Water Damaged Wall in Class C
I purchased a 1997/8 Class C Four Winds Dutchman earlier this year. It was a little bit of a fixer upper but it seemed to be in good mechanical shape. After I purchased it and did some climbing on ...
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DrewE wrote:Mike_Ehrmantraut wrote:
I am hoping the square tubing is not electrical, as the manufacturer put a dozen or so brads into it to hold up the original luan.
As I pulled away the dry rotted luan, I see that the square tubing is spot welded to the vertical metal beam. I am still not sure what the metal is made of but the vertical beam is much thinner than the horizontal running square tubing.
If the tubing (either horizontal or vertical) is attractive to a magnet, it's steel. If it isn't, it's aluminum. Those are the only two options for metal that I've heard of for RV wall frame construction. I think the aluminum is more popular, and brads would be more easily driven into it than into steel, so that would be my first guess. It's very doubtful that they would use a mixture of the two in a wall frame, and certain that they couldn't successfully weld the two together.
Is it possible it is galvanized? Considering there was water damage, I did not see any rust.
