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Post by RinTin on May 3, 2015 6:30:05 GMT -8
Don't think I am suggesting a glassed in bath is your best option. From your previous experience, I am sure you recognize it would be quite a challenging undertaking. Just throwing a different idea out there.
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Post by elewayne on May 3, 2015 7:16:06 GMT -8
Hamlet, just where is the bathroom located in your trailer? From your photos I can't seem to catch the layout at all. I'm placing mine rearward of the entrance door about 5 inches and up over the wheel well. Two ideas, toilet just inside the door and the shower tucked in back over the wheel well. or the shower just inside the door and the toiler up over the wheel well. This would make the toilet pretty high though. I'll start framing in the walls and see if that idea has any practicality. Probably not. Problem is does one want to climb over the toilet to get in the shower. IF only I had a 50' motor home.
Rin Tin, cool idea. On Flippin RVs they once placed a tub under one of the twin beds if I remember correctly. Very nice.It would take up too much space where I'm working though. Wayne
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Post by elewayne on Jul 29, 2019 22:36:36 GMT -8
I’ve been on here on and off for some years, 6 I guess. I started out working on the 1949 Silver Lodger. I picked it up in Colorado in spring 2012 and completely rebuilt the shell using the original skins. Whole new framework. We moved back to Houston dec 2012. I stored the trailer for the next two years while I remodeled our house. May of 2015 I brought it home to restart work. It came with no door and I was starting there. Then I would do a new interior. A couple days later it was stolen. I bought a 23 ft Silver Streak and completely rebuilt the interior. The Lodger has been missing now for 4 years. Last week a guy called me and says he has the trailer. He found my web site with all my build pictures and realized it was mine. So I brought it home again Sunday, wow amazing. It wasn’t even messed up. Looks the same as the day it left my yard, My son Chris and I will finish it up for him. I have pictures on my web site www.silverlodger.com
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Post by mobiltec on Jul 30, 2019 6:12:09 GMT -8
I’ve been on here on and off for some years, 6 I guess. I started out working on the 1949 Silver Lodger. I picked it up in Colorado in spring 2012 and completely rebuilt the shell using the original skins. Whole new framework. We moved back to Houston dec 2012. I stored the trailer for the next two years while I remodeled our house. May of 2015 I brought it home to restart work. It came with no door and I was starting there. Then I would do a new interior. A couple days later it was stolen. I bought a 23 ft Silver Streak and completely rebuilt the interior. The Lodger has been missing now for 4 years. Last week a guy called me and says he has the trailer. He found my web site with all my build pictures and realized it was mine. So I brought it home again Sunday, wow amazing. It wasn’t even messed up. Looks the same as the day it left my yard, My son Chris and I will finish it up for him. I have pictures on my web site www.silverlodger.comThat is so good to hear. Just amazing. Now we can finish our Silver Lodgers together. I'm now working on the street side wall.
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Post by kirkadie on Jul 30, 2019 6:17:58 GMT -8
Wow what great fortune. I remember that traumatic time, and your search for a replacement project. Did you get the story of how the guy ended up with it?
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Post by elewayne on Jul 30, 2019 11:24:10 GMT -8
I saw your site and photos last night. I look forward to seeing more. These are such rear trailers. I don’t think they made that many. The guy who had it and called me went to quite a bit of effort to do so. And I appreciate that. He said he traded an old john boat for it, but didn’t elaborate much. I got the impression it might have changed hands a couple of times. He was hoping to get the boat back. I have him a couple hundred just for calling me. I didn’t ask much though. What does it matter at this point? I’m really surprised to even see it again after 4 years and still just as I left it. Chris, my son is an architect and we will do this project together. It has to sleep 5 as they have 3 little kids. He will sacrifice most of the kitchen and cook outside to free space for sleeping. Kim still wants a toilet and shower. Chris took my old plans last night and did a redraw placing the seating booth in the rear and a pull out gaucho in front with a pull down bunk overhead. We’ll see how this works. With the work I’ve done on this one and the restore on the Silver Streak I’m probably qualified to build one from scratch now. I did make some mistakes on the reskin of this one I’ll have to correct first. It’s lesking.
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Post by elewayne on Jul 30, 2019 14:06:42 GMT -8
I had mine registered in Colorado but over the four years I’ve lost the title and I guess there was a mistake on the police report, the vin on the report does not come up for my name in Colorado. So I’ll have to get a new title as a home built trailer here in Texas. The Thieves took off all my badging and the Colorado vin tag and license plate. I managed to find the recipe for the venal place in Longmont who made my new Silver Lodger decals. So I reordered them. I was wondering how I knew mine was a 49 it’s the rear bed windows mine are the same as all the others not curved like the 48. I wish mine was a 48 because that’s my birth year.
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