Anyone interested in 83 Pace Arrow Tear down and Rebuild?

We are back. Back from the mountains of Virginia, and the cabin my grandfather build for all his descendants.

Back to civilization and internet access. Wahoo!

Was a great vacation, but glad to be able to work on the moho again.

I hope to me a little more regular than I have been lately.

Thanks for hanging in there folks.

fulltimin wrote:

skipsor wrote:
It looks like you are more interested in getting to one million replies that you are finishing you MH.

Aw, gee. I thought I had everyone fooled. 5 years, couple of thousand hours of work, over $11 grand spent, just so I can have bragging rights?

Probably not. Lol.

I can see how one might think that though. Thanks for posting.

Kind of makes my 15 page engine R & R look puny.

Richard

Greetings from Harrisonburg Va. Been on vacation, and finally came off the mountain to have cell and internet access.

I know, vacation from what? Lol.

Plan to be back home towards the end of next week! :)

Going back up the mountain, now.

By the way, the wife and I spend some days last week in West Virginia and Virginia as a small get away for a few days.

Also, just as a side note, some areas of WV and Va do NOT have any cell or internet service.

Tough to post on here without either of them! Lol.

However, we are back now, and about time to get back to work. :)

skipsor wrote:
It looks like you are more interested in getting to one million replies that you are finishing you MH.

Aw, gee. I thought I had everyone fooled. 5 years, couple of thousand hours of work, over $11 grand spent, just so I can have bragging rights?

Probably not. Lol.

I can see how one might think that though. Thanks for posting.

It looks like you are more interested in getting to one million replies that you are finishing you MH.

Finally was to transfer the curve to the plywood, and then make the cuts on the marks I had just made.







And that is how I ended up with this, which is the same pic as above.

In order to end up with a pattern like this for the front of the window at the bottom, required a slightly different approach, since I could not go outside to mark anything.

I wanted to end up with a pattern looking something like this.

Marking a rectangular piece of plywood, at the red circles, gave me a reference point to start the cutting process, but I needed to get a rough reference for the curve at the bottom.







That was accomplished by using what was handy, which in this case was a roll of tape. It's not an exact match to the curve, but it's close enough to get me started, and then I can finish the fine tuning after getting this close.

Switching to the top of the window, and sometimes, you just need a little helping hand to hold things in place.

A nice extra piece of plywood that is sprung into place from the seat to the top of the plywood covering the window works just fine.

Just as the bottom one, just going outside and marking the curve was a snap.

Switching gears just a touch for tonight.

When I wanted to cut some plywood to finish framing around the pilot and copilot windows, I needed to make a pattern.

First step was to mark some plywood to get started. I used a couple of plastic spring clamps to hold this piece in place.







Next was to go outside and and mark with a pencil the curve I needed so I would know where to cut.