54-55 Shasta camper frame off restoration the rebuild begins

Don't plan on anything at this time. My first thought was a bathing suit or it was meant to wash things off if needed. I guess we will see what happens along the way. 

My wife and I are more or less camper virgins and have no experience with what is needed but I thought it would be nice if we also took the dogs and needed to wash them? 

Got the voltage issue resolved, it as the idiot doing the wiring. Wire that said battery meant negative not positive. Live and learn.

Not much to report wife made me spend the day with her, I don't understand her priorities

After some more family stuff I came home and worked:
Got the straps taken off over the insulation - I decided to leave a few of them on in the real bendy areas. I figured it wouldn't hurt anything

Got a board in place for the on demand water heater

Started taking the door apart, I need to watch a video from mobiltec to see how he took it apart and what I should expect to see inside. The one issue I can see is the door was rebuild before.

Forgot that last Thur or Friday I got the blocks laid out on the walls to put up the bunk bed if desired

Now I need to let the new wiring and lights burn in and see if there are any issues and then I can hopefully clean up the wiring again.

Tonight I hope to get the following done:
Get the door apart
Tyvek the camper
Maybe hang the upper pieces of skin
Buff and clean a window or two
Clean up old tape

Things are coming off the list but very very slow now. I gave up trying to get it ready by Friday.

Big day yesterday, I started to put on the metal. My biggest fear was that the cutouts were in the wrong spot since at times I didn't have much to work with from the old wall bases and back corner rot.

It looks like everything will work. I may have to take a bend out here and bend over some metal there and cut here and a trim piece I hope is long enough there to cover but those are few.

So the work went as follows:
Finished taping the tyvek
Polished to top of the front window frame 
Started taking apart the rear window for buffing and then cleaned it with an SOS pad and when I took it to the buffer it shined right up in 1\3 the time

My brother came over after working on his deck all day and we started taking down all the tin and laying it out in the drive way. We then decided on the first piece we wanted to put up and went for it. with a few adjustments we seam to have it in the right spot. 

I think I maybe found something that will help polish this tin can up. SOS pad. I think the trick is to change them out when the blue polish is gone. Will do more experiments and let you know. 

Tonight I plan to start stapling the tin down for good once I make sure everything is right and I make a few cuts for the the water, shower, electricity, and refrigerator vents. I also need to make sure I have all the running light wires were they need to be and see if I need to drill out some pockets in the wood for these lights. Just lots of little details to finish up the tin, and the biggest is cleaning up the old tape and calk and misc. stuff on the the tin and trim.  

20170711_211807 by Tom Ress, on Flickr

I was gonna like your post Tom but then saw the compressor croaked. Sorry about that. Frustrating when you're all ready to build and something doesn't work...

Last night we didn't do date night so I pulled the roof off the ceiling and started cleaning it for the camper. I don't know what the PO did at some point but it looks like they used some type of filler on the seams and on the folded over edge and jrail. I had to get the sander out to get it off. I was about 60% done when my wife came out with that look on her face.

Mom called and she has a leak under her sink, (of course it was the faucet I put in a couple weeks ago) needless to say when my mom calls all other things get put on hold and momma's little boy runs to her help.

I spent the next 2 hours under a sink that you can't get a tool in and find that the rubber seal on the hose I used was ripped. Got to the hardware store 1 minute before they closed and got a new one. I hope it is now fixed.

I got home and finished the sanding and then went to bed. Today I will get roof fastened down. I hate cleaning tar, calk, silicone, putty and old paint off this stuff, it just really slows everything down and you don't feel like you got anything done. OK I will stop whining and get back to work.

Sunday I took it easy, I only got the following done:
-Put on the corner edging for the front and got it ready to take the window
-Cleaned up the extra butyl tape around vent
-Started fitting the back end tin
-finished electrical bench box area