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Post by 57 Trotwood on Feb 19, 2024 10:27:32 GMT -8
Jester, what references did you use for the electrical.? Your camper is almost there, looks great!
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Post by jester76 on Feb 19, 2024 20:17:14 GMT -8
Oh my goodness, for one that was in the last couple of years, at first i didnt know where to look other than youtube. I mostly was searching rv wiring and stuff like that. thats where i heard about using the stranded wire such as extention cords, rated of course, now dont go using my advice here, make sure you do the right thing, certainly wouldnt want any trailers burning down. Mobiletech actually has a good few videos out there that deals with wiring. that's where i got the idea to have my running lights on a battery switch to turn them on at night. He's on this forum if you already didnt know that.
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Post by jester76 on Feb 19, 2024 21:01:51 GMT -8
Thanks again John. any advice given is always well received, even if it's something already done and finished up, it's still something to use for future or anyone else who happens upon our post. I actually have a small brake i bought for bending up flashing pieces for work, just wish it had fingers on it, but it did come in handy to fabricate that other trunk door on the trailer. This is the system that I went with when I polished this last spring. It is a renegade compound using four different airway wheels. I understand what you said about starting out without scratches, luckily most of the skin was smooth. I'm wondering if the aluminum was so soft that it caked up to much and the caking actually scratched the surface. I went thru a lot of painstaking care to clean off the aluminum after each grit was done, switch wheels, switch grit, start over, clean off, switch...etc....Unfortunately for me buffing with a dual wheel cyclo is just not going to happen for me. These are the wheels, the buffer, and the compound. What do you think of the build up on this one wheel? I rake often enough I think, I know you shouldn't rake too much or you'll run out of fabric. As a side note, I think it's important to highlight your comment on the cotton cloth. I found out the irritating way that microfiber cloths actually scratch the surface of polished aluminum. Which I should have known because they're basically made out of plastic bottles. 20240219_205040 by Jesse Kunda, on Flickr 20240219_205244 by Jesse Kunda, on Flickr 20240219_205131 by Jesse Kunda, on Flickr
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Post by idaho211 on Feb 20, 2024 7:03:19 GMT -8
Jesse,
Your trailer looks great. Do you have a vendor source for the seat fabric?
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Post by John Palmer on Feb 20, 2024 16:24:55 GMT -8
Jesse, It all looks fine to me. You have more different wheels than I use. I use one "rough cut" wheel for the first pass. Then a soft sewn wheel for the second cut. The soft floppy wheel shown mounted on your red polisher will work in place of the dual action Cyclo Polisher with a T-Shirt cover. It's just different ways to get the dirty job done.
One thing to think about. When they manufacture aluminum sheet, they roll it out. That is, they smash it between large rollers. As a result, it gets microscopic lines embedded into the aluminum, which I call grain, like a wood grain. They call it Mill Finish. Somehow by a mechanical means you need to remove this Grain/Mill Finish "before you begin any polishing" steps. It needs to be taken down to at the very least a 400-grit surface. In the polishing seminars I attended they say it needs to come down to 600/800 grit. In any case whatever the number is, you will save lots of polishing time, and polishing materials just by spending a little more time with a DA sander before you start. If you see a problem area, don't try to fight it with more polishing, just take a step back, pick up the sander and rework the problem area and they proceed forward with your polishing. I have two rotary polishers, one is set up with my first cut wheel, and the second one is set up with my softer wheel. I do not like taking the wheel pads off the polisher because they never seem to get re-centered. I try to leave them on until they are worn all the way down to the metal hubs.
The rule is that for every vintage trailer you polish to a mirror finish, ..........you lose five years of your lifespan.
John Palmer
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Post by jester76 on Feb 20, 2024 18:48:32 GMT -8
Jesse, Your trailer looks great. Do you have a vendor source for the seat fabric? I may be able to look that up, I got it from Joan Fabrics, I can let you know when I know, I'll get a close up of the fabric i found and the pic of the original seats in the other one I saw.
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Post by jester76 on Feb 20, 2024 18:54:04 GMT -8
Thanks John, I don't doubt that about the 5 years, that stuff gets everywhere, I had to do it in my garage on account of my HOA. I wore a full face respirator, but even with that because of where my eyeglasses pass thru the seal and my beard I still had rouge in my nose.
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Post by jester76 on Feb 20, 2024 19:02:35 GMT -8
Hey I just accidentally replied to you in my post. i can look for that fabric source, it was at Joans Fabric.
side note: I checked out your sweet trailer, noticed the finish flaking on the roundover cabinet. Have you ever remedied it? I wonder if yours is shellacked or laquered, I think you may be able to just sand recoat that if you knew what it was.
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