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Post by SusieQ on Mar 14, 2014 11:19:00 GMT -8
Cheap is right, Bill. I think mine was made from scraps. Look at this!!! image by susieqilvu, on Flickr
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Post by shastajeff on Mar 14, 2014 11:38:29 GMT -8
Found a weird "quirk" on mine already.....on the rear side of the next to last cross member is a drop down steel bar that appears that it was used for leveling? Anyone else ran into it? Yep, my understanding is it is a stabilizer bar that is lowered to keep the unit from tipping when camping . Just have to remember to lock it in the up position before towing.
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Post by mobiltec on Mar 14, 2014 19:47:01 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. That is common around the kitchen jalousie in all the canned hams that I have worked on. Remember I pretty much stick with the 50s models so Im sure there are some out there with some sort of metal trim.
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Post by mobiltec on Mar 14, 2014 19:49:22 GMT -8
Cheap is right, Bill. I think mine was made from scraps. Look at this!!! image by susieqilvu, on Flickr They do. I'm positive that someone walks around and picks up all the scraps off the floor and hands them to people on Friday afternoon and says make the last one out of this.... This is proven with the rear floor of the 57 I did. It was made of scrap pieces of plywood nothing more than two square feet in size.
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Post by vikx on Mar 14, 2014 20:42:03 GMT -8
Wow, SusieQ, that skin is a mess. That's another place the sticky weatherproofing tape might be beneficial. I've used it for the same type of thing and it works well.
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Post by cowcharge on Mar 21, 2014 18:18:42 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. Maybe it's to make the rain run off the other side.
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Post by mobiltec on Mar 21, 2014 18:22:40 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. Maybe it's to make the rain run off the other side. LOL! Ya that's it... Canned Hams need that side ways run off.
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Post by cowcharge on Mar 21, 2014 18:47:00 GMT -8
It's not the camper. The ground's just higher on that side.
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Post by mobiltec on Mar 21, 2014 20:53:58 GMT -8
It could be because the overhead cabinets were an inch too high on that side...
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Post by coloradoan on Apr 27, 2014 17:20:58 GMT -8
The curb (starboard)side of my 59 Airflyte is bowed out considerably at the wheel well. It's because the wheel well was installed 1" too far out at the factory! They just smashed the wall up around it and left a 1/4" gap between the frame and the cabinet on that side.I'd have to remove the cabinet and rebuild that wall and remove and reinstall the wheel well to fix it. Needless to say, Lucille will have a bow even after I'm done with her
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Post by SusieQ on Apr 27, 2014 17:47:03 GMT -8
The curb (starboard)side of my 59 Airflyte is bowed out considerably at the wheel well. It's because the wheel well was installed 1" too far out at the factory! They just smashed the wall up around it and left a 1/4" gap between the frame and the cabinet on that side.I'd have to remove the cabinet and rebuild that wall and remove and reinstall the wheel well to fix it. Needless to say, Lucille will have a bow even after I'm done with her Thanks for sharing this because I was a little bewildered about a similar problem. The skirting board that goes across my wheel well and comes down and joins the board under the door was joined with a metal plate (so it would flex? and because there was nothing behind it but the wheel well.) Well, it sticks out at the spot where the wheel well ends about a half inch more than where it meets the board under the door. At first, I thought it was because of a screw I had missed that went through the wheel well into the original skirting board but even with it removed, it is not perfectly even. Hmm. Pondering another quirk in the front, too but I think a pic is the only thing that will explain it. My front panel under my window curves at the bottom on one side but on the other, it is nailed and is flat. Another piece I may still replace.
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Post by coloradoan on Apr 27, 2014 20:07:20 GMT -8
IF I figured out how to post photos, here's one of that curb side bow I was talking about:
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Post by SusieQ on Apr 27, 2014 20:15:51 GMT -8
Yes, yes! The wheel well sticks out past the floor. I never saw the bow because mine was rotted out but now I'm trying to figure out how to compensate for it. I mean, I can't really move my floor or push my wheel back! I guess it goes back like it was for me. I don't think anyone will really notice.
Except.... I used a 1x4 instead of two 1x2's and I'm probably going to have to redo it.
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Post by bmxovich on Apr 28, 2014 4:12:14 GMT -8
Gosh, you are all making me paranoid!
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Post by coloradoan on May 20, 2014 21:23:44 GMT -8
Yes, yes! The wheel well sticks out past the floor. I never saw the bow because mine was rotted out but now I'm trying to figure out how to compensate for it. I mean, I can't really move my floor or push my wheel back! I guess it goes back like it was for me. I don't think anyone will really notice. Except.... I used a 1x4 instead of two 1x2's and I'm probably going to have to redo it. Here is what I wound up doing to alleviate some of the "bow" in my curbside wheel well wall (see pics). I removed the portion of the 3/8" plywood that extended down and covered the wheel well (second photo). By doing that I lost 3/8" of the bow. I worried a little that that might compromise the integrity of that section of wall, so I really beefed up the framing, using pocket hole screws and better wood. I replaced the plywood with a sheet of aluminum. It doesn't matter aesthetically because it's the wall behind the icebox and will never be seen. I did this also to try and protect the wall from rotting again. I found a fair amount of rot down low (first photo), not sure if it was from the leaky icebox or the poor sealing done on the bottom of the skin. Anyway, this certainly helped. Not perfectly straight, but reduced the bow enough I don't think anyone will notice but me
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