mobiltec
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Post by mobiltec on Jan 15, 2014 13:10:57 GMT -8
Aye, Mobiltec! Port and Starboard, Fore and Aft, overhead and deck, and let's not forget those birch bulkheads we love so much! We already call the food prep area the galley, and the place where the Porta Potti lives is the head. Nautical nomenclature seems appropros in this setting, does it not? Yes it seems to fit. It was a combination of air craft manufacturers and boat manufacturers who retooled for the booming trailer fad that got it's real incentive after WWII. The Forester was built by people who normally built boats in the summer. They needed something to fill in the winter so they built trailers indoors.
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Post by cowcharge on Feb 3, 2014 19:05:55 GMT -8
Every ceiling panel I pulled had a pile of little aluminum curlicues on it that would fall everywhere. Hundreds and hundreds of them. Anyone else run into those?
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Post by vikx on Feb 3, 2014 23:34:19 GMT -8
Yeah on the curlicues... they seem to be debris from routing the skins.
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Post by mobiltec on Feb 4, 2014 19:36:08 GMT -8
Yep the little aluminum pellets are from routing. I'm loving my router again now that I found out the proper way to use it.
I have found this in one Shasta so far and now again in this 57 Westerner. The street side wall was mounted on to the main frame one inch lower than the curb side wall. Now go figure that one out. This is done at the factory folks.
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Post by shastajeff on Mar 2, 2014 16:05:22 GMT -8
Here's one goof that kinda drives me crazy. Note the lines on the drawers don't line up with the lines on the cabinet.
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Post by Hamlet on Mar 2, 2014 17:50:14 GMT -8
Here's one goof that kinda drives me crazy. Note the lines on the drawers don't line up with the lines on the cabinet. Sorta like making plaids match when sewing a shirt.
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Post by SusieQ on Mar 2, 2014 18:39:05 GMT -8
Hamlet, that's exactly what the seamstress in me was thinking!!!!
Then I looked to see if it made any kind of pattern. That's the OCD in me.
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Post by vikx on Mar 2, 2014 22:32:13 GMT -8
No logical pattern. LOL.
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Post by SusieQ on Mar 8, 2014 15:15:47 GMT -8
I'm really, really mad at whomever cut out the top skin on the street side of my trailer as well as whomever put it on!!! Apparently, their saw went wild and some idiot just nailed it on anyway! I should have taken a pic of the nice even edge before it gets to "Chuckie meets the Texas Chainsaw Massacre." image by susieqilvu, on Flickr
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Post by shastajeff on Mar 8, 2014 16:07:43 GMT -8
:oAre you sure they didn't use a can opener?
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Post by SusieQ on Mar 8, 2014 16:13:46 GMT -8
Before I discovered the chainsaw massacre, I was totally perplexed when I took down my last set of old curtains in preparation for removing the last window, the kitchen window. Why is there no metal trim around it? It is trimmed with wood trim and there is an 1/8" gap all the way around. Is this a standard thing on Compacts? Almost looks like they cut the window too big! All of my other windows have metal trim and fit snugly.
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Post by txoil on Mar 8, 2014 16:30:37 GMT -8
What we have heah is a fail-uh to co=muni=cate. Those gaps are for VENTILATION. Ya gotta have air get in somewheah, donchya?
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Post by SusieQ on Mar 8, 2014 16:34:48 GMT -8
:oAre you sure they didn't use a can opener? You are right, Jeff. A chainsaw would have made a neater cut. I believe it was one of the old style can openers from that era like a P-38.
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Post by SusieQ on Mar 8, 2014 16:37:32 GMT -8
What we have heah is a fail-uh to co=muni=cate. Those gaps are for VENTILATION. Ya gotta have air get in somewheah, donchya? LOL! It was sealed tight. No signs of leaks and the outside looks perfectly normal. There were signs that the PO had put a wide piece of masking tape over it on the top. But that could have been to hold a curtain since the curtain rod holder was broken.
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Post by bigbill on Mar 8, 2014 17:37:41 GMT -8
Most of the above mentioned things were all done in the name of cheap. They didn't match the grooves in the paneling due to increased cost in both material and labor. Trim not fitting close same reason something miss cut but no time or money to correct. Shasta trailers were sold to people for two reasons, they were cheap and they looked ok if you didn't look to close. Cheap is a mean word I should have used inexpensive. Back in the day when motels were $20 to $30 and campsites were $2 to $4 dollars you could justify a eight hundred to a thousand dollar camper fairly easy You just told the spouse that a 2 week/16 day vacation would run 16x30=$480.00 while camping at $3.x16-$48. So honey just two vacations would save us enough to almost pay for the trailer and then we would have it to take the kids way for weekends at the local lake the rest of the time. plus you wouldn't have to carry all the stuff in and out of motels plus all the money we could save on meals fixed at camp instead of eating out. And the answer was lets go buy a Shasta we can afford one of them. Then after a few years many people up graded to a better quality trailer or motor home. When you think about it that was a pretty good argument for buying a Shasta, so Shasta had to keep the price down.
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