scotty
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Post by scotty on Oct 31, 2016 4:55:53 GMT -8
It has been quite a while since I visited VTT and...we took a deviation from the old trailer by buying a Lance to travel to Yellowstone and back. Great trip, but now the Lance 1985 is for sale. And that's because I finally finished painting the 1964 Holiday Trav'ler Model 17.5 (Holiday Rambler Corp). Trav'lers were the mid-grade of the HR product offering of that company that is still in business today. There are other pics of the camper on VTT if you search my posts, so I won't put up all the things I fixed. We call this trailer Betsy-Rose after the original owners whom we bought it from and who watch our progress with great glee. These ladies are in their nineties and Rose lives right next door; it is so great watching her face as her old camper gets re-born. So, B-R was still connected and under Rose's carport for years and years. Still had problems, frozen pipes, mice damage, mold, etc. you all have similar stories. But B-R was still solid and after fixing all the leaks and damage, we were able to use her for limited camping. But now I completed the paint (acrylic urethane, single stage) and here is the end result. I still have to install the water heater and I have made all the appliances work including the refrig, stove, wall heater, all the lights, etc. The water system was a pressurized tank that was removed years ago. I am now finalizing the water system in a modern way with polypropylene tank, demand pump, anti-freeze valve and a tilt-out fill portal. I used the old brass pressurization and water filler port as the city water hose connection. Anyway, lots of work, looks pretty good. Scotty. [/URL] [/URL] [/URL] [/URL] [/URL] [/URL] [/URL] [/URL] [/URL]
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Post by kirkadie on Oct 31, 2016 4:59:08 GMT -8
Very nice!
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Post by RinTin on Oct 31, 2016 5:36:02 GMT -8
"Anyway, lots of work, looks pretty good." That's the understatement of the day.
Looks amazing, nicely done.
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Post by nccamper on Oct 31, 2016 8:31:25 GMT -8
You did a great job with it.
What brand of paint did you use?
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scotty
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Post by scotty on Oct 31, 2016 8:47:23 GMT -8
Thanks for the nice comments. We live in a very small town in the mountains, so our paint supplier choices are quite limited. Fortunately we do have one and he sells Matrix and also Color by Design. Matrix is base-coat, clear coat and Color by Design is single stage urethane. That's what I am most experienced at spraying, plus I had no interest in having to sand the trailer again between coats. Here's the web link: www.colorbydesigninc.com/ I was very pleased with the paint quality. Sanding that corrugated trailer by hand was onerous to say the least and taping off the stripes was mind boggling...I finally discovered the right side and left side are not symmetrical! I was able to see the original stripes and so I wanted to match what the factory did. Also, the way it was painted at the factory was to prime it and then spray aqua where any aqua was to show. Then they masked the aqua and painted everything white. When done they removed the masking and white with aqua accents appeared. I did the same, except I had to re-prime the white areas because the direct-to-metal primer I used has to be painted within 24 hours. Once I did the blue, I had to wait two days, tape and mask the blue, and then prime and paint it. It took me about two weeks once the trailer was sanded - that took me about 3 weeks!
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Post by kathleenc on Oct 31, 2016 9:43:09 GMT -8
Looks beautiful! And I'm interested in seeing how the bunk supports work - what holds them in the "up" position?
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Post by mel on Oct 31, 2016 10:12:06 GMT -8
Looks amazing, did you do the paint yourself?
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Post by mrmarty51 on Oct 31, 2016 10:30:13 GMT -8
That is very nice.
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Post by vikx on Oct 31, 2016 20:59:05 GMT -8
MEOW.
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Post by ladywendolyn on Nov 1, 2016 6:12:26 GMT -8
Fantastic paint job, I love the pattern. I have a bootie but style trailer too and I am still sorting the pattern. I also love the interior. So original. Its going to look great when finished.
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Post by Hamlet on Nov 1, 2016 7:09:34 GMT -8
Classic and very, very classy.
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Post by bev on Nov 1, 2016 16:14:00 GMT -8
thats not your average paint job!
it really caught my eye. how many layers of clear did you apply?
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Post by poodlecamper on Nov 3, 2016 10:01:25 GMT -8
Breathtaking! Just beautiful,inside and out.
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scotty
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Post by scotty on Nov 8, 2016 5:10:57 GMT -8
Thanks All. Let me see if I remember the questions. I did the paint myself. It is single stage acrylic urethane and that means no clear coat at all. Base coat/clear coat paints need to be sanded between the base and clear...I couldn't bear to think of having to sand the trailer again. Besides, I'm an old guy and I'm most familiar with enamel or even lacquer paints...acrylic urethane is most like that. You mix a hardener in the paint (a catalyst) and spray it on; it dries in an hour or so. On the bed, this is a factory bed. There is a ladder that becomes a guard rail too; I have that. The bed is supported by two pipes and 3 sets of brackets: the rear bracket and its pipe that has holes in it to screw into the bottom of the rear bed frame (so it just rotates and does not come out of its bracket) and the front pipe that is moved from the upper position to the lower position for use as a bed. Head clearance is quite tight, so we use it for storage. The trailer and its paint looks original...because it is! Inside it is original right down to the floor tile; except the cushion covers that Rose made 24 years ago and the curtains that Rose made using the original loops and the blue frill that Sonja made. The whole idea of this is a refurbishment, not a restoration. Some things couldn't be saved though, like the kitchen drawers that I entirely made to match the mouse chewed originals. (there's an article in VTT on how I matched the stain.) I had stickers and emblems made to replicate the originals. Betsy-Rose is in honor of the two ladies. The emblems are hard plastic and the sticker on the front roof is a sticker. And I decided to move the spare tire to the right so it doesn't block the emblem and I'll put a small Betsy-Rose sticker on the bootie hatch also. Of course, when I moved the spare tire carrier, the bumper underneath was pitted from rust. I cleaned and applied bondo, primed it and will paint it today. [/URL] [/URL] [/URL] [/URL] [/URL] [/URL]
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Post by scotty on Nov 8, 2016 5:20:34 GMT -8
Oops! I didn't mean to say the paint is original!! It is an original paint scheme. In our case Betsy-Rose did not have the blue around the windows between the upper and lower zig zags...she was just white there with the blue stripes that I painted over. The colors are an exact match to original. By painting the blue around the windows was a common factory scheme - in fact was on the front page of the brochure in 1964 - and it saved me an entire gallon of white at $145 per gallon! I needed blue anyway, and an extra quart of blue is less than a gallon of white. Besides, the blue is so striking surrounding the windows and ROSE told me to paint it that way!!
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