent water leaking into the pan. It's up to you if you want to keep it or not. And if you removed it there is no reason to try to add a new piece really. I left mine out.
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Post by mobiltec on Dec 7, 2018 10:58:17 GMT -8
I believe this is a mentally troubled person who needs to seek psychiatric help. Either that or he/she is so in love with FB that we must all be evil.
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Post by mobiltec on Dec 6, 2018 12:56:09 GMT -8
I have finally learned to just keep my mouth shut "keyboard" when it come to people "restoring" campers online "like facebook groups". There is one now trying to do a Scotty wrap from the inside and insist that it can be done "he has done it before"....the curbing is all rotted too......says he has even pieced in patches in the Scotty walls before. SMH AND people are asking HIM for pointers......good Lord....I give up. Face Book.... LOL! What a waste of your precious time! And you know there are hundreds, maybe thousands of strangers who are mining your information. May as well walk around with a target on your forehead.
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Post by mobiltec on Dec 5, 2018 20:22:36 GMT -8
Great find. Looks like it's a hybrid build. Wood, Aluminum and Masonite. A trailer hand dolly would have made short work of that. But what ever works. Use what you have I always say.
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Post by mobiltec on Dec 5, 2018 8:26:00 GMT -8
Larry, I understand your sentiments concerning greed and stupidity touching almost every aspect of life, especially in our good old USA, because we see and read about it daily. Sadly, what we don't see is all the incredibly wonderful people who share this same country, who go out of their way to be kind, honest, genuine. They don't make the news or water-cooler scuttlebutt, don't need to, just keep doing what's right. I'm fortunate to live in a little burg where neighbors treat each other like friends even when they disagree about lots of things, where Christine can absent-mindedly leave her purse in shopping carts, or I can forget to pick up all my purchases, and someone I don't know will call and say "I think this belongs to you". And I think there are thousands of little burgs like mine, even in the midst of big cities where honest people are not out to "paint over the rot to make a quick buck". At least I hope so. (Results of too much morning coffee probably) Yep and I experience what you are talking about every day since I moved to this little farming community in Nevada. I'm so glad I was drawn here and will probably spend the rest of my life here. But city life is exactly as I told the story above and I just couldn't handle living and dealing with some of the stupidest people in the world any longer. So I moved and now life is good again. We are really affected by the people around us and when you can't make heads or tails of what's going on you must change your environment or get sucked into their's....
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Post by mobiltec on Dec 4, 2018 13:57:12 GMT -8
Sadly, it doesn't stop with trailers. I was in the construction industry in So Cal for a good part of my adult life. In the building boom before the giant housing crash I watched hundreds and hundreds, actually into the thousands of people do the same thing with the homes they were trying to flip. These people had no intentions of staying in a home until it was paid off. They were just in it for a quick profit. They didn't care that what they were doing was illegal and unsafe. No regard for the poor family who would be trapped in a total piece of crap after the sale. These people had no shame and no ethics what so ever. All they thought about was a huge profit.
The same thing has been happening with vehicles since the invention of the car. Throw a coat of paint on it, put some sawdust in the transmission and really heavy oil in the engine and sell it for a profit. I actually did a remodel in the offices of one dealership and I couldn't believe my ears when I overheard the things going on there. One time I was finishing up the window casing in one office and one of the mechanics walked in and said "Hey we got a mustang out there with a bad oil pump and the light is on." The sales manager told him to just pull the light bulb and forget about it.
So it's pretty much human nature that pushes these practices. People are basically dishonest and lazy. And now with the onset of instant gratification, there aren't many out there who have the desire to spend a year or more rebuilding a trailer when they can just throw a coat of putty and paint on it and call it good. It's also why our children are so stupid. They no longer have to think and they don't have to work for anything. The idiot parents buy them everything they need including their first car. They pay for their gas and insurance AND CELL PHONES of all things. That way they can be sure to text and drive at the same time. And if it weren't for seat belts and air bags they would be dying at an alarming rate. So then the stupid kids survive the inevitable crash and grow up to raise even stupider kids. The cycle goes on and we find ourselves where we are today in a totally screwed up world full of totally screwed up people trying to tell others how to live.
That's why there are so many idiots on Face Book giving bad advice. You won't find them here because they don't want to know the right way. They want to know the fast easy way. You won't find them in my classes either because they don't want to know how to do it right. They want to know how to do it fast and cheap. And when you go to a rally now more than half of the old rolling pieces of rotting junk out there are putty and paint. No imagination because their brains are mush. You can say goodbye to birchwood beauties because they have to cover up the water damage with paint. No more tiled or marmoleum floors because they can put down phony laminate wood that will last about a year. BUT IT'S CHEAP AND QUICK...
I'm proud of the hard work that I put into a trailer and I'm happy to know that it's not going to fall apart on the freeway and possibly kill someone. I'm proud of the painstaking time I put into a trailer because I know it will still be around and looking good when I'm long dead and buried. My trailers are my legacy and you can make that my epitaph.
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